You'll see from my gallery here that I'm working to put together a portfolio of Star Wars art. It's fair to say that there's no shortage of incredibly talented Star Wars artists out there - so to try to make my work stand out I keep challenging myself to create drawings that I hope people will find interesting and original.

This one might seem a bit wacky - but Yoda is actually closely related to Kermit - so I've imagined a scene where Kermit steps up and confronts the Emperor!

Kermit doesn't have many facial expressions - so I thought it would be funny if the Emperor's force lightning didn't hurt Kermit - just tickled him a bit - so he could keep his usual wide-mouthed look. Even if it does hurt him a little - I'm sure Miss Piggy will show up soon to give the Emperor a piece of her mind and save her frog

This is an original depiction of George Lucas's and Jim Henson's creations - drawn in Photoshop using a Wacom pad.

Hope you like!

As per the request of quite a few people, this pic came into being! It started at as this sketch: from my 366 challenge, but it grew into something so much more! (Plus I've worked my new colouring method into this pic and I'm MUCH happier now!)

Firstly, I changed the trooper from Rex to Commander Cody, who is still one of the most butt-kicking clones in the Star Wars universe (after 32 from Republic Commando, of course!) and I also wanted to draw the adapted Clone Trooper armour design that started to look more like the Storm Trooper Armour from the original SW trilogy. This also made me realise that I really, REALLY like drawing clone troopers! This is the third pic I've done that they've featured in!

As I mentioned in the sketch, I really like young Obi Wan, so I drew the original as an homage. This time round I actually reference Ewan McGregor and got the much more awesome nose out of it. I still changed his hairstyle, because that middle-parting is so 90's...

Oooh, and I really liked how Yoda turned out!

Who's scruffy lookin?

UPDATE: Now available as a print! [link]

From one bucket head to another....

This is an illustration I did to accompany a blog post I wrote about the Disney acquisition of LucasFilm: [link]

I did this really fast, but happy with how it turned out. May go back and add some further shading, etc.

The Clone Wars is a very cool cartoon. I highly recommend it! Am I right in thinking that Ahsoka is a pretty popular character?

I thought that this drawing of her would make a good addition to my portfolio. The idea for this composition was to give a sense of false perspective and hopefully create something a little bit different from other depictions of the character. I went for more of a 'pin-up' look instead of copying the cartoon look and I'm pretty pleased with it!

This is an original depiction of George Lucas's character - drawn in Photoshop using a Wacom pad. This is an optimised version of the original - which is 600dpi.

The character of Boba Fett was first conceived as a kind of 'super' Stormtrooper - and initiallly had a white outfit. Even though the white armour never made it to the movie I thought that would be a cool look to draw.

What I've done here is mix elements of Jango Fett's Mandalorian outfit with a Clone Trooper armour in an attempt to come up with a plausible reason for the armour to be white.

For the purpose of this picture... Jango is testing out the standard clone armour - but insisted on wearing his own superior body suit and helmet to protect his vital organs. He knew that the clone armour was being mass-produced cheaply and he didn't want to get killed on account of a test! It's a stretch I know!

If you've got a better excuse for why he might be wearing a white outfit - let's hear it!

This is an entirely original depiction of George Lucas's characters. First drawn with pencil then scanned and coloured in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.

Hope you like!

Now that George Lucas has (sadly) decided to retire from movie directing, I'm expecting him to call me up to ask me to take over on the next Star Wars movie/tv series.

My first pitch will be this... Darth Maul fighting Aliens! I thought it would be a very cool contest - and I also wanted to draw Darth Maul because of the interest in the 3D release of The Phantom Menace.

The idea is that this was an initiation test that Darth Sidious set for Maul during his training.

This took a lot of hard work - but I'm really, really pleased with how it turned out and I think it's my best work yet!

It's an entirely original depiction of George Lucas's and HR Giger's characters and was drawn first in pencil, then scanned and coloured in Photoshop using a Wacom pad.

This is a reduced resolution version of the original which is 600dpi.

Hope you like!

I had an idea that Jabba's Rancor would sometimes go for an evening stroll around Tatooine - and on this occasion he found an AT-AT to play with. (Perhaps the AT-AT was there as part of the deployment sent to look for the two droids at the start of 'A New Hope'?)

When I originally envisaged this piece I thought I would draw it from a low angle - looking up at the Rancor climbing up the AT-AT's leg. But I decided that changing the angle so that the viewer can see the Imperial troops would be a good idea to add some more drama and humour. I'm glad I made the change - although it meant a lot more work drawing the characters - as well as trying to imagine what the roof of an AT-AT might look like if it was scrunched up!?

The first driver is so terrified he's about to jump straight off the top of the AT-AT to avoid being eaten - saying "I'm outta here!". The other driver's saying "Hold up - wait for me" - while the Commander won't abandon his post and is angrily shouting at the Rancor: "You there, stop that!"

This is an entirely original depiction of George Lucas's characters - drawn in Photoshop using a Wacom pad. I put a huge amount of effort into this - and I hope that comes across even in this low-res version (the original is 600dpi).

Hope you like!

Another star wars illustration done in the same style as my bantha ([link]), this time featuring a Jawa. This guy is in charge of fixing and maintaining the various droids the clan collects to sell. He's even got a modified buzz droid to help with his repairs.

Linework for this guy was done using the Photoshop pen tool and then turned into a vector via Illustrator's live trace. Colours were done using a mix of photoshop's pen tool, gradient tool and brushes.

Jawas are copyright (c) Lucasfilm

Don't be afraid - no actual Stormtroopers were harmed in the making of this picture!

I was contacted by - who asked whether I'd be interested in drawing a picture for his Left 4 Dead 2 Mod which he's calling ZombieTroopers. He said it would be based on the book Deadtroopers and feature Boba Fett, Aurra Sing, IG-88 and Bossk - all battling some Zombie Stormtroopers in a destroyed city that looks like Corusant.
(Find out more at: [link] )

I liked the idea very much (I like drawing Stormtroopers - even if they are all ickey and bitey) - so I took the brief and turned out what you see here!

I originally drew this in pencil, then scanned it and coloured it in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet. This is a web-optimised version of the image (it is a 100mb bitmap at 600dpi!)

Hope you like it... and please don't have nightmares!