Rationale

The Jawas are a scavenging race that find, fix then sell lost artifacts and machinery littered throughout the dessert. They build settlements in the mountains out of salvaged space crafts where they can tinker away out of danger from the tusken raiders. For my exterior scene I wanted to depicted a very large Jawa settlement built from huge ships once lost to the desert, now re-purposed as in strong living structure. The outposts in the mid and foreground mark a trail leading to the main township at the top of the canyon where the Jawa’s sell the recycled wares. For my Interior scene I depicted a small market township set up by a group of salvagers that have taken advantage of the customer traffic that purchase re-serviced tech from the Jawas. The market sells spare drone parts as a front for their gun trade.

The exterior scene is shot from lower levels of a canyon looking up past the outpost to the peak of the canyon where the main town resides. Rays of light from the Tatooine’s Two suns shine down past the structure, all this convey their monolithic scale. For my interior i used dim green lighting to show the griminess of the shady market, a bright light ray spilling in through the entrance aids the shifty mood through its contrast.

finals!

developments from abstract thumbnail to final image

master stud - tone, colour, composition

interesting bazaar reference

i like of having heaps of junk to sell everywhere even hanging from the roof. i could do the same only with drone parts in my market seedy scene

rock formations and desert lighting reference

cool light bounce lighting on the left, breaks up the cold shadow

this has great cold shadows and warm orange light 

Some reference for my space craft structures in my exterior

tatooine

the top three are from Tatooine and the rest is art of awesome scene for reference 

Awesome Jawa sand crawler. could be cool to incorporate one into my exterior

the picture above is a super good example of warm lights and cool shadows

I really love these rusted structures protruding from the sand. it would be cool to place my rusted space craft in the canyon in a way that they seem to fade in and out of Tatooines rock and sand so they look right at home where they are

the top three are from Tatooine and the rest is art of awesome scene for reference 

thumb nails with idea

abstract thumb nails

warm light and cool shadow study and my notes from the Tatooine reading material

2 suns

harsh dessert land scape

significant amount of smuggler traffic

scattered with debris from burning ship, crashed fighters, and broken hulks of battle cruisers

orange-tan planet

stained and desolate

landscape altering sand storms

badlands of the junland wastes - rocky canyons mesa roamed by sand people and tusksn raiders

the caves house marauders and hermits

Mos Eisley is the planets only “big city”

wretched hive of scum and villainy

haphazard array of low, fray steelcrete structures and semidomes at the bottom of a wide , windy basin surrounded by bluffs.

casinos

business legal or otherwise is conducted in seedy cantinas near the docking bay

the city is a meting pot of sentient creatures of all sorts

stormtrooper outpost is considered a necessary evil

Anchourhead - a smaller settlement

moisture farmers trading point

HOT AND DRY

water is the most precious commodity

underground dwellings with water collection devices

prosectors search for water oasis's

a rich and varied ecosystem

dewbacks are used moisture farmers as beasts on burden

The B’omarr monks built the citadel known now as Jabba’s Palace as a monastery, now live in the lower levels as the then uppers have been occupied by outlawers.

Once the monks have reached the final stage of enlightenment they no longer have any need for their physical body so they get the lesser monks to help shed their body surgically. the enlightened brain is removed and placed in a nutrient filled jar, to spend eternity in undistracted perpetual thought.

The Brains are stored on in wall cases and can telepathically tell robotic spider like legs to walk them around when they feel the need for a stroll

Jawas travel through the dessert in search of salvageable crashed spacecrafts from centuries of warfare. Jawa legend tell of a huge old republic water tanker that sot-landed in the dessert but the crew all died from gas poisoning from the ship. A find such as this would make the jaws who found it crazy rich.

They set up portable smelters to break down valuables for easy transport

Jawas live in thick walled fortresses made from large chunks of wrecked spacecraft

Tatooine Spit Paints