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A Retro Hope

I haven't made a piece of Star Wars fan art in a long while, so recently I worked on this highly stylized poster. I thought that Luke's Landspeeder would make a cool retrowave/cyberpunk look with it silhouetted and the engines glowing, and the desolation of Tatooine would make a great setting for the tried-and-true laser grid and mountains. Binary sunset just is awesome no matter what.

I began by drawing out the image in Illustrator, then I wrote the "A New Hope" text in Photoshop (it's not a font!), and completed the final poster in Photoshop. The final image was assembled in Photoshop consisting of a few main layers, then many adjustment layers and tweaks. But the basic assembly was (top to bottom): text vector, Photoshop effects (glows, etc), shading vector, color vector.

Final poster.

Final poster.

Shading layer, done in Illustrator. I began my process by drawing out the shapes of the final poster in Illustrator in black and white. I wanted to get an idea of the contrast, and how I planned on assembling the final poster in Photoshop.

Shading layer, done in Illustrator.

I began my process by drawing out the shapes of the final poster in Illustrator in black and white. I wanted to get an idea of the contrast, and how I planned on assembling the final poster in Photoshop.

Color layer, done in Illustrator. Since the shading layer included grain from Illustrator, this base layer of color was the bottom layer in Photoshop, and the shading lay sat on top with a Multiply blending mode. Also, many other layers add the tweaks.

Color layer, done in Illustrator.

Since the shading layer included grain from Illustrator, this base layer of color was the bottom layer in Photoshop, and the shading lay sat on top with a Multiply blending mode. Also, many other layers add the tweaks.

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