Visions of a Dark Lord

Assignment 1-Still Art 1
Charcoal-9 hours

For our first assignment the instructor mentioned that we should do something that we have an interest in. Since I'm a huge Star Wars fan I decided to put something together a little Vaderish.
One of my my previous Graphic Design school instructors taught you can't break the rules unless you know them. I never understood what she meant until this assignment. I purposely broke several rules with this assignment:
1. Only have one light source. The lightsaber qualifies as an object and a light source.
2. Don't have anything just hanging in midair. Darth Vader's TIE-X Advance is a perfect example of something that could be suspended in the air.
3. Have your objects interacting with each other. Even though they don't really touch the direction of Vader's stare cross with the direction of the TIE and the lightsaber - so they interact with each other dead center in the middle of the board.
Also, I wanted Vader's cape to be one of the objects. As I started my draping in the background I noticed that with a little direction it made a perfect cape. So, the background almost becomes a fourth object.
The inspiration of having the objects floating off of the page actually came from a student in my Design History class, who did the exact same thing on one of his assignments.