Jar Jar by Mitch Breitweiser

I'm in a deadline rush, so a quick sketch is all I had time for this week. It was great fun though. Keep up the great work, guys!

-mitch

JAR JAR BINKS by Francesco Francavilla

Click on it for bigger JarJarView!!!

It was definitely a challanging subject. I hope I made it cool nevertheless ;)
Thank you, Ramon :P

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2011 Francesco Francavilla

JAR JAR BINKS by Urbanbarbarian

Why did I bother...? I guess because the glass jar joke was already done. I hate Jar Jar. Is that wrong?

JAR JAR BINKS by tom fowler

i'm cheating a bit this week, but given that i'm fairly certain i'm the only twartist to have drawn jar jar professionally, i figured i earned the right to fudge this week a bit.


as andy mentioned in his post, there aren't a whole lot of ways to make jar jar cool. the best way i've found is not to show him at all. a few years back , while i was doing some star wars work, i proposed a short story set just before "a new hope". the main idea being that most of the rebels blamed jar jar for everything that had gone wrong in there universe, and that resentment had turned over time into a general prejudice against gungans, who themselves made it a point of honor to fight the hardest in the worst conditions to make up for this supposed debt. that set the scene for a "two-fisted tales/the losers" style story about one particularly hardcore unit of gungan warriors, going on a certain death mission that ultimately (so far as anyone in the story knew or cared) turned out to be meaningless.

not surprisingly, nobody went for it. whether because of the underlying theme of racism, or because it may have been a bit too meta, i don't know.

so why am i writing all this?

jar jar can lick my left nut...

... but gungans are fun to draw.

JAR JAR jar by Ron Salas

Sorry this is so gruesome but, really, who hasn't had this thought before?
I know Steve already did the Jar Jar joke but what the hell.

JAR JAR BINKS by Andy Kuhn

Originally I was going to do a jokey drawing of Jar Jar.

Then I thought it's way harder to make Jar Jar look cool than stupid.

It turns out the only way for me to make Jar Jar Binks look cool,

is to draw him really small on the page!

Thanks for looking.

JAR JAR BINKS by Steve Bryant

My jar of Jar Jar is ajar...

Jar Jar Dinks by Nathan Fairbairn

If I were slightly more ambitious, I'd mock up a title crawl for this thing:

STAR WARS

Episode III.V

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

JAR JAR BINKS by Chris Samnee

Yeah, this is all the Jar Jar I could muster. Even just drawing him made me angry...

Happy Birthday Comic Twart by Ron Salas

Ok, so I'm just posting my piece for Comic Twart's First Anniversary right now. I picked Thor, the character that started the whole thing.
I sketched something out for this a while back but it sucked so much I had to scrap it. I think the problem was me trying to draw Coipel's Thor, instead of John Buscema's.

Happy Birthday Comic Twart by Mr. Hawthorne

"Metal sharpens metal, right?"

That's essentially what my wife said to me after I rattled off all the reasons I gave her for wanting, and NOT wanting, to join the gents on Comic Twart. You see, Comic Twart began without me. Before the blog a few of the guys tossed characters around, drew them, then shared them on Twitter (One of these characters was Thor, who I chose to draw for Comic Twart's birthday since I wasn't there at the conception of the endeavor and didn't get to draw him with the fellas).

Having enjoyed that,the fellas decided to build a blog around a group of like-minded artist jamming on a new character every week. Before I knew it I was asked if I'd like to be a part of it. To be honest, I thought it was a bad idea for me to do so. I had a big graphic novel I was writing and drawing at Vertigo, Fear Agent to wrap up, a film to story board and a monthly Conan comic waiting in the wings (I also had a comic strip I wanted to start, which is still waiting for my attention... but that's besides the point).

So after going over all the reasons not to join my wife asks if there were any reasons I should join. I said that it would be fun and that it would push me to get better.

Which, if you know me, are my two biggest motivators.

I knew that I would be drawing things I'd NEVER draw on my own, (I didn't even know who the hell G.I. ROBOT before this!) and that would push me to work outside my comfort zone.

I'd also be drawing with a bunch of other guys who, although they were as busy as me, loved drawing so much that they were ready to jam. They were gonna have fun drawing, regardless of their work load. These amazing artist were also going to push me to try harder, and get better.

So, yeah..."Metal sharpens metal", indeed.

I decided to do it, and it's been one of the fulfilling and fun artistic experiences I've ever had.

Thanks for having me fellas, and Happy Birthday Comic Twart :-)

Best,
Mike