Star wars tusken raider

TUSKEN RAIDER

Luke carefully makes his way to the top of a rock ridge and scans the canyon with his electrobinoculars. He spots the two riderless Banthas. Threepio struggles up behind the young adventurer.

Tusken Rider

In between work drawing of a Tusken Raider Huntress. Had a lot of fun with this one, really enjoyed looking through The Wildlife of Star Wars book and referencing the different alien species native to Tatooine. The drawings Terryl Whitlatch created for this book gave the universe so much depth, so I wanted to add some of them in this piece.

Tusken Raiders, less formally referred to as Sand People or simply as Tuskens, were a nomadic sentient species indigenous to the desert planet Tatooine, where they were often hostile to local settlers. Tusken children were called Uli-ah. The name of Tusken Raiders was acquired much later, due to a period of concerted attacks on the settlement called Fort Tusken around eight decades before 19 BBY. One tribe captured the bounty hunter Boba Fett, but they accepted him into their tribe after he…