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Holly's Sketches-Poster 3

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Below are some sketches I did together of Ikcin (left) and Sabrina (right).

 

Sabrina's ship, Suntiger, below, was crafted via chop-shop by Keith. It's part tank and part TIE-Fighter. I took photographs of it on different angles until I found the one that seemed to fit best into the poster. It's actually glossier in real-life, but I think I still pulled it off.

CROVAX: 

Since Crovax is David's character, his vision was of a powerful musculature and bone structure like Thanos. I also went with what little information I could find in the source books, and I believe there was an example of a Reiget in A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy. On the cover, the Reiget looks a sort of greyish-blue; however in Crovax's case, he was more blue than the usual Reiget, as to how albinos are rare in humans.

Thanos Inspiration:

Below is a sketch of my version of a Lesser Krayt Dragon: there are a lot more pictures of them around now, but I had a little help from online gaming magazines and The Wildelife of Star Wars.

Inspiration:

Sketch:

JABBA AND SIBARRA:

 

Below is a comparison between Jabba and Sibarra, and I just went with a paler and cyborged version of Jabba, because I could only find one drawing of him in the Hive of Scum and Villainy source book. Sibarra the Hutt is a Cybernetic Crime Lord. Here is a quote of his description:

"Outcast from Hutt society because he was weak, Sibarra vowed revenge. His highly grotesque, disfigured body was further sent into nightmare status with the addition of a Cybernetic Eye and Arm, Sub dermal Plating, and a Cytac' Shocktail. He is extremely moody with sudden rages spring up from time to time. Sibarra the Hutt has vowed revenge against all Hutts for casting him out. He can be found at times torturing Hutts that he has captured or paid huge bounties for. Sibarra runs the criminal side of the Ace of Sabers. He is a big contributor to the AubroAhntanda Slavery Ring."

David also added the little twist that Sibarra also likes to collect and enslave rare beings, as though they were his very own collectibles. Hence the reason Ikcin was frozen in carbonite, much like Han Solo was for Jabba. Some websites that refer to the Ace of Sabers Casino and its entourage:
http://www.theforce.net/swenc/newdescr.asp?search=22911&tab=d and http://www.cold-moon.com/StarWars/npcs/npcs.htm and I believe information on him is also available somewhere in a SW source book.

Sibarra works indoors at his Casino, The Ace of Sabers, which you see in Basic in reverse on the lower right corner of the finished poster. Dunan Par'Ell is the fellow in front of the window - he is Sibarra's Security Specialist, apparently Human He resigned from the Imperial Military [branch unknown] under mysterious circumstances after serving over 10 years. While Par'Ell is human, he has mirror-like pupils that give him a frightening appearance. He never loses his temper. Par'Ell is one of the few surviving supreme adept in the k'Jari martial art. He can always be seen wearing his signature scarlet body cloak over black armor.

As you can see, I missed this last detail, but we can pretend the lighting is so intense that his cape only appears to be silver and his armor only appears to be blue. Heh heh!

FINAL SKETCH:

I always thought it would look best to have Ikcin in the center of the drawing, since she was integral to the plot. At this point, Velexa had wanted to seek out someone she had felt a keen sense of familiarity: that somehow she knew they had a lot in common -- so we sought out Crovax on Tatooine. At the time he was errand-boy for Jabba, and we gleaned some valuable information from Jabba about Sibarra the Hutt. Sibarra had recently acquired a Formassan, and the description he gave left no doubt that it was our Ikcin. So we left from there with Crovax "Bruiser" Brummaxium in tow, and headed to Nar Shada where Sibarra and his kind festered.

Originally there were more characters involved that I wished to display in the poster. Again, I had to cut back a certain amount. In the original sketch I included more of Tatooine. We were attacked by the Krayt on the way to Jabba's, but then also chased by Tusken Raiders. I also rearranged the order of things on the page because I wanted to reinforce the idea that the characters went from above the ground, where it was all sunny and hot on Tatooine, to the Labyrinth that we had to mince our way through (yeah, like Indiana Jones on Meth) was deep underground on Nar Shada, a completely sterile and overdeveloped, overpopulated planet. There was also a Bounty Hunter that came to find us, but fortunately he was on our side at the time: apparently Uan'A, our little Bothan buddy, was getting worried about us and hired him to track us down. Vallikor En-Vahdi was very impressive to look at, but again, I would have either had to draw him extra teensy or leave someone else out of the drawing. The Jawas, truthfully, had some sort of significance, but for the life of me, I can't remember what. Additionally there was a slightly modified Protocol Droid (who turned out to be someone else entirely, we found out later) assisting us with information before we left the Rebel Base, and a Bothan who assisted us in tracking down the feature character in the fourth and final poster: Karnic Foe, the Trandoshan.