This Week’s Theme: Masters And Apprentices!

Exogorth concept art from The Empire Strikes Back

Ralph McQuarrie

Leia costume and hairstyle designs by Paul Le Blanc (art) and Patricia McDermott (image 1), and Nilo Rodis-Jamero (art) and Aggie Guerard Rodgers. (Rodgers did almost all of the costume designs for RETURN OF THE JEDI.)

The Gungan Sacred Place was a ancient construction on Naboo. It was of great significance to the Gungans, who used it as a meeting place and hiding spot in times of turmoil. It was full of stone monuments and ruins, and was the site of negotiation between Gungan and Naboo during the Battle of Naboo

Source: Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace Portfolio (1999)

First Appearance: Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (Episode I) Concept Art by Doug Chiang

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

According to early scripts, the original finale of “Return of the Jedi” would have been around the capital of the Empire, then named “Had Abbadon,” a planet that was one colossal city (an idea re-used in the prequels). The original threat was not one, but two death stars under construction in orbit around Had Abbadon, which also had a moon filled with life known as the Green Moon (which later on became Endor in the later drafts). Luke was taken by Vader to the Emperor’s palace and throne room on Had Abbadon, filled with lava. 

This was rewritten to streamline things and make the finale less ambitious, but Ralph McQuarrie did the art for the original concept.

Ralph McQuarrie

Star Wars ➞ Recycled Concept Art

Satine Kryze, Rig Nema, Queen Apailana, Tiplar, Mother Talzin

Luke Skywalker costume concept art for Return of the Jedi by Nilo Rodis-Jamero (1981)

Art by Ralph McQuarrie for Docking Bay 94. STAR WARS (1977).