Droids Custom 8D8: First art!

by Bill Cable
on 2025-01-22, 08:10:53

I've decided which Droids Custom I'm gonna do next. It'll be 8D8. And here's how it began:

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I actually had what I thought was a really funny idea for the art that I almost went with. It was gonna be 8D8 all frustrated trying to torture BB-8 in the machine he used to torture the Gonk droid, but he couldn't because BB-8 doesn't have feet. But thinking on that, the Sequel Trilogy doesn't get a lot of love these days, so I decided to try a different tack. You know who's a real crowd pleaser? Chopper!

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I had a good idea what I wanted to do pose-wise, but other than knowing that it'll be in Jabba's dungeon I didn't have a good idea on what the background will be. I need to rewatch the scene. But in the mean time, I could work on what I had...

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The final challenge was the left arm. Did I want both arms lunging towards Chopper? I liked the torso detail a lot on 8D8, so I kinda didn't want to cover that all up. Maybe a foreshortened arm coming forward? Eh...

Instead I decided to give him a weapon to club Chopper with.

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I had to take some liberties with the arm pose... the figure doesn't have ball-joint shoulders or elbows that look like they flex much. But I think I did a decent job. With the figures finished normally I'd work on the background next. But there is so much detail in the droid, I didn't want to face multiple erases of the art as I try/ruin/fix the background. So I decided, why not ink the characters now??

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Next steps will be to rewatch the dungeon scenes and find background elements I like. I'm pretty certain that foot scalder apparatus will end up behind them. Other than that, I have no idea. Check back next week and my progress will be revealed!





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