A simple doodle that grew and grew into a time-suckingly-large project. Still, it was a lot of fun.
I'm a huge fan of the New Jedi Order series, and love the Vong as a group of villains - their wild living armor and weapons make for some great visuals. Problem is, I've virtually never seen them depicted as awesomely as I imagined them while reading. This was my attempt to rectify that.
Also, the new Legacy novel series blows hard, and was such a horrific dissapointment that it's nice to look back on the NJO and remember my hope for how things could have been. As a bonus, Luke Skywalker is easily one of my favorite characters in all fiction, so you can't go wrong, there.
nice man, nice! i like especially the way you've captured luke's older face.
gotta be honest though, the NJO series was completely...uh, bad to me. It had little original ideas and i could read 'money grab' between each line. Doesn't matter though - the picture looks great.
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Yeah, I get that a lot from some SW fans. With some of the NJO books, I can feel you. But all the big books (Vector Prime, Star by Star, Destiny's Way and Unifying Force) were fantastic, for my money. And Traitor was the best SW novel I've ever read.
I guess it all comes down to whether or not you can really like the Vong, and how morally ambiguous you like your SW to be. Those were the two biggest complaints I heard - the YV were too unoriginal/too 'Un-Star Wars' and that there was too much grey area in the Force, now, and it should be more black and white. I oversimplify the arguments, because I wholly dissagree with them, but to each their own.
Still, bad as some thought the NJO was, can we all agree that Legacy is crap? I mean, the new comics are kind of interesting, but the LotF novels... *shudder*
Thanks everybody for the kind words. I'm a tremendous Wars-geek, and this was a really fun piece to do. I'm glad it's struck a chord with people, and glad that fans can appreciate my take on the characters.
Well I don't read the EU but I must say that I do like this illustration a lot. Anything showing Luke kickin' some bad guy butt is cool with me. These Vong guys put me in mind of HR Giger's Alien designs.
And what's wrong with the Force having gray areas? I think we saw what happen to the Jedi when they stuck with the simple black and white approach to that mystical energy field.
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wow a really nice action piece here, I love your take on an older Luke too. Your right about the NJO though, there never was much art about it I thought lived up to expectations either. this is stunning
When did it suddenly become cool to hate everything? It's a growing problem, especially in the entertainment world, and no one benefits from an increasingly hard to please, pessimistic audience.
A Special Collection of photographs i found this month that still haunts my mind. Show them some love There are always some i can`t include due to space, i try to make the features under 50 deviations to give them better exposure
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Whoa, chill bro... You know you can\'t raise your voice like that when the lion\'s here.
gotta be honest though, the NJO series was completely...uh, bad to me. It had little original ideas and i could read 'money grab' between each line. Doesn't matter though - the picture looks great.
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I guess it all comes down to whether or not you can really like the Vong, and how morally ambiguous you like your SW to be. Those were the two biggest complaints I heard - the YV were too unoriginal/too 'Un-Star Wars' and that there was too much grey area in the Force, now, and it should be more black and white. I oversimplify the arguments, because I wholly dissagree with them, but to each their own.
Still, bad as some thought the NJO was, can we all agree that Legacy is crap? I mean, the new comics are kind of interesting, but the LotF novels... *shudder*
You're the man, dude! Best NJO fanart I've EVER seen!
I hope to see more Star Wars art from you... any chance you are taking requests (including Vong, of course
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realy the best NJO-FanArt so far....
PS: thx corran for the link
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And what's wrong with the Force having gray areas? I think we saw what happen to the Jedi when they stuck with the simple black and white approach to that mystical energy field.
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