Some old art I found while unpacking. A few years ago, the guys at work were talking about getting back into D&D or something. We'd sit around and talk about how fun it was to do geeky stuff like D&D. Someone suggested we should start playing again. I told everyone that we could also try other settings too. Not just fantasy. After a bit, everyone seemed excited to give the Star Wars RPG a try. I asked, "okay...what timeline you guys wanna play in?" Everyone agreed that after "Return of the Jedi" would be fun. Since the story of what happened before Episode 4 was already being told ... we thought to explore post-Episode 6.

GM duties ended in my lap and a couple of weeks before our first play session, I decided to do a promo-poster that would be e-mailed to the players. Y'know ... get'em hyped a bit for the upcoming campaign. This piece was the promo-art.

I wanted to get across that it was the whole "after the fall of the Empire" thing. So thus, I composed the art around the fallen Star Destroyer and Stormtrooper helmet in foreground. The player-characters are tiny on the horizon. Abstract archetypes because...I really didn't know what kind of characters the guys were going to make.

Funny tid bit: some years later....the artists at ILM release (thru Dark Horse I believe) a comic book that featured short stories drawn by the "actual artists" who worked on the film. One of the pin up pieces in there featured a fallen wrecked Star Destroyer much in the same way as I did in my art. Wow....coincidence - guess we were both thinking of the same gimmick. But I thought I'd mention it just in case people think I might've copied his composition. Just wanted to tell my side of the story before any finger pointing started! Heh heh.