SW Weekly Inspired Art

After visiting the great http://starwarsage9.com/ site, I was inspired to dig out my childhood SW art.

This is the only piece I have remaining, so I thought I'd try to track down the inspiration for it.
Thinking the artwork looked familiar, I rummaged through my SW Weekly collection and found the image in SW Weekly No.6 from 1978.

Looks like I've blatantly nicked the image and added my own 'improvements'.........ahem!
I think you'll agree, the use of form and colour is quite spectacular :lol:

Looking through the old SW Weeklies makes me appreciate how good the original Howard Chakin/Steve Leiahola artwork was.

Anybody else kept hold of their childhood SW art?

Awesome Twin, thanks for sharing it with us...

I don't have any Star Wars art left but I remember being off school sick one day and drawing a Hoth scene sellotaping bits of paper together. I also remember copying an alien robot from the Whizzkidz Handbook that was the spitting image of a Battledroid at least 15 years before Ep4.

I do have 3 pieces of SWFUK created art though, Lorraines Walrus Man wood carving, Mike Siths Walrus Man water colour and the impressice LilyLedy canvas from Martin. They are definitely never getting lost. 8)

JuniorChubb said:

Awesome Twin, thanks for sharing it with us...

I don't have any Star Wars art left but I remember being off school sick one day and drawing a Hoth scene sellotaping bits of paper together. I also remember copying an alien robot from the Whizzkidz Handbook that was the spitting image of a Battledroid at least 15 years before Ep4.

I do have 3 pieces of SWFUK created art though, Lorraines Walrus Man wood carving, Mike Siths Walrus Man water colour and the impressice LilyLedy canvas from Martin. They are definitely never getting lost. 8)

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You created the inspiration for the Battledroid, eh.
A true visionary, JC.

That beats the **** out of my 'Han Stormtrooper with Spazzy Legs' composition .

Twin30mm said:

JuniorChubb said:

Awesome Twin, thanks for sharing it with us...

I don't have any Star Wars art left but I remember being off school sick one day and drawing a Hoth scene sellotaping bits of paper together. I also remember copying an alien robot from the Whizzkidz Handbook that was the spitting image of a Battledroid at least 15 years before Ep4.

I do have 3 pieces of SWFUK created art though, Lorraines Walrus Man wood carving, Mike Siths Walrus Man water colour and the impressice LilyLedy canvas from Martin. They are definitely never getting lost. 8)

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You created the inspiration for the Battledroid, eh.
A true visionary, JC.

That beats the **** out of my 'Han Stormtrooper with Spazzy Legs' composition .

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That was Peter Eldin not me.

Your work is great, reminds me of mine as a kid. awkward proportions and perspective but vibrant and bursting with action and enthusiasm. Taking inspiration from another artist always helped me set of on the right foot.

I would be well proud of that sketch.

Wow, cool stuff. 8)

That's a really great picture - really action packed and colourful.

My eight-year-old self took it upon himself to draw the story of Star Wars but didn't manage to finish it. Without being able to see the film in any format, I was desperate to fix the story into my mind. I only have one panel left but it's a precious piece of my collection.

It's not very good but I thought I'd share!

Craig.

Love it mate, now wea are talking prized possessions ....come on these are truly one offs!

Great stuff 8)

Now that is a great picture, Craig.
Love the muzzle flash.

IIRC, the Topps bubblegum cards and SW Weeklies would have been our only sources of inspiration
in the very early days. Way before the video release in 1982.

Another thread on here mentioned that the ordinary collector is getting priced out of this hobby.
I would think that this scrappy bit of yellowed paper is worth more to you than any monetary value.

WOW! What a great thread!

LOVE these pieces, some fantastic pictures here guys, seriously good considering ages.

Wished I kept mine but seeing these brings back memories of sitting at the dining room table for hours creating comics and characters. My main inspiration when I was ten was actually White Dwarf magazine and 2000ad - copying the insane art from those pages really made me want to draw for a living.

SublevelStudios said:

WOW! What a great thread!

LOVE these pieces, some fantastic pictures here guys, seriously good considering ages.

Wished I kept mine but seeing these brings back memories of sitting at the dining room table for hours creating comics and characters. My main inspiration when I was ten was actually White Dwarf magazine and 2000ad - copying the insane art from those pages really made me want to draw for a living.

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Yeah, forgot about 2000ad. Big childhood/early teen influence on me.
Especially the brilliant Kevin O'Neill drawn 'Nemesis the Warlock' and 'ABC Warrior' strips.

http://ukcomics.wikia.com/wiki/Kevin_O'Neill
http://ukcomics.wikia.com/wiki/ABC_Warriors

SublevelStudios said:

WOW! What a great thread!

LOVE these pieces, some fantastic pictures here guys, seriously good considering ages.

