#The Art of Star Wars

[starwarsbookclub]

BACKGROUND + HEAVY MANDO | page 57 & 120 | Artist: Brian Matyas The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian by Phil Szostak

[cabbagege]

I saw the concepts on her outfit and...Ah

Left some original things

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

APPARENTLY, CHEWIE'S CREATION WASN'T AS ORIGINAL AS WE'VE ALL BEEN LED TO BELIEVE.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on cover art to "ANALOG" science fiction magazine (cover dated July 1975), and the big, furry, ape/dog-like beings that inspired Chewbacca's final look. Artwork by John Schoenherr.

PIC(S) #2, 3, & 4 INFO: John Schoenherr's creature compared with Ralph McQuarries redesign of Chewbacca, from "The Art of STAR WARS," page 67.

OVERVIEW: "Enter John Schoenherr Stage Right:

RALPH MCQUARRIE: "George also gave me a drawing he liked from a 1930s illustrator of science fiction that showed a big, apelike, furry beast with a row of female breasts down its chest. So I took the breasts off and added a bandolier and ammunition and weapons, and changed its face so it looked somewhat more like the final character, and I left it at that."

As is obvious from the following side-by-side comparison, the illustration McQuarrie is referring to wasn’t decades old, but months, being none other than this one by "Dune" legend John Schoenherr, from the July 1975 issue of "Analog."

Hmmm.

The drawing, as the cover, was for a Hugo-nominated novelette by George R.R. Martin which: "[…] deals with the “realities of a very rigid society conflicting with what looks like a pushover primitive tribal society; and we find out where the strength really lies. It’s called "And Seven Times Never Kill Man" (drawing its title from a "Jungle Book" poem by Rudyard Kipling).” A story which in itself is pretty familiar to the nature vs machine conflict surfaced in the early scripts and again in "Return of the Jedi" (although that's a theme so common by then that it's hard to say that this particular story had any explicit influence on 1977's "STAR WARS.""

-- KITBASHED (blogspot)

Source: https://kitbashed.com/blog/chewbacca.

[derickbatista31]

Cloned to war

[judgingbooksbycovers]

The Art of Star Wars: The High Republic (Volume One)

By Kristin Baver.

[eggdrawsthings]

probably waiting for Padme and Luke at the spaceport or sth ajshdgkasd

[swedenis-h]

Idk how they’re getting outta this one (X)

[mroddmod]

one of the very few to show the batch kindness back on kamino

[laurenillustrated]

May the 4th be with you ⭐️

[starwarsbookclub]

The Art of Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Frank Parisi and Gary Scheppke Chapter Artists: Part Four - Matt Gaser and Jackson Sze

[cherriielle]

the negotiator ⭐

[fonmythenmetz]

[mikartisa]

(through tears) WHAT IF THEY IDK. HAD A NICE LITTLE CHAT OR SOMETHING

[vaszametili]

obiwan leades anakin to the council 21 BBY holophoto in color

[eggdrawsthings]

a duet in a galaxy far, far away

[swedenis-h]

To be loved is to be changed