StarWars.com highlights the latest artwork available now from Acme Archives including a new Ahsoka print entitled A Padawan’s Journey by Joe Hogan, and three prints from the artist known as PhaseRunner featuring Dagobah, Mustafar, and Tatooine.
For the artist known as PhaseRunner, holiday marathons of the Star Wars saga would come to make a lasting impact.
“Christmas in the ‘90s was never complete without me and my brothers huddling around the TV to watch Star Wars,” he tells StarWars.com. “The promise of adventure these movies offered has stayed with me through my entire personal and professional life.”
Indeed, that “promise of adventure” forms the basis of PhaseRunner’s own Star Wars trilogy, of sorts. In three new, stunning paintings from ACME Archives, the artist depicts famous Star Wars craft arriving at some of the saga’s most iconic planets, with the massive, boldly-colored worlds conveying a real sense of mystery at what awaits.
“The inspiration for my Dagobah, Mustafar, and Tatooine pieces came from those iconic moments you see in each episode, where a pilot approaches a new strange and wonderful looking planet, particularly Luke’s first decent into Dagobah,” PhaseRunner says. “I find the planets in the Star Wars galaxy vivid and rich in color, especially when contrasted against the blackness of space. They felt magical, and sometimes a little ominous. I wanted to echo this in my artwork.”
“Mustafar L-19” by PhaseRunner
“Tatooine R-16” by PhaseRunner
In addition, artist Joe Hogan’s Ahsoka Tano-centric Star Wars: The Clone Wars illustration, “A Padawan’s Journey.” A colorful and striking image, it’s Hogan’s tribute to a series and character that mean so much to him.
“The Clone Wars series debuted during a time in my life that I was very uncertain about who I was as an artist, despite knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that I wanted to create Star Wars art,” Hogan says. “I was already a huge fan of Star Wars since childhood, but was still struggling to find my voice after graduating art school in 2008. A few months later, the first episode, “Ambush” debuted, and the art style — combined with classic George Lucas Star Wars storytelling — heavily inspired me so much to keep working towards my goal of one day becoming a Star Wars artist.”
Read more at StarWars.com, and head to Acme Archives to purchase these prints now.
