Star Wars sketches: To mark the occasion of Star Wars day (ie May the fourth) 2024, here is a selection of my Star Wars doodles from the past few years.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….
It’s fair to say Star Wars pretty much owned and fired my imagination back when I was wee. Doubtless it did the same for innumerable others.
My own awakening to The Force came in 1978*, when the nice lady at the ticket office at the cinema in Ramsgate (whilst we were on a family holiday there) said my mum and I could go in early to watch the end of the Star Wars** screening before the one for which we’d just procured tickets. So I had the remarkably enjoyable privilege of seeing it for the first time from just before the climactic Death Star battle… and then getting to see the full film again from the start. I wonder if I had had a single better day in my short life up to that point?
I cannot claim to be as Star Wars-fixated as I was when I was a youngster. But I have nonetheless passed some enjoyable moments producing Star Wars doodlings over the past decade.
Here I present a selection of my Star Wars sketchings from recent years.
Which is your favourite?
Who should I draw next?
Gentle reader, the Force will be with you. Always.
Chewie
Vader (serving dark side of the Force realness)
Stormtrooper 1
Stormtrooper 2
Luke, Chewie, Han
C-3P0 1
C-3PO 2
Yoda
May the fourth – in a very real sense – be with you.
Footnotes
* I always thought this happened in 1977, but a few years ago, Google informed me that Star Wars came out the day after Boxing Day in 1977. So what with the glacial pace of films filtering out of the London market back then, and the fact we definitely weren’t in Ramsgate in midwinter, I suppose my awakening to The Force must’ve come in 1978.
** It was definitely just Star Wars then. All this “Episode…” and “New Hope” stuff was retroactively appended later.
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- All Star Wars sketches on this page by MJCarty.
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