I agree with you about art and drawing being therapeutic. Looking at my recent set of drawings it seems I think I'd be in an Emergency Room or Psycho ward by now if it wasn't for the "Release" drawing my comics and cartoons provide.

As for the image, I am amazed at the concept of bringing down an Imperial Star Destroyer and crashing onto a planet's surface. I don't think the vessels are designed as planet landers, so this ship is a "Write Off" as far as the Empire is concerned.

There is some recent video game commercial from Lucasarts that had an animated scene of a Star Destroyer crashing into a planet. I'm sure that scenario is one of many "out-of-the-box" fan generated concepts geeks drool over for a long time now. I always wondered what it would look like for a Star Destroyer actually "docking" into the Death Star...I'm sure there were titanic hangar bays that could accommodate such sizes...even capital ships.

The idea of a ship like that crashing onto the surface is not so outrageous.... in fact, from orbit, the crash would look like you dropped a tiny tea cup onto the floor.

Oh! The image that popped up in my head when I read that last sentence. As long as the drive reactors don't scramble and cause a complete matter conversion explosion. Then it wouldn't look like a teacup falling on the floor, but rather more like an M-80 firecracker going off on the surface of the planet.

Yeah... I'm a Star Wars Geek. What would one expect of a former President of the Jedi Knights fan club?

I once went to a meeting of one of those "Fan Clubs" of Star Wars as you mentioned and it was something of a revelation to me about associations... you join with high expectations due to your faith in an idea that everyone shares; you end up trying to insert yourself in active conversations about subjects you like that end up fractured into small arguments on who's facts are canon; to practically have to constantly "bend over" to reach any level of common respect in order to put good ideas through for the club; and you are expected to render "club fees" on time. This may be not true to ALL clubs, but the patterns do exist to this day.

The scene with the SDD crashing on a planets surface by force of a Jedi is from the game Star Wars: the Force unleashed. Since size does not matter

I´ve seen Luke Skywalker bringing down an ATAT Walker in one of the older SW Dark Empire Comics

Didn't he already do that in EMPIRE STRIKES BACK?

with help of a cable and his lightsaber, in the comic he´s using the force

I should've known that.... I was so knowledgeable of the early era of SW fandom that I "ACED" SW Trivial Pursuit many times... as in answering EVERY question right that the other players did not have a chance to play a turn. Oh well... the decrepit recesses of my youth sometimes ooze out and stick to the bottom of common sense.

Hey Mitch, amazing work. The "landing" on the planet gives me nice memories of playing Star Wars the Force unleashed

Maybe THAT was the game I was trying to recall for  steamfox above... thank you!

I told him a minute ago,

Maybe Wyn-E went rampage inside of the SDD XD

Or...maybe the Pulsar Swift blaster cannons did most o the dirty work and she was just..."cleaning house"...

Mhh good idea

Wow! I can never draw that good in pen!

Practice, practice,practice...every day. It also speeds up the process if you focus on things you constantly obsess about.

Those pants look painfully tight...

Great job on rendering this! Perhaps we should smuggle you some proper paper and pens.

Try smuggling the entire Copic catalog and see what I can come up with...

They're not tight... just..."conforming" in an active sense....( yep...gotta be that!)

Extensive. You should try it...

That's an amazing image! She looks badass.

Heh, even from the "front"...

Lol, yes.

Awesome looking mood piece. Hope your recovery and healing is going well.

Drs say I can walk without crutches in about a month. Financial recovery will leave me castrated...

Yay for the drs and ooooo s#!t for the finances.

Drugs are artificial. Art is natural. Only the reliance on the artificial and the synthetic makes you an addict. Drawing ass-stompingly great art just makes you an ass-stompingly great artist, nothing more nor less. ^_^

There are "natural" drugs out there, Gene... art just happens to be one of it's purest forms.

OK.... art is like potato chips; you just can't have one, and I am fat from them!

Yep! Art is good for you - I use it like that all the time.

I wonder if it will change your approach AFTER you are married... you will start doing more "wholesome" themes and become more liberal in your approach, maybe even do Obama re-election campaign art for him. Be careful, my Icelanic lighting rod: you attract irony like a fate-magnet!

Dayum!

Wheyyll, sheeoot! I be gon-dun prowd a' such purdy commentz! E-haw!

(...folk in Arkansas don't REALLY talk like that, do they???)

This is an incredible piece, for a ballpoint-pen work! Thanks for posting it!
During a long period offline, I went thru a repetitive-stress wrist and elbow problem, and had no insurance to cover treatment-did what I could for myself, bla bla...Celebrating just about conquering it by injuring two seperate fingers, a month or so apart. Really, not much drawing for me for about 2 and a half years or so. Getting back to drawing any kind of passable new art was taking a really depressing amount of unbelievably bad pencil sketches; to this day, I don't feel I'm up to where I was, which wasn't even much to begin with. But I found a more positive outcome by doing a lot of inking work on older pencil sketches. I kept working on both, but concentrated on the inking to work my injured fingers for some time, cuz it looked like I might be getting somewhere. Just wanted to let you know I can definitely relate to your comments.

The pain of medical situations is nothing compared to the pain of lost ability, especially in an artistic sense. If I had lost my art hand, the other would be taught not just out of necessity, but the pure driving lust of just doing artwork. Thankfully it was not the case (this time), but I believe a certain amount of just being stubborn against futility forces one to face one's demons and go on living and doing what compels you in the first place. I guess it's what us humans do best for ourselves. I keep drawing, no matter what.

The test of the Mightier....

Sword or pen? Hmmmm.....

In this case........?

Lust for a woodpecker girl since adolescence.

Heh heh ha heh heh.

That's just an epic use of ballpoint pen, sir....wow!

Thank you very much. I was inspired of this technique by the late, great Michael-Scot McMurry. He was a super-advocate of ballpoint pen art for it's versatility and economics.


I miss him a lot. He is the flashpoint for me coming to live in Arizona.

I didn't know he used to use a ballpoint pen...interesting.

I like to sketch with them, but I'm left-handed...so depending on the quality of ink...there are smudges all over the place!

There are guides and tools that can help prevent smudging.... oil painters use them all the time. Look at some major art supply websites, they should have them.