Stormtroopers on Death Star

Media = Adobe Illustrator CS4

If you enjoyed this drawing, I have several other Star Wars drawings in my DA gallery (and a few at my graphic design site); here is the link to my dA Star Wars gallery:

My Star Wars Gallery

Some of my other Star Wars art:

  

   

Information about this drawing:

Tools/features used within Illustrator:
Pen tool; gradient mesh; regular gradient; pathfinder (divide); transparency panel; Illustrator's gaussian blur filter (mostly on the pink smoke stuff on the left)

Edit. I see one or two minor areas that might be mistakes. (For example, after looking at this again, I might go in and add a second (darker shadow) under the left guy's mask, and maybe a bit of color there. So I might fix a few of those things and upload a corrected version.)

I am a long time Star Wars fan who'd like to see more old school (as in the original trilogy) Star Wars art on deviant Art.

One of the reasons I chose this particular image to draw is that my older sister, when she was a teenager, drew the same picture (this was quite some time ago).

I remember when I was a kid watching her create a stormtrooper poster using the same reference image.

She used a pencil to sketch the image out on a cheap white poster board then colored it in with water color paint. (Back at that time, there weren't many Star Wars posters available, so she made her own.)

So this image is doubly nostalgic for me.

Reference image

I do have other Star Wars art in my gallery, if you would like to take a look:

Stormtrooper Dew Back Patrol

Chewbacca and Han Solo

Princess Leia on Yavin

Biker Scouts on Endor

"Live Trace" was Not used in or on any part of the drawing


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