Star Wars #17 Cover - Step by Step Part 1 Line Art

The cover art for Star Wars #17 - out now from Marvel Comics, Jason Aaron and Leinil Yu.

See how we made the Line Art for it!

So Luke piloting the Millennium Falcon - pretty good idea just tricky getting a good two shot of Han and Luke and that's still dynamic for a Marvel Comics cover.

My editors on this were Heather Antos and Jordan White at Marvel and of course the fine folks at Lucasfilm.

Roughs were drawn at 2" x 3" in my sketchbook using Warm Grey Copics then colored in Photoshop CS3.

Initial Rough in with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil...

Pencils drawn in Light Blue and HB lead on 12 x 18 Bristol Board

Of course, I drew Luke with the Ceremonial Jacket on!

SO... what does the inside of the Millennium Falcon look like?

A look at my desk while drawing this...

Finished Pencils

Detail

Rachel Dodson's inks

Rachel inks over my pencils with a Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic Ink

Larger than life detail...

Now, scan in and prep in Photoshop...

for the colors...

Next time!

TD