How To Draw A Death Star From Star Wars

How to draw a death star from the popular original star wars movies. the following photos are just a guide, but you can watch the video and see how I draw it too here How To Draw The Death Star

Paper and a circle template at the ready to draw

Draw a circle for the death star structure and a couple of smaller circles for the noticeable feature and also a curved line across the mid section and start to pencil in loose panels again curving to the spherical shape.

I used warm grey acrylic drawing ink watered down to create the moon like luminance again following the pencilled lines for the panels as it is a man made structure.

I painted a dark black band of acrylic black ink around the whole death star to make the whole thing stand out.

With a fine line ink pen I started to ink the panel lines giving a suggestion of some technical detail.

This bit was optional to turn this into the death star structure from The Return of the Jedi to one that is being rebuilt after it was destroyed in a New Hope - I used a fine point sharpie to ink criss cross lines which simulate fine threads of structured technical elements.

Again, here's the video if you want to watch through and see how I drew this popular Star Wars visual icon.