Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Expanding Fronts - Collector's Edition (Personal/School Project)

For our final project in a class this semester, we had a choice of two assignments: create a cartoon-like character, or a detailed collector's edition, with promotional imagery and all. Given that I love doing illustration work, and had been putting off some personal projects for a while, I chose the latter.

For this assignment, we had to either create a game or take an existing one, and imagine a Collector's Edition for it - What would it contain? We had to illustrate it, and the professor suggested looking at Limited Run's own Collector Editions (being familiar with them, I was instantly thrilled at the opportunity to imagine such a product, even if it was just for fun).

The mod team working on the Expanding Fronts mod for Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, have always been a team whose work I admired. I've been wanting to create for them some sort of key art, and saw this as the perfect opportunity to finally do so. I always saw this mod as being more of a real expansion to the game, than just a simple mod.

I also chose this project and chose Star Wars as my theme, as I knew that Disney/Lucasfilm create and release massive amounts of promotional images and art in the form of transparent PNG files (or with a simple white background) to promote their movies and sell related merchandise. As such, I figured that it should be pretty easy to create a box art for a Star Wars game or mod, especially one that emulates the imagery of past Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds box arts. After a few days of hard work, here is what I've ended up with! Personally, I'm pretty happy with the end result.