Artoo's gone Walkabout
Shockingly bad drawing opens our second chapter. I can't believe the lack of effort that went into that night sky in the top panel.
Threepio is either doing that 'Shielding the eyes' gesture that people do when trying to spot something - or scratchng his head. Either way, they're nice human touches.
Luke has the Kirk Douglas style dimple in the chin. In my young drawings, chin dimples always featured - by default. I think there might have been a fashion for them in the '70s when comic artists drew heroic types, and when TV and movie people cast them. After Star Wars, I certainly wished I had one. In olden times you could buy a device that clamped around your head, and by means of a thumb-screw it would press a dimple into the chin!
The discovery of Artoo here is pretty comical looking. Luke hands on hips, taps his foot in irritation. Note the way the ground obligingly dips to accommodate the landspeeder engine in the composition. Sir Anthony Blunt said something similarly sarcastic about a painting by Fra Angelico (I think it was...)
