Remembering Legendary Concept Designer, Ron Cobb.

Luke Skywalker’s adventures on Dagobah: Star Wars concept art by the brilliant Ralph McQuarrie.

Imperial Guard concept art by Ralph McQuarrie - Return of the Jedi (1983)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Concept Art

Concept art for Kenobi 😍

Here’s hoping we get the trailer tomorrow!

Author Charles Soule says The Drengir are unsettling, amorphous beings, chock full of tentacles and teeth.

“The Drengir are sentient plant-life who are looking to reap a terrible harvest across the galactic frontier,” says Cavan Scott, the writer of Marvel’s upcoming series based in The High Republic. Scott later explains how the seed for this species comes from old concept art drawn by Ian McCaig.

“It’s been great to see the Drengir’s threat grow throughout the initiative,” Charles Soule says. “They are sinister, unstoppable and, as we’ll find out, inescapably linked to the fate of one of our High Republic Jedi…” he continued.

Concept Artists: Ryan Church, Nick Grindraux, John Park, and Doug Chiang The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian by Phil Szostak | Pages 6-7, 14-15, 94-95, 126-127

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order by Bruno Werneck

Part2

Star Wars designs for Coruscant/Had Abaddon by Ralph McQuarrie.

the pre-production concept art of Ralph McQuarrie for 1983′s STAR WARS  Episode VI  RETURN OF THE JEDI  (dir. Richard Marquand; exec. prod. and c-screenwriter George Lucas)

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.