Friday, October 06, 2006


This was just supposed to be a warm up sketch but I liked it so I kept futzing with it. I’m working on a big piece for Wired magazine today but if I finish early I may try and color this.

76 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please do.

It's always cool to see other characters in your style.

Kato said...

My god, man, where are his braided Wookie scalps?

Anonymous said...

Please color that and make it into a wallpaper. Bobba Fett is awsome and needs a sweet wallpaper.

Anonymous said...

That is ridiculously rad.

Kevin said...

Very nice. You should color him just to finish it off. He has an intersting color scheme that varies from artist to artist. I noticed that when I was working on a drawing of him with Voltron.

FiSHBoY said...

My backpack's got jets!

geenpool said...

not bad mange. not bad at all. in fact it's so not bad, that it's good. I love the shape of the head. vury, vury nice. I'd like to see it inked. color would be fun as well.

Anonymous said...

I don't like it; Link and the Assasin are WAY better...

Anonymous said...

I am jazzed to see that you are consistantly updating this. Keep it up man.

Anonymous said...

i want to make love to you
... and your art.

Anonymous said...

i'd buy a color one

Anonymous said...

Would love to see it colored and on a black background...perfect wallpaper...

Anonymous said...

I like this, but I have to pose a simple question: Is it Boba or Jango?

Anonymous said...

One word: instantwallpaperclassic

It's just one or two finishing touches ahead plus a dark background... perhaps a planet or stars in the backdrop? pretty please with ice cream on top?

Mad props even if you don't get to finish it.

MrMacMan said...

Don't listen to the haters -- looks nice.

It looks perfect and would clean up very well for the transition to color!

-- MrMacMan

Anonymous said...

I am not normally one to beg, but I beg of you good sir to fashion this into some sort of a wallpaper if you have the time.

Anonymous said...

Seems like a lot of calls for wallpaper. Kudos again for some great work.

Anyone else see Star Wars Animated Series Season 3: The Chrnonicles of Boba Fett?

Anonymous said...

Your work ceases to amaze, looking forward to the Wired piece.

Tiny shout out from Shanghai, China haha.

Anonymous said...

Everything is off alignment, his chest plate faces a completely different direction than his legs, his arms are two different lengths with the shorter of the two being very very funky as his shoulder is slanted. The armor looks wacky as all hell and his lower leg is longer than his upper leg. All in all, just redo it before you colorize.

Anonymous said...

Boba looks great there, Gabe. Someone ought to email Karen and let her know.

Kato - Boba's Wookiee scalps are on his right shoulder, which is facing away from us in that picture. They're in the crease between his pectoral plate and his upper arm and under his cape. It's a matter of perspective.

Dark Knight - Jango had a set of armor with full cuisses (thigh plates) and greaves (shin and calf); Boba has the large pocketed fatigues bloused into low boots like a paratrooper, with armored kneepads.

Boba's stance is easily replicable in person. The picture accounts for perspective, giving it depth, instead of being a flat bas-relief. Boba's left leg is at 12 o'clock, his torso turned toward 1-2 o'clock, his head and right foot to 3-4 o'clock. It's a relaxed but ready stance to move or fight from.

Anonymous said...

And pardon for speaking like a know it all; those are just my thoughts when I looked at the picture.

Sorry, ought to let the artist speak for himself.

Anonymous said...

'Oy, just gotta say I dig it bunches. Your style is always fun and loose, but I think this particular piece could stand to be more dynamic, as right now you've got a lot of contradicting jagged lines that don't really lead anywhere, man. All in all, I'm sure it'll kick ass no matter what you do with it, though.

Ever been to ConceptArt.Org? Lots of professionals from different fields hang around on the forums there. Y'might enjoy it.

Anonymous said...

James,

I thought that was a reference to Wednesday's comic on her blog, not this particular piece... I may have missed it, though.

FDisk said...

I hope you have time to color it Mike, because that's a pretty damn cool Fett drawing. If you don't end up coloring could you at least post the inks so the rest of us can have a stab at it? :)

Anonymous said...

You're doing something for Wired Magazine?

Don't feed the evil that is News Corp, Gabe!

Gabriel said...

Haha, I'm so glad he likes it.

It's funny, Scott Kurtz called me after I put this up and told me Boba Fett sucks. He said Boba did nothing but stand around and look stupid. I asked if he liked Han Solo and he said "of course, Han is awesome". I said "well Boba Fett turned him into a paper weight" :)

SPOILER WARNINGS FOR BLOODLINES.

I don't want to spoil anything for people not finished with Bloodlines yet. But I will say I was hoping Boba would have chosen a more uh...hands on approach to dealing with Jacen. Tycho and I argued about this for a while but I gotta say, I think Boba could take him.

