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A recent request for a portfolio has had me scanning my project folders for media to submit. As such, I fell upon this project that I largely forgot about. The image is a depiction of an Imperial Biker Scout, a variety of the Stormtrooper that appears in the Richard Marquand film Return of the Jedi. This was a scan of my sketchbook progress that I was performing during breaks at the factory. The task of illustrating this character was very daunting, especially since my window for working on it was limited to less-than-fifteen-minute breaks; I truly hate that factory.
My reason for selecting this character was because the Biker was one of my favorite costume designs from the Star Wars films. Drawing the costume has given me a greater sense of what the costume looks like as it forces me to concentrate on its intricacies of it. A particular part of this illustration that was giving me much trouble was the elaborate nature of Biker's lower torso.
I have limited resources at my disposal and would have enjoyed seeing what a Biker costume looks like up close. There was a special display at the Toledo Museum featuring the Smithsonian's Star Wars exhibit. One exhibit was indeed a life-size Speeder Bike with a costumed mannequin. However, it was behind glass.
My plans with this project are dubious at this time. I might have originally planned on lightboxing the sketch and doing a higher quality rendering in graphites. It was probably my dissatisfaction with my handling of this character's intricate shapes that probably originally threw me off this project.
Again, thank you for the visit.
PROJECT #11
A recent request for a portfolio has had me scanning my project folders for media to submit. As such, I fell upon this project that I largely forgot about. The image is a depiction of an Imperial Biker Scout, a variety of the Stormtrooper that appears in the Richard Marquand film Return of the Jedi. This was a scan of my sketchbook progress that I was performing during breaks at the factory. The task of illustrating this character was very daunting, especially since my window for working on it was limited to less-than-fifteen-minute breaks; I truly hate that factory.
My reason for selecting this character was because the Biker was one of my favorite costume designs from the Star Wars films. Drawing the costume has given me a greater sense of what the costume looks like as it forces me to concentrate on its intricacies of it. A particular part of this illustration that was giving me much trouble was the elaborate nature of Biker's lower torso.
I have limited resources at my disposal and would have enjoyed seeing what a Biker costume looks like up close. There was a special display at the Toledo Museum featuring the Smithsonian's Star Wars exhibit. One exhibit was indeed a life-size Speeder Bike with a costumed mannequin. However, it was behind glass.
My plans with this project are dubious at this time. I might have originally planned on lightboxing the sketch and doing a higher quality rendering in graphites. It was probably my dissatisfaction with my handling of this character's intricate shapes that probably originally threw me off this project.
Again, thank you for the visit.
PROJECT #11
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fantasy
Species Mammal (Other)
Gender Male
Size 800 x 506px
File Size 231.1 kB
Nice work!!! I always liked the speeder bike armor over the run-of-the-mill Stormtrooper's... It was a slimmed down, faster looking piece of gear... You did a nice job in capturing the scene. Like the way the right arm and blaster is fading into the BG...
Are you thinking of making a full-sized, wearable set?
Cap
Are you thinking of making a full-sized, wearable set?
Cap
Make my own armor? What do I look like, some sort of Star Wars nerd?
It's somewhat funny you say that because it does remind me of how I wanted my own armor when I was a kid growing up with the Trilogy. My mother's substitution was a bandana tied over my face and telling me that I looked just like one of those stormtroopers. To be fair, if I could buy a replica of one of those helmets, I'm sure it would be just as cheap and shoddy as a bandana.
Thanks for the complements on the scene. If the arm is fading in the background, I have to say that it's unintentional as this was only sketch quality. However, I'm glad you brought that up because it reminded of an article on perspective that I read in The Artist's Magazine.
Thanks for visiting!
It's somewhat funny you say that because it does remind me of how I wanted my own armor when I was a kid growing up with the Trilogy. My mother's substitution was a bandana tied over my face and telling me that I looked just like one of those stormtroopers. To be fair, if I could buy a replica of one of those helmets, I'm sure it would be just as cheap and shoddy as a bandana.
Thanks for the complements on the scene. If the arm is fading in the background, I have to say that it's unintentional as this was only sketch quality. However, I'm glad you brought that up because it reminded of an article on perspective that I read in The Artist's Magazine.
Thanks for visiting!
Nah, making a set of SW armor is no more nerdy than cosplaying when you think about it... It's when you start identifying with the character, be it a stormtrooper or Spock or Ichigo Kurosaki or whatever that you've purchased a one-way ticket to Nerdsville.
