Beautiful Concept Art Of Padme By Iain McCaig

Battle of Hoth - The Empire Strikes Back concept art by Ralph McQuarrie (1978)

Ralph McQuarrie art and designs for the Emperor’s throne room and guards. Return of the Jedi (1983).

Character Design: Finding the Look of Ahsoka Tano

Ahsoka first appeared in a 2005 sketch by Dave Filoni. In that pencil sketch, she was just a shy Togruta girl peeking out from beneath her oversized Jedi hood.

Audiences wouldn’t meet the character for another THREE YEARS, and over that time she tried on different costumes and facial markings and had her named changed from Ashla, before the team arrived at the version that made it to Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie.

Believe it or not, her final look was greatly influenced by San in Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke.

An early maquette had more angular features, but George Lucas voiced some concerns over her larger alien head, suggesting softening her features to make her more relatable. This gave us the final – and much loved – Ahsoka Tano!

From Concept Art to Screen | Revenge of the Sith 8/??

Remembering legendary concept designer, Ron Cobb.

Cantina alien designs by Ron Cobb for STAR WARS (1977).

Two more later on.

Star Wars: Rogue One Concept Art

Asajj Ventress Concept Art (originally Sith Villain from Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones)

Ralph McQuarrie

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - Padme Amidala Concept Art | by Sang Jun Lee

Planet/location concepts by Ralph McQuarrie for the original Star Wars trilogy (that were reused later).

Coruscant started out as Had Abaddon, capital of the empire, and was going to be featured in RETURN OF THE JEDI. It was very very close, but eventually Lucas decided to go with a second Death Star.

Alderaan. I used to wonder why McQuarrie had bothered designing Alderaan as it would only be seen from space anyway. But Alderaan wasn’t always Alderaan: in one draft, the planet was a giant gas planet, and the capital of the New Galactic Empire.

Sicemon, originally the site of Jabba’s palace in RETURN OF THE JEDI. It was then re-purposed as the home of the rebels, then abandoned.

An abandoned “ice castle” on Hoth where the rebels would have their base of operations (you can spot a tiny Han and Chewie).

These images show Vader’s castle, which I’ve featured before. (In fact I’ve featured several of these images before, but I just wanted to do this overview and didn’t want to exclude the more significant concepts.)

The sinkhole planet that would become Utapau. This one dates back to 1976 I believe.

Bonus: This one, by Doug Chiang, is a concept painting for Jakku, which was conceived as a junk planet. Should have used it! I mean THAT is a planet you’d want to escape from. Plus we had already seen a sand planet.