Art Notes: Not Wasting Ink

That's a pretty hastily sketched-in Leia! I don't think - even at 13 or 14 - I was that interested in drawing her at all. I'm getting through the better drawn stuff at the moment. It's August, are most of you away on holidays? Perhaps you'll never see these anyway.

See the muzzle flare? Very much inspired by « Howard Chaykin. If you freeze frame the original movie you'll see that most of the time they either did a scratchy mark for a frame - or two - and did a flash effect on the film. Like the type you get when you accidentally open a camera and let some light in. Those frames are very colourful. I « wrote about this last year and it was quite pertinent to the colouring in the 1977 Marvel Adaptation. Chaykin instead went for a more fluid ballooning effect - like a mass of napalm or something. Probably a better visual solution than just copying the film (below); not that he would have had access to film frames with composited effects of course.

Film Notes

Blink and you'll miss it! Good ol' YouTube and freeze frame

When Carrie moves across the corridor in the film after taking Luke's blaster - she fires a few shots with her silent prop-gun. You can see that she acts 'blinking' as the imaginary shots fire off. Not bad eh?

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