It's the whole "could batman beat superman" question. Experience and brains vs. raw power. Boba vs. Jacen could be one hell of a fight.

Anonymous said...

It reminds me of an awesome Fett I bought from this guy Rak

Anonymous said...

I agree, Gabe. While Jacen has power, can he deal with Boba Fetts honed ability, and experience. I personaly think that Boba would win, but this may just be bias because I always hated Jacen. Boba is in my opinion the best meshed out Star Wars charcter.

lionzub said...

I bet that would make for an awesome wallpaper if coloured in. So Bloodlines is a good read then eh?

Anonymous said...

Gabe, i need a wall of that jam you did with the guy that makes usugi!

you showed us at pax and i took a photo. i love it to death.


-Gavin

Anonymous said...

You call that nerding out? I once had a massive argument withh a freind over what was the best sci-fi out of Stargate SG-1, Star Wars, and Star Trek. I was going for Star Trek, but I still enjoy Star Wars. In the end, we came to one point and one only: That Stargate Atlantis sucked. And this was an on/off argument that went for three days.

Optimus Skiver said...

Oh now that is just adorable! I bet he's totally standing in front of something on flames with that "let the fuggers burn" kind of attitude of his.

He's one of my heroes... :)

Anonymous said...

And Batman doesn't have anywhere NEAR the firepower that Mr. Fett carries on a daily basis, much less when he goes hunting for Jedi. Fett mentions having many lightsaber trophies - he didn't get those at the swap meet, people.

Anonymous said...

I just wonder if a blind guy is going to come up to him and beat him as bad as Han Solo did. Yes, I went there. Boba Fett and his family of degenerate clone family are among the saddest creations ever.

Anonymous said...

I just wonder if a blind guy is going to come up to him and beat him as bad as Han Solo did. Yes, I went there. Boba Fett and his family of degenerate clone family are among the saddest creations ever.

Anonymous said...

This actually a dumb thought. Possibly even cliched all to hell and gone...

...but, Gabe, I'd like to see you take on Grievous. Your angles that everyone's bitching about here would be EXTREMELY apropos for GG.

(Not that the Fett sketch isn't a beaut.)

Eric said...

Your artwork makes me happy... I just would like to put that out there...

Susu said...

Cool, do you paint as well?

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:o)

Lady_T said...

You got skills!

msquared said...

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THe Ordinary Adventures of Tomas

LeaRaeJohnson said...

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Andrew Glazebrook said...

Great stuff !! Mandalorians are cool !

Vladimir said...

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Scuse me but I can not wuite in English

Matt said...

sweet

Anonymous said...

This is great art. I'm a Uk school teacher in Art (grades 3-7)... When how and who got you into this style of drawing. I know some kids who'd love to practise this style, and I'd love to encourage them.

High Power Rocketry said...

: )

update said...

Your work is elegant.

Anonymous said...

I like it. Who are you?

Anonymous said...

that's some cool artwork...

Anonymous said...

It's nice and I like it very much because of it's simplicity.

Anonymous said...

It's nice and I like it very much because of it's simplicity.

BEPenfriends said...

Hey its a good sketch. You have nice sketching skills. Good to see your blog.

Can you do some designs for my blog which is something like blogger only (Going to be released for public) now it is private only my blog is present.

Albert
http://blogs.bepenfriends.com/bepenfriends

Sister Mary Martha said...

Maybe a talent like yours could do some updates on the lives of the saints.
http://www.catholic-forum.com/SAINTS/saintb11.htm

Take it or leave it... said...

I really like your style. Very impressive.

If I try something like this it always ended up in a catastrophy.

Clare said...

Well done on making Blogs of Note -- enjoy the tidal wave of adoring comments. And the Fett looks cool -- very louche.

The Angry Medic said...

hubba hubba. I hope lucas is reading this blog, seeing as he's got nothing much else to do. might as well hire you to take care of another animated series than start that crappy TV series about Luke's Adventures As A Lonely Teenage Boy.

Anonymous said...

.......the art of peace is medicine for a sick world.....morihei ueshiba.

Oberon said...

.......heaven is right where you are standing......morihei ueshiba.

Anonymous said...

To be fair, Vader is the one that turned Han into a paperweight, against Fett’s wishes I might add. All Fett did was lead Vader to the Falcon.
He also died a 3 Stooges styled death, and the only reason he’s back is because Lucas gave into fanboyism and let them make it so in the expanded universe his armor saved him from the Sarlac pit.

I’m not saying the character isn’t cool. I’m saying he was poorly written in the films.

Anonymous said...

I noticed that today's PA comic had this character in it, I liked how he turned out!

Anonymous said...

good one! nice

Anonymous said...

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Err... I kinda think he/she was joking man. Have a look at the profile :)

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