I remember the one and only Star Trek convention I went to in Pittsburgh PA. I was riding the elevator with a teenager dressed as a Vulcan Science Officer ala Spock. I started talking to him, where are you from, how he liked the con, etc. and he proceeded to tell me in a flat voice how he had managed to become Vulcan by suppressing all emotions. I asked him whether he was like this all the time and he said yes, at home and at school he had totally given himself over to logic. Then I asked whether he was serious. He stated that Vulcans never lie. Next stop, Nerdsville... Betcha he didn't get many dates in high school... I couldn't get off the elevator fast enough. That and the first thing I saw when the doors opened was a gal who was dressed in a costume that consisted (and I'm not exaggerating) four small pink feathers, one in her hair and the other three positioned in strategic locations to cover... Well, you get the picture. I remember thinking, "Gee, I never saw that outfit on any ST episode I ever watched", not that I minded much...
In any case, nice work.
Cap
I remember the one and only Star Trek convention I went to in Pittsburgh PA. I was riding the elevator with a teenager dressed as a Vulcan Science Officer ala Spock. I started talking to him, where are you from, how he liked the con, etc. and he proceeded to tell me in a flat voice how he had managed to become Vulcan by suppressing all emotions. I asked him whether he was like this all the time and he said yes, at home and at school he had totally given himself over to logic. Then I asked whether he was serious. He stated that Vulcans never lie. Next stop, Nerdsville... Betcha he didn't get many dates in high school... I couldn't get off the elevator fast enough. That and the first thing I saw when the doors opened was a gal who was dressed in a costume that consisted (and I'm not exaggerating) four small pink feathers, one in her hair and the other three positioned in strategic locations to cover... Well, you get the picture. I remember thinking, "Gee, I never saw that outfit on any ST episode I ever watched", not that I minded much...
In any case, nice work.
Cap
Knowing you, you probably called PETA so that they would forcefully remove that woman's feathers.
That Trekkie you are describing seems to fit every stereotype I have about cosplayers and fans. The very story you told me reminds me of a video I saw of a commercial for some obscure rival to the Sci-Fi Channel. Some petitioner goes door-to-door asking people to protest the Star Trek lineup on the channel. The woman the petitioner encounters doesn't really seem to know what Star Trek is and isn't quite sure what he's on about, but she calls up her son Gary from the basement to sign the petition for her. Suddenly, a fearsome Klingon marches up to the petitioner and decks him. The mother scolds her son in Klingon and both return inside the house.
So, as much as I've think I've watched Star Wars an irrational number of times throughout my life, I guess this shows that there are folks who have taken it to far worse extremes.
That Trekkie you are describing seems to fit every stereotype I have about cosplayers and fans. The very story you told me reminds me of a video I saw of a commercial for some obscure rival to the Sci-Fi Channel. Some petitioner goes door-to-door asking people to protest the Star Trek lineup on the channel. The woman the petitioner encounters doesn't really seem to know what Star Trek is and isn't quite sure what he's on about, but she calls up her son Gary from the basement to sign the petition for her. Suddenly, a fearsome Klingon marches up to the petitioner and decks him. The mother scolds her son in Klingon and both return inside the house.
So, as much as I've think I've watched Star Wars an irrational number of times throughout my life, I guess this shows that there are folks who have taken it to far worse extremes.
Nah, I would have removed 'em myself if she hadn't been surrounded by every fanboy in Western Pennsylvania...
I've gotta admit, I've seen my share of "weirdies" (to quote Mickey Rooney on "Night at the Museum") at the anime conventions I've attended, but I've also met some cosplayers who were down to earth and weren't so immersed in the character they were portraying as to have "lost themselves in the role". I've met soldiers just back from Iraq doing cosplay stuff, just because they liked a particular anime series. One guy (a senior-ranking Green Beret NCO no less) has one of the best sets of Jin-Ro Wolf Brigade armor I've ever seen, complete with red glowing eyes and MG-42.
You're right though... Some folks can take things to an extreme that borders on the absurd. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U67CJqLUjA0
Cap
I've gotta admit, I've seen my share of "weirdies" (to quote Mickey Rooney on "Night at the Museum") at the anime conventions I've attended, but I've also met some cosplayers who were down to earth and weren't so immersed in the character they were portraying as to have "lost themselves in the role". I've met soldiers just back from Iraq doing cosplay stuff, just because they liked a particular anime series. One guy (a senior-ranking Green Beret NCO no less) has one of the best sets of Jin-Ro Wolf Brigade armor I've ever seen, complete with red glowing eyes and MG-42.
You're right though... Some folks can take things to an extreme that borders on the absurd. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U67CJqLUjA0
Cap
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