Luke Skywalker Costume Concept Art For Return Of The Jedi By Nilo Rodis-Jamero (1981)

The Mandalorian S1 - concept art by John Park 

Imperial Guard concept art by Ralph McQuarrie - Return of the Jedi (1983)

☠︎︎ 𝚊𝚜𝚊𝚓𝚓 𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚋𝚢 𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝. 𝚕𝚎 ☠︎︎

♔ 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚊𝚔 𝚝𝚒 𝚌𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚖𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗, 𝚋𝚢 𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚙𝚕𝚞𝚗𝚔𝚎𝚝𝚝, 𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚘𝚝 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚌𝚌𝚊𝚒𝚐 ♔

ꕥ 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚕𝚎𝚒𝚊 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚢 𝚋𝚢 𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚙𝚑 𝚖𝚌𝚚𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚎, 𝚎𝚍𝚐𝚊𝚛 𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚗𝚒𝚕𝚘 𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚒𝚜-𝚓𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚘 ꕥ

𖨆 𝚓𝚢𝚗 𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚋𝚢 𝚐𝚕𝚢𝚗 𝚍𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚗 𖨆

Official clone trooper concept art for Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith by Sang Jun Lee

Exogorth concept art from The Empire Strikes Back

Ralph McQuarrie

I got the Star Wars Art book for Attack of the Clones for christmas and I am obsessed with the concept art of Ventress

From Concept Art to Screen | Revenge of the Sith 8/??

Star Wars designs for Coruscant/Had Abaddon by Ralph McQuarrie.

Planet/location concepts by Ralph McQuarrie for the original Star Wars trilogy (that were reused later).

Coruscant started out as Had Abaddon, capital of the empire, and was going to be featured in RETURN OF THE JEDI. It was very very close, but eventually Lucas decided to go with a second Death Star.

Alderaan. I used to wonder why McQuarrie had bothered designing Alderaan as it would only be seen from space anyway. But Alderaan wasn’t always Alderaan: in one draft, the planet was a giant gas planet, and the capital of the New Galactic Empire.

Sicemon, originally the site of Jabba’s palace in RETURN OF THE JEDI. It was then re-purposed as the home of the rebels, then abandoned.

An abandoned “ice castle” on Hoth where the rebels would have their base of operations (you can spot a tiny Han and Chewie).

These images show Vader’s castle, which I’ve featured before. (In fact I’ve featured several of these images before, but I just wanted to do this overview and didn’t want to exclude the more significant concepts.)

The sinkhole planet that would become Utapau. This one dates back to 1976 I believe.

Bonus: This one, by Doug Chiang, is a concept painting for Jakku, which was conceived as a junk planet. Should have used it! I mean THAT is a planet you’d want to escape from. Plus we had already seen a sand planet.

Art by Ralph McQuarrie for the second Death Star. RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983).

Originally, the Rebel attack that’s the climax of the film was going to be on Had Abaddon, capital of the Empire. Hence those McQuarrie paintings of Coruscant I posted yesterday. If you read the story conferences for ROTJ, you can see it was a close call actually—the plan to use Had Abaddon comes back almost as often as it’s discarded—but eventually, to the others’ dismay, Lucas chose to go with a second Death Star. One of those What Ifs.

ROTJ was the first Star Wars film I saw, so for me it wasn’t a second Death Star: it was a rather eerie zombie construction that looked like the ghost of a dead moon. I thought it was a fascinating sight anyway.