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Starbuckby `diablo2003

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I'm attending the Star Wars Fan Days this weekend October 20-21( [link] ) as a guest artist and I wanted to do something for the show. There's a lot of artwork out there most as posters, lithographs or prints so I wanted to do something different. While watching The original Star wars I realized that talk of money is thrown around quite a lot but you never actually see it (other than Han flipping the bartender a coin after shooting Greedo). I thought it would be cool to design a piece of Imperial currency as I saw it. I designed it mostly after American money but used some European influences as well.

Hope you dig!
-Mark

Myspace: myspace.com/markbrooksart

Star Wars and all characters are copyright Lucasfilm

EDIT: Thanks for all the comments guys! I didn't really expect this type of response from the piece but I'm happy you guya are digging it. Just to answer a couple of questions I've seen repeated a lot, Darth Vader was used on the 1 credit bill for the same reason the most famous American, George Washington, was used on the one dollar bill. It's the first standard credit the Empire uses to measure it's rate to other currency so I used the most recognizable figure from Star Wars. The Death Star is is under construction instead of a completed Death Star to show the growth of the Empire and it's ever expanding reach. It's symbolic more than anything else. Yes, they probably used universal credit cards or something else but I thought this would be cool, nothing more, nothing less.

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~DEGIOmatrix23 Jan 2, 2013

amazing !!..now with those i can pay my universitary studies! xD..THANKS!

~oliviermdb44 Dec 9, 2012

Excellent work !

~OmegaManLegend Nov 8, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Cold, hard "Vaders" are always preferred over "Galactic Credits"!

p.s. need to add Mickey Mouse logos now that teh 'Universe' has been sold and taken over.

~l33tn3rdz May 23, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

I really love the way you created Vader and the scene on the back. It actually looks like a real intaglio printout! The details are consistent hand tooled engraving. If you put this on an actual engraving plate, the pictures would look so real that even me, a bank note expert would not be able to tell that it was made as a fan project. All you need now is a more engraved looking border and you will have a fully print ready banknote!