I finished the colors for my next Droids custom. All systems are go for production this weekend! Here's how it went down. First I worked on the Sarlacc Pit:
Next I worked on Klaatu himself.
What else was left? The Skiff, obviously!
For the sky, I used one of my photos when i visited Tunisia as a reference. I know it's not Death Valley... but it is still Tatooine!
And the final thing was the sand... which we hate. It gets everywhere...
All that's left is to drop it onto my template and start printing. Check back Monday for confirmation when they'll go live.
Last week I shared the first 2/3 of the photos I took during my tour of Lucasfilm Headquarters at the Presidio in San Francisco. So before you read any of this, you should really check those out if you haven't already. So where were we? Oh yeah, we had ...
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I completed blocking out the base colors for my Droids Klaatu Skiff. It's a bit of a tedious process, but it's gotta get done. Here's a quick display of the process (and progress):
I was looking at the calendar, and I saw next week the Steelers play Thursday night instead of Sunday, which means my weekend of October 3rd & 4ths is completely wide open. So I'm planning to finish the colors before the end of next week so I can spend that time assembling these. I love it when a plan comes together!
So about a year ago I learned I was gonna be in the San Francisco area for a collector get-together. This would be my first ever visit to "NoCal" and it quickly dawned on me it'd be a perfect opportunity to finally visit Lucasfilm headquarters at the Presidio. I've seen ...
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One week ago today I got to do something truly incredible. I visited the Lucasfilm headquarters at the Presidio in San Francisco.
I was joined by a few friends from the Pennsylvania Star Wars Collecting Society for a tour. It was unreal - being in the actual place where Star Wars is made. Much to my surprise our guide told us we were welcome to take as many photos as we wanted... just no video. So I ended up taking over 200 photos.
I still need to go about processing those photos, but I wanted to start by sharing this one. I have a feeling this might be somehow important in an upcoming Star Wars project...
I hope to post a full review next week if I'm able to get it all together.
It's been a super crazy busy couple weeks, but I did find a few moments to finish the inks on my KS:
It really turned out spectacular (if I do say so myself). I also scanned it in, and I'm ready to begin cleaning up the inks. I do this by making a new "black lines" layer in Photoshop then giving it an 8-pixel red stroke. This makes all the stray specks really obvious and easy to erase.
Check back next week for some colors!
Over the weekend I finished penciling my Klaatu Skiff.
As you can see, I used a Vintage Kenner Skiff to fill out the background. I think it turned out really nicely. With that complete, last night after work I sat down and began inking.
I wasn't super happy with the way my ink flowed while drawing my last Droids custom, so I tried watering down the ink quite a bit before I began. That ended up being a very smart decision, cuz the inking went' fantastic.
Inking stuff like tentacles is right in my wheelhouse. I'd say it's just super easy because they're alien rather than real and you can get away with a lot, but whatever the reason mine always look great!
I finished the session working on the teeth in the Sarlacc as well as some of the walls of the pit. I didn't finish completely, but what's done I'm super happy with!
I'm about to head away on vacation for a week, so I won't have any progress to share next Wednesday. So stop back in a couple weeks to see the finished inks and hopefully a lot of color.
This week we look at the second Icelandic beer I grabbed during my visit to Shangy's in Emmaus, PA... a Scottish ale called Wee Heavy.
The can notes it's brewed with Angelica root, which is something I'd never heard of. After looking it up, I discovered ...
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Much to my own surprise I began working on my next Droids Custom over the weekend. The last batch of bubbles I have in-hand are for Klaatu Skiff Guard. And I was faced with a dilemma. I already did a Klaatu custom, (which is honestly among my favorites), and that Klaatu was depicted on a skiff, so I couldn't do that again. So I struggled for a while with what other thing this new Klaatu could be doing.
I was initially playing with having him on the deck of the Khetanna. But I couldn't land on anything interesting for him to be doing there. Manning the huge cannon? Shooting Luke's hand? None of that really excited me. Then out of the blue it hit me...
So I began by roughing out the pose. Then I refined it...
Happy, I began adding details.
That went pretty well, and so here is the art as it stands now:
I love that's it's very dynamic. Klaatu's face is a bit of a pain to draw because it has so much detail, but I'll get there. Now I just need to decide exactly what I want in the background. I have a couple ideas in my head. Check back next week to see where I go with it!
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