Wished I kept mine but seeing these brings back memories of sitting at the dining room table for hours creating comics and characters. My main inspiration when I was ten was actually White Dwarf magazine and 2000ad - copying the insane art from those pages really made me want to draw for a living.

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Great thread and I also used to take inspiration from 2000ad when it first came out, such a great comic. White Dwarf, wow, there's a blast from the past! I'd forgotten all about that magazine and was always staggered by how much paint detail you could get on such a small figure. I went into painting those lead figures for years but don't think I ended up keeping any of them unfortunately.

Ian

Twin30mm said:

Yeah, forgot about 2000ad. Big childhood/early teen influence on me.
Especially the brilliant Kevin O'Neill drawn 'Nemesis the Warlock' and 'ABC Warrior' strips.

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PM Sent :wink:

Palifan said:

SublevelStudios said:

WOW! What a great thread!

LOVE these pieces, some fantastic pictures here guys, seriously good considering ages.

Wished I kept mine but seeing these brings back memories of sitting at the dining room table for hours creating comics and characters. My main inspiration when I was ten was actually White Dwarf magazine and 2000ad - copying the insane art from those pages really made me want to draw for a living.

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Great thread and I also used to take inspiration from 2000ad when it first came out, such a great comic. White Dwarf, wow, there's a blast from the past! I'd forgotten all about that magazine and was always staggered by how much paint detail you could get on such a small figure. I went into painting those lead figures for years but don't think I ended up keeping any of them unfortunately.

Ian

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My local indie Comic shop was a place called Fantasy World in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. I would spend every Saturday there, it's a shame these sorts of shops have long since gone but downstairs was a glass cabinet filled with painted minitures from W40K and D&D, most were painted by a chap called Mark Delicata, who attained a kind of semi-celebrity status because his stuff was AMAZING. The detail he achieved on such a small scale was unreal.

Great pics guys, wish i had my artwork from the early days, i remember drawing luke with his sabre aloft like on the poster over and over, trying to get it just right.
As a kid we didn't have a lot of cash, so when the catalogs came i'd wait till mum had finished with them then go to the star wars toys page cut the vehicles out and glue them to card, so i had them to play with, sounds pants i know but it kept me busy for a while

Only thing I've got is this:



My parents dropped it over last year with a bunch of other cartoons and pictures I'd drawn over the years that my Dad kept for me.

Not 100% sure I understood at that age that the trench the ships were flying in was actually on the Death Star, which is probably why I drew what looks like a second Death Star in the background :lol:

We didn't have much cash in those days, did we? Everything Star Wars was gold dust, even if it was photographs from a catalogue or a newspaper.

Great stuff Joe. That really captures the scene. We all seem to have picked the parts of the film that excited us the most. I don't think that I ever attempted the trench run due to lack of reference (I don't think I had that issue of the comic).

Twin30mm – Spot on. Great reply. Before the Double Bill feature, TV and video release on 1982 we had to turn to things like the cards and comics – and yes my yellowed childhood drawing is priceless to me!

Craig.

Absolute quality.

I could do TIE Fighters, Death Stars and star destroyers but nothing as good as this.

Quality. Need a delorean.

I also never had much in the way of SW toys in the early days. A few action figures at the most.
I remember being green with envy, when my best mate was given the Palitoy Han Solo blaster for Xmas.

My Dad was ex-military, so it was Action Man all the way.
Not that I minded. Loved everything Action Man. Still do.
Consequently, the majority of my SW intake was the comics, poster mags, novels, sticker books etc.

@Joe
Fantastic Trench Run picture.
I seem to remember most of my scrawlings had Imperial ships/vehicles.
To my 9 yr old eyes, they were the coolest thing ever. It's good to be bad!

I was an Action Man kid too, as I'd been bought some of the toys before Star Wars came out. I even won an Action Man figure for my costume entry at the Silver Jubilee street party in my road. I think my parents thought Action Man was better value than Star Wars.

Okay, this is not exactly what you'd call art work but I thought I'd post pictures of some soldiers that I painted up as Blockade Runner Troopers when I was 8-9 years old. They're actually Chinese knock offs of Airfix WW2 Russian Infantry.

I had a great interest in the troopers, perhaps because they were such underdogs and had perished so bravely. I painted around thirty soldiers to resemble them, which were my first "Star Wars" toys. I hope that I find a few more of them in the back of drawers or the bottom of boxes.

I couldn't resist setting up a small scene with some Micro Machines Stormtroopers - finally my childhood Blockade Runner Troopers have an enemy!

Craig.

That's brilliant, Craig. What a fantastic find.

You've jogged my memory there.
As a kid, I did exactly the same with my Airfix Afrika Korps figures.
I had this grand idea of making a Battle of Hoth diorama and must have thought they had the best resemblence to the Hoth Rebel Soldiers.
I painted them white and stuck on backpacks made out plasticine.

Unfortunately, I don't think the diorama ever saw the light of day.

Jon