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Holly's Sketches-Poster 4

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I did surprisingly less sketches for the last and final poster, but then most of my characters already had preliminary drawings and I didn't really need to re-draw them all. There was another sketch done of the finished product that more closely resembles the final outcome. At first I wanted to go with a similar feel as the other posters, but this one was a lot darker.

You can see the helmet in Karnic's hand: this is his new guise. After this adventure he went into hiding to raise his last remaining son in seclusion.

The sketches below are the color, but for the poster, David wanted the mask to look a little more silver or reflective instead of matt black.

Karnic Foe can be a ferocious ally: I was inspired from the picture below.

Aria Gunnir (braided gal) thinks that her good friend Karnic (Trandoshan) has been killed. And the recurring character Tarc shows up again, this time with the Trandoshan Hit squad... At the end (or nearly at the end) Aria has the Kazellis Light Freighter willed to her: it is already christened "The Lone Gunnir". On the fourth poster you will see a computer schematic of a Kazellis Light Freighter.

Concepts of Aria:

The final poster is a lot more simplified than what you see below, in the sketch. Again, CT3P0 and Uan'a the Bothan had such minor roles in the actual adventure (they do have MUCH more significant roles in other adventures) that I left them out. The characters with the highest importance were left in the poster as well as the symbol of the helmet and the ship schematic. Karnic was, at first appearance, killed: the Kazellis Light Freighter was bequeathed to Aria.

Then, later, and only known to Crovax, Umi, Velexa and Aria, they found out it was not him who had been killed, but it was Karnic's brother who was dying from a disease that would have killed him anyway. Karnic's brother had wanted to die with honor, so he chose to sacrifice himself. Naturally, the killer was Tarc, and the participants were from the Trandoshan Hit Squad. Karnic had ties to this group and was framed for Tarc's crimes, and Tarc was the one who killed him.

I wanted the group of four friends to be in the poster, but their expressions and their size emphasize that they were powerless to stop Karnic (they thought) from being killed. I also liked how the helmet, the ship and the Rebel Alliance symbol seem to act as a protective buffer to Tarc and his henchmen. You can see a slight echo with the shapes of the Rebel Alliance crest and the Kazellis Light Freighter.

I wanted this poster to be the darkest of them all, but still wanted a hint of hope showing through the shadows: a bit of subtle ambiguity, as it were. There is a bit of sunshine peeking through clouds on the left, but does this indicate a ray of hope or that the sun is setting on our hero's life? There is an area of light at the top right hand side of the poster, but again, the darkness in the foreground makes hope recede back again. The darkness stretches diagonally across from the top left corner down to the bottom right, yet Karnic looks as ready as ever to fight another day. The Alliance crest is present, but it appears to have been used as a weapon or to be bleeding. Ah, dualism!