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Published: 2010-02-24 04:23:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 149764; Favourites: 3960; Downloads: 5548
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This is a trading card I did for Topps' STAR WARS Galaxies 5 card set, released today.Before anyone gets confused, this is from the very first Star Wars novel, SPLINTER OF THE MIND'S EYE (1978), by Alan Dean Foster. It starts off with Luke and Leia flying to a diplomatic mission on one planet only to be forced into a crash-landing on another. Luke was in his X-Wing, and Leia was piloting a 2-seater Y-Wing with Threepio. I'm assuming Leia wasn't doing this in her white robes....
I guess I always liked the idea of Leia in the rebel pilot flight gear.
10" X 14", pencil & ink on 3-ply Strathmore Series 500 illustration board, then colored in Adobe Photoshop CS2.
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First ever imaging of Leia as a pilot?
Now it's official in Dark Horse's new Star Wars ongoing series!
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Do you have any prints of this, or is it a Topps exclusive? If so, do they have any prints (roughly poster size) of this picture? I'm in a mad search for non-Slave-Leia prints.
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This is a really great idea and it was beautifully executed. It would have been pretty awesome to see Leia work as a fighter pilot during the Death Star run.
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Sorry, princess. But you're not getting that helmet on over those buns.
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Wow this is awesome Leia does pilot ships in the EU too
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I'm just happy to see her in something other than the slave bikini. Great work as always.
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Superb! I love it! she was more hands on than the movies showed, I'm sure. Brilliant work!
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Hey, I saw this picture about three months ago and I wondered by who it is 
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just one question, how does she get her helmet on over that hairdo?
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For safety reasons, she'd have to be in pilot gear
Still, this is a fantastic image
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I wonder buy one HQ of yours.... if it come to brasil
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love your style man! keep it coming with the star wars
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Leia and her Y-Wing! Such a cool thought...
Nice work.
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Yes, this is a great idea. She'd be an ace Rebel pilot; she and Luke would have been something to be reckoned with.
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That novel is incredible. I love it, and treasure my copy. My eyes popped out of my head when I first read that part: Leia flying a Y-Wing. Glad somebody got to do a trading card of that! Maybe I should go looking for that... lol Didn't know there were cards out of that novel. Rare to see art for the old books like that. Love the crossdraw holster, BTW. Excellent touch!
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i' ve read the german version of the comic adaption; they encounter darth vader and we see leia during the battle at the end with his former lightsaber trying to hold him off while luke, who is stuck beneath a rock, gets help from one of the two yuzzum they encountered earlier in a prison but it is the last thing the yuzzum does; he dies after luke is free to catch his lightsaber
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That totaly awesome!
Just one thing... the helmet wouldn't fit when she is with that hair. Maybe put on the same hair that she used at the Return of the Jedi just after she meets wicket (she lost her hat).
But the artwork is really outstanding!!!! I love this style! All your gallery is fabulous!
Congrats!
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and THATS why she has her hair like that ... because of the helmet!
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Yay! She looks way better than Luke does in the orange jumpsuit
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Love this picture. not a big fan of that book, but love the art.
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Cool re-interpretation! Leia always did kick ass!
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My favorite pulp fiction. I liked the comics too. I would like to see more Splinter art on net.
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uh. i hate to be a real nerd here... but uh this never really happend did it? i have to watch the original trilogy right away!
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If you read the description of the illustration it explains where it's from.
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Oh yeah your right. My mistake. Your analogie makes perfect since. The background is life like in an artistic way, the shadow is subtle on the bottomn half, but very dramatic on the top half. But aside from that you melded the two together in perfect harmony. Im not sure how many cards you did, or even if you did all of them, but this one is amazing, and if this is the only one you did, im sure it outshined all the other ones in the deck. if it wasnt for a card thingy, I bet you could hang this up in a gallery somewhere and make millions! I dont mean to project my ambitions onto your own, im just trying to say in a clever and long winded way thats its an amazing piece a of art. the colors, the shadows. it really plays to your art style and i can only hope to have one of my own very soon. my gallery is in a mess, and my own artwork is in its infancy, but something tells me im about to achieve a greater level of artistic abilitys. just keep doing what your doing, becouse all of your art work looks great. you set the bar man. thank you.
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no offensive but it looks like u got the cartoon pic and stuck a pick of leia face on it. nice
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