I love the fett image.
The post with the TIE variants is great! You have really take the details, shading and perspective to the next level on these. I especially like the two views you drew for the center TIE.
What are you using for markers? Don't be afraid to get a couple shades of gray in order to do some deeper shadows. I also find that, depending on the paper you're drawing on, a 2nd time over a spot with the same color marker will deepen the shade as well.
I am using Tombow grayscale palette markers as well as some random brand colored markers for the colors..
Those concept airspeeder drawings are awesome. I might use them for a scratch build I'm coming up with. If you don't mind.
Thanks! feel free to use them!
And an update...
V-TIE Light Interceptor design; the front hull is similar to the V-wing from the Clone Wars, while the rear is similar to a TIE fighter, it is basically a much smaller fighter, similar in size to the A-wing fighter, but still using the TIE systems....although because of the size of the TIE systems, the starship builder had to move the cockpit parts forward and add on a front hull to make up for the shrinkage in size...they also made the Radiator panels much smaller, as the engine system has been upgraded to the point that it does not need as much cooling surface for the performance. It boasts 4 cannons as opposed to the two chin blasters of the TIE fighters...
These are three concepts of TIE fighters...the top one is for a New Generation TIE Interceptor, I am not sure how many generations after the ROTJ ones would this be.... the pylons are hexagonal in cross section like Vader's TIE but instead of being perpendicular to the TIE ball, they are swept back by quite a bit, so as to allow better side view for the pilot. The wing panels are now triangles instead of the Interceptor 3-sided shapes. The middle one is my take on the TIE Clutch series mentioned in some EU texts, but redone in such a way that the TIE ball has viewports and side hatches on the sides where normal pylons would be, and the three pylons are placed behind the main ball... this allows the installment of a shield generator and a hyperdrive should one want to... I didn't like how the CGI concepts of the Clutches had the fin placed so close to the top, which would be a problem for the top hatch to open if at all....
And the bottom TIE is basically a redone TIE Fighter, hex panels but bent outwards instead of inwards, and pylons completely different.
Here is a concept for a new series of TIE fighters.. it now has an extended body like the Bomber, with room for machinery and an R series astromech socket...the pylons are now gone, replaced with the body and the large wing like units on each side, which houses the folding radiator foils..it features 4 medium cannons mounted equidistant on the main body, and the capability to actually land without damaging the foils, as well as room enough for a compact shield generator and possibly a small hyperdrive system.
This is either a developmental model OR a stripped down version of the above fighter, it now has normal looking TIE ball, but with side mounted blaster turrets and exposed machinery in the rear of the hull. You can now see that the Radiator foils are in the open position, and that there are openings in the wing form, this is to make it a harder target from above and below, while allowing good cooling effect while closed.
This is the New Generation Tie Interceptor in a more detailed appearance, you can see how it has a standard TIE ball, and fairly orthodox wing panels but they are triangles instead of 3-sided half-hex shapes, and that the pylons are now swept back from the ball, thus giving the pilot better view to the side on his scopes...with the improvements of the systems, the small size is no longer a constraint on the fitment of a hyperdrive unit or a shield generator, and this enables the fighter to be a better design for the TIE pilots.
This is a random design based somewhat on the elderly Delta-6/Delta-7 design shape, but improved with wing units mounted and folding S-foils housing a laser cannon on each end.. it is also similar to the Naboo Royal Cruiser from The Phantom Menace. It is a simple sleek interceptor ship with nice smooth lines.
This is a further development of the A-wing line of fighters, extended hull and with the addition of two foils that mounts the missile tubes on each end, this gives the interceptor the ability to carry 8 more missiles of a long range type, and the installment of the laser cannons to the inside of the hull as opposed to the outside takes up the space formerly used to carry the small missiles, but there is still a center missile tube on the bottom and a magazine of 4 in there.. This is a good long range Interceptor design.
This is a design collaboration between Koensayr (Y-wing) and Kuat Drive Systems to make a heavily armed light craft that can duke it out with Corvettes and Light Cruisers, as well as Convoy Escort ships.. it mounts two Quad laser turrets, two wing mounted cannon turrets, two medium Turbolasers in the nose, two missile tubes with 16 missiles each, and a crew of 4 to 6.... it is called the Spadenose because honestly, it resembles a spade with wings.
