Star Wars Art Swap

Recently, it came to my attention that friends of mine had a pair of budding Star Wars fans running around their house. These Star Wars fans also liked to draw, a winning combination in my book! Happy to inspire the next generation of Star Wars enthusiasts and to encourage artistic endeavors I sent them a pair of drawings...

Yoda for Nolan

5 x 5

colored pencil on paper

© 2014 Christopher Burdett

Jawa for Parker

5 x 5

colored pencil on paper

© 2014 Christopher Burdett

Little did I know at the time that my gift would be reciprocated! Right before leaving for Gen Con a package arrived in the mail with six outstanding drawings. Nolan wanted to thank me for my drawings by sending me some of his own and I am thrilled to receive them! I wanted to share his work you, here are Nolan's Star Wars drawings...

Return of the Jedi - Battle at the Pit Carkoon

By Nolan

Jar Jar Bink

By Nolan

Darth Vader and a Stormtrooper

By Nolan

Stormtrooper

By Nolan

Angry Birds Star Wars

By Nolan

Even more Angry Birds Star Wars

By Nolan

While I wish I could display them all... 

(the six drawings are on three sheets of paper - front and back)

... I have added my favorite to my office wall!

That is all for another exciting week on the blog, see you back here on Tuesday, since Monday is a holiday in these parts! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Jawa... UTINNI!

UTINNI! Today I have for you a new traditionally painted Star Wars piece. This time around it is a small portrait of a Jawa. As with Chief Chirpa, I wanted to work a bit smaller for this one, see how quickly I could finish it and try out some new materials on it. I present you with a very small Jawa...

"Jawa"

  4 x 4

acrylic, pencil, and gouache on board
Original - SOLD

© 2014 Christopher Burdett

As with my other Star Wars piece I have been doing for myself the initial drawing is much larger then the final painting... this time even more so. The Jawa drawing is a square on 9 x 12 paper. Since I knew it was going to end up so much smaller I decided to work a little looser and quicker on the drawing. Once it was shrunk down to 4 x 4 it really tightened up and was perfect for the painting. Here is how the drawing turned out...

Jawa - Drawing

9 x 12

Pencil on paper

© 2014 Christopher Burdett

I was working very quickly on this one, but still managed to get some images of it along the way. Here is the Jawa coming together in paint form... more or less...

All images © 2014 Christopher Burdett

Here is another handy dandy animated gif of all those images so you can look at them all at once...

Jawa - Process progression

As an added bonus, here is a little video to go with a little Jawa. This was originally posted up on Instagram (where I like to post little videos of me working and photos of my drawings while I am working on them). You can see my skills of using a pencil to... um... paint? It is still painting when I use a pencil, right?

Adding some detail at the end... RAWR!

That is all for another exciting Monday on the blog, see you back here on Wednesday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com