Star Wars: The Art of Drew Struzan

For our final Star Wars Weekends post we bring you Drew Struzan who is responsible for the iconic movie posters that sold the films to so many audiences. Drew also designed the logo for Industrial Lights and Magic as well as several Star Wars book covers. You may also recognize his artwork on other famous posters such as Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, and the Harry Potter films as well as literally hundreds of others.

Star Wars: The Art of Iain McCaig and Dermot Power

Today for Star Wars Weekends we bring you two amazing concept artists responsible for the looks of many of the characters in the Prequel films. We begin with Iain McCaig the man behind Darth Maul and Padme.

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Next is Irish concept artist Dermot Power who designed the looks of many of the characters from Episode II as well as Asajj Ventris from Clone Wars.

Star Wars: The Art of Dave Dorman

This weeks edition of Star Wars Weekends brings you the fan appointed #1 Star Wars Artist of All Time, the incredible Dave Dorman. Dorman is perhaps best known for his photo-realistic Star Wars artwork, providing oil painted covers to many of Dark Horses Star Wars comics. His Star Wars: The Art of Dave Dorman coffee table book is even used as a text book at Northern Illinois University.

Star Wars: The Art of Ralph McQuarrie

Welcome to the first installment of Amazing Cosmic Powers' Star Wars Weekends. When it comes to artists that influenced the look of the Star Wars galaxy, no one influenced it more than Ralph McQuarrie (June 13, 1929 – March 3, 2012). In fact, it would be a very very different place. Ralph designed the looks of Darth Vader, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO and created the looks for many of the film's sets. It was his idea that Vader wear a breathing apparatus.  Many of his vivid and imaginative paintings helped convince 20th Century Fox to fund Star Wars. He would then move on to design the look for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

Star Wars Weekends: May the Fourth be with you!

Happy May 4th! Why is this date special...well its Star Wars day! (May the Fourth be with you...get it)  We're celebrating all month long with Star Wars Weekends! Every Saturday we will be bringing you some amazing artwork from the visionaries behind your favorite galaxy far far away. Also, be sure to fly out to sunny Orlando Florida for Star Wars Weekends, the last two weekends of the month and first two of June, at Disney Hollywood Studios. Here's a couple pieces of artwork from Cartoon Networks Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Enjoy!!!

Artist Spotlight: Adam Hughes

I've decided that any time I feature the artwork from a particular artist that I will be calling it "Artist Spotlight"...not terribly original I know, but it will make a little easier to search through the blogs. Anyhoo, today i feature the incredible artwork of Adam Hughes. Best known for his interpretation of comic book women, Adam at one time did interior pencils before becoming almost exclusively a cover artist. So here is a small smattering of his work. Enjoy!!!