Stormtrooper
Original photograph © LucasFilm, Ltd.
This was my final project for the black & white shading unit of my high school art class.
Our assignment was to take a black & white photo and reproduce it in pencil. After
rejecting all of the other photos I submitted, I was lucky enough to stumble across this
publicity still from
"Star Wars" (1977) which
my teacher reluctantly approved. The drawing incorporates all of the different styles of
shading that we'd been taught, although my teacher constantly berated me for my use of
lines which he called "too cartoony." Well, screw him - I like cartoons.
(pencil - November 1985)