D's Illustrated Star Wars

I don't think I'm coming out of the closet to reveal that I'm a geek; but perhaps you don't know just how geeky... I play Roleplaying Games (like Dungeons & Dragons)- Phew, it feels good saying that out loud (actually I'm pretty unashamedly proud of it).

My group recently finished up a two and a half year Star Wars 'campaign' (which is quite impressive I assure you) and as part of that process the players kept up a series of fantastic journals (via a blog) written from their character's perspective and illustrated by me. I recently (finally) finished that epic task and thought I'd share a few of my favorites….

Star Wars: 1313

One of the great disappointments of the closure of LucasArts last year was the loss of the video game Starwars: 1313 which in it's closing state of (now defunct) development looked like it was probably going to be pretty awesome.

IGN has a nice article on the game, or what was the game with lot's of gorgeous concept art, movies; including the demo and the revelation that it would actually revolve around Boba Fett! Check it out.

The Rancor

A sweet little comic by Chris Gugilotti

Star Wars Advent Calendar

Get a Star Wars Advent calendar for the last minute countdown to Christmas!

Star Wars Audition Tapes

With the Star Wars franchise changing hands, there is a multitude of new directors auditioning for a chance to direct the next picture.
Wes Anderson


Todd Phillips


Tom Six

Rejected Star Wars Merchandise

A series of articles by product designer Jason Geyer who was asked (along with his team) to pitch for Star Wars merchandise... This is what they rejected.

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Disney Buys Lucasfilm

The court is still out on this one as to whether it will be a good thing or bad thing for the Star Wars universe, but I'm coming down on the side of the positive; even if I'm extremely wary of a new trilogy being hacked together in two years...

The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm and is already planning "Star Wars: Episode VII", the first of a new trilogy, for release in 2015.
Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Lucasfilm and its operating businesses in live action film production, consumer products, animation, visual effects, and audio post production.
This includes all its subsidiary offshoots beyond Lucasfilm Ltd. itself including LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic, and Skywalker Sound. Lucasfilm employees are expected to remain in their current locations.

Cute, Custom, Star Wars Lego

A very cute series of Star Wars in Lego for a charity event. Check out the rest of Legohaulic's work.

One-Man Star Wars Anime

An amazing one-man Star Wars Anime short by Paul Michael Johnson

Star Wars Noir Posters

A series of gorgeous Star Wars/Noir mash-up posters.

As You Wish Helmet Project

The full collection of designs form the As You Wish Helmet Project, a re imagining of Clone Trooper helmets by select artists, members of the 501st and the Dented Helmet which raised $135,000 for the Make A Wish Foundation.

Chewbacca Messenger Bag

D's Christmas List: Chewbacca Messenger Bag at Think Geek

The Star Wars That I Used to Know

If you're familiar with the rather stunning Gotye 'Somebody That I Used To Know ' (featuring Kimbra) track and you're a Star Wars fan still smarting from the prequels, you might enjoy the below parody by teddiefilms

Game Trailers

Watch Dogs (currently talk of the interwebs...) 1313 (a new and surprisingly awesome new 'gritty' Star Wars story)

More of D's Star Wars Illustrations

A couple of new illustrations for my current game.

Vuul the Socorron Desert Guide and connoisseur of lizard meat...

The crew start a bar (Cantina) room brawl... again...

One Man Star Wars Cover

One man vocal cover of the Star Wars theme by Nick McKaig

D's Star Wars: Rogue Traders

The following article contains nerdity, reader discretion is advised.

One of my hobbies (or in my case 'Life Style choices') is that I play roleplaying games (e.g. Dungeons & Dragons).

As part of a Star Wars game I'm currently running I use an interesting community site called Obsidian Portal to help me manage my game; essentially a repository for information, rules and player journals. This site has literally thousands of other such 'campaigns' and each month they nominate one site as 'Campaign of the Month'... This Month, it was us... Star Wars: Rogue Traders. Now a big part of that award goes to my players who keep a weekly journal of their antics in the game and it is pretty awesome reading (if you're into that sort of thing) but my contribution, in addition to managing the site, has been the artwork.

Essentially this has been a bit of an epic personal project for me, creating characters and 'scenes' from the game sessions. Below is a selection, enjoy.

Boba and the Sarlac

If the Giving Tree was about Boba Fett...

Star Wars Kinect

I heard a lot about this; the latest Star Wars game on X360 Kinect and it's 'dance' component and I avoided it... With the hate of a man burnt by 3 prequels... But I kept getting sent links and eventually I checked it out and well... It's actually pretty cool. The idea is makes me cringe but it's execution is that of people who obvioulsy love and respect Star Wars, the song lyrics, the dance move names, it's actually pretty well done.

Star Wars Continual Line Drawings

Star Wars Continual Line Drawings by Sam Hallows