The Queen of Air and Darkness is the title of T.H. White’s second novel of his Once and Future King series. In the Star Wars universe, the Queen of Air and Darkness is a sabacc face card that possesses a value of negative two. There was a request on the Star Wars Artists’ Guild by one “Lord Cygnus” of a starship in his Star Wars RPG campaign named The Queen of Air and Darkness which I picked up. The ship is a heavily modified Corellian Engineering Corps YV-545 light freighter and this is how it turned out after about 90 minutes of work: Here’s the original request thread and here’s the final image on SWAG.
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I wish there was one book for every Corellian light freighter like this
A long time ago in
a galaxy far far away…
Irfan’s Imperial Entanglements
So the other day, Irfan was in a blaster shootout with some Imperials – perhaps CompForce troopers.
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A Squad of Clones Plus Change
These are illustrations for pregen characters for a Star Wars Saga game to be run by Gary Astleford at Totalcon 2012. The one in Massachusetts, not the one on Commenor. Register quick if you want to get in on the clone action.
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Revisit: The Vacation is Over
After half a day of house cleaning, I discovered a long lost stash of old artwork. So I thought I’d post some of them on the blog and link to their final versions elsewhere (or on this blog itself if available.) Here are pencils for the artwork for “The Vacation Is Over” piece for the SWAG Member Theme Art Contest from 2006. Click here for the original blog post featuring the final artwork, which includes sparks.
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Holy Crap! Star Wars DVD to Blu-Ray Comparisons!
IT’S AN OUTRAGE! Star Wars: The Complete Saga blu-ray set has been released and I have compiled a comparison of five screenshots between the DVD and its corresponding scene in the Blu-ray version. In each image, the DVD version is the top half and the Blu-ray the bottom half. Here follows a commentary on the above-mentioned screenshots. The Opening Crawl As you can see, the opening crawl in the DVD when viewed in Blu-ray looks so much worse. The blackness of space seems to have been greyed out and smudged in a shape that could be a mountain. Seriously? Someone thought a mountain would look good in space? Even the text font has been changed, perhaps to accommodate extra details about some “Purple Death”, which I believe refers to General Tagge’s underpants. The Tatooine Desert The picture quality is so bad after a transfer to 1080p that some of the […]
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And Then Some SWAG Character Requests
It’s the couple of days lull before I leave town for Eid-ul-Fitr vacation at the in-laws, so I had some free time to take on some Star Wars Artists’ Guild requests. Here are three character requests I picked up. I used a new Copicmarker Ciao ink brush I just purchased for their line art. Click on their individual links to read their request threads at the forums: Kar’on Quinch Smuggler as requested by vinnie3. *** J’zzzt the Hutt A Jedi Hutt as requested by Viscious the Jester. *** Doctor Adram Zanedi A Republic Military officer and a physician during the Mandalorian Wars, requested by Jalaila Tarin.
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The Great Nerd Archaeological Dig of Sitiawan
Earlier this month, we went back to my hometown of Sitiawan where I dug up my old stuff in my cupboard and wardrobe, then posted them on Google+. Here is a compilation of the posts, along with further elaboration, as well as a new photo near the end. Ancient cache of geekery unearthed at my parents’ house included a single Bill Mantlo / Gil Kane’s Micronauts comic. I’m sure there was another where the ‘Nauts battled a gentleman by the name of Professor Prometheus – at least on the cover. I don’t remember much of what’s inside. I found a pair of old Dazzler comics – featuring the mutant disco performer who transduced sound to light – still readable with their pages still intact. Several years later, she would be a member of the X-Men. I bought the West End Games’ Star Wars RPG module titled Crisis on Cloud […]
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SWD6: The Rancid Putrefaction of a Cosmic Caterwauling Cabal
Last Sunday, I ran a Star Wars RPG D6 game for the GOKL group. It started out as a one-shot, but who knows; the tale might continue another time. The Rancid Putrefaction of a Cosmic Caterwauling Cabal Episode 312: All Heaven Broke Loose Long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, aboard the space station Kwenn that served as deep space commerce and transport hub, there was a Rebel cell, who sat all day for days in a spacer’s cantina named The Drunken Dewback, waiting for their first mission. Then one day the young bartender gestured them to the bar. She told them to go to Anchorhead on Tatooine where they will be given an important mission briefing. Chapter One – We’re So Starving The Rebel cell consisted of Avril Mantessa, Pew Pew and Tyvokka. Avril was a young Jedi who had been cloistered away and trained by her […]
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Mithius Cragmoore
Commissioned by the guys at Wicked North Games for their Star Wars RPG game group, Mithius Cragmoore was born on Coruscant to an Imperial Admiral and is now a bounty hunter with the House Benelex. He wields a pulse rifle, a blade and wears a stun cloak. Inked and painted on paper, the original artwork was mailed to them, a first for me as a freelance illustrator. Thanks for the commission, guys. It was great to have illustrated this character. Click here for a larger image on DeviantArt.
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Irfan Takes A Train To The Mall
One activity Irfan and I did this school holiday was to take the Light Rail Transit (LRT), the city-wide train network. He rarely gets to ride on it, since we drive everywhere which is sometimes cheaper depending on the situation. So we thought we’d go to the Mall. We set forth to the station after lunch and soon train came along. The Mall is a mall that is named “The Mall”. It’s like a boy who’s named “The Boy”, or a building that’s named “The Building”. The Parkson department store used to have a good bookstore up at the second floor. I used to browse there while waiting for the intercity bus. (The Putra Bus Station is just across the street.) We went to pick up some art supplies at the Big Bookstore, where Irfan bought this book: Later, we went to the Parkson’s toy section to check out the […]
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Darth Bill Adama?
A weird moment for Admiral William Adama of the Battlestar Galactica (complete with ominous shadow outline) when he suddenly spouts lines from The Empire Strikes Back at his son Lee. What does he say, and how does Lee reply? Click here to find out and to view a larger version of the artwork.
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McFly, Trandoshan Smuggler
Here’s a quick and dirty Star Wars Artists’ Guild request I picked up: A Trandoshan smuggler named McFly! Yes, the life preserver jacket is no accident. Yes, he is punching Darth Vader.
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Artoo-Detoo: Generations
The little Artoo is Irfan’s which was purchased from Amcorp Mall last year. The big Artoo was bought for me by my grandfather 30 years ago or thereabouts. How time flies.
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A Reluctant Jedi
Remember Admiral Tarn Majint from a couple of posts ago? Here’s his daughter Qualtis Majint – with her blue robes and her blue-bladed lightsabre – who definitely does not resemble Bill Nighy in any way. Like any self-respecting character in any Star Wars RPG campaign, she loves thermal detonators. A SWAG request by Jan Tolbara for his wife’s RPG character on her birthday. Made with GIMP. Click here to view (and download) a larger image.
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Star Wars Crossover
There’s a breach in the space-time continuum and strange, giant robotic entities fly through and bring their own war into the Galactic Republic! However, the creatures look somewhat familiar… eerily familiar. One faction allies itself with the Republic while another with the Separatists. With the sudden inclusion of powerful sapient giant transforming mechanical life-forms, the Clone Wars is taken to the next level!
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A Kubaz Majordomo
Here’s another SWAG request I picked up. Derf requested a Kubaz majordomo character by the name of Rbarindan, with “many friends and relations in low places”. His species is the same as Garindan, the spy who shadowed Luke, Ben and the droids in Mos Eisley on their way to the Millennium Falcon in the first Star Wars movie. Click here and hit the image there to see (or download) a larger version.
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