So, I've been trying to draw one of my player's wookiee character. I'm experimenting with various styles, as I need a character sketch for each of the players that will be used in the eventual youtube channel we're setting up for our game sessions. The other characters are a droid with pin art for a face (the pins in his face move to match those he interacts with... he's an ex trader droid), a tall muscly gold skinned arkanian with the requisite goggles, a twi'lek fringer and Matwe! (newbie player didn't want to roll up a character right away).

Which do you like?

This is the first sketch of the droid. Ignore the hand-clamp.... very very wrong.

His name is A-4A. A barter droid built by the now defunct Trade Federation for establishing new trade routes with new customers. Now he is hunted by an unknown enemy that want those forgotten trade routes he's got buried deep in his memory banks.

The face is made up of hundreds of tiny pins that move back and forth (like an executive pin art toy). His actual eye slot is the band about his forehead. He's had some modifications done (by the wookiee Huundar above) as he was chucked for scrap 30 years ago and the wookiee found him on a scrap heap. He hasn't been able to find suitable components that match his original styling, but the wookiee is more concerned with functionality over styling at this time.

The neck and stomach are accordion'd to allow A4-A to shrink or stretch to best match the height of those he interacts with.

I like the full colour wookiee or the heavy charcoal wookiee...

Nice sketching

First sketch of the wookiee.

I prefer the penciled Wookie myself.

Good stuff though!

Nice work! What program did you use to paint the Wookiee?

i drew it in pencil, then shot that with me iPhone and messed about in photoshop. I'm forking out for a cintiq wacom this december. It'll be my xmas present to myself. Well, from my business. lol.

Great work, I prefer the second Wookiee (the one in color). Although the third one (red background) would make a nice wanted poster...

The red and blue one stylistically appeals to me. Reminds me of the old marvel star wars, but the full colour gives more description detail.

That is an awesome concept for a droid. (And if they won't trade, you give 'em the CLAMPS! <clack, clack>)

That is an awesome concept for a droid. (And if they won't trade, you give 'em the CLAMPS! <clack, clack>)

Settle down, Francis. LOL.

Red Background Blue Wookiee is the way to go. Distinctive, different, and you can use the colors to indicate the general mood or personality of the character.

Edit: To clarify what I mean by mood / personality - Those colors tell me that the wookiee is in a dark, angry place internally, no matter what his outward appearance might suggest. Different combos would mean different things, of course.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Yeah, the retro flat colour is quite distinctive. I'll see if I can do the droid like that. My Arkanian player is getting restless seeing everyone else's sketches. chuckle.