Star Wars: Dark Sacrifice is a two-part story I'm been writing off and on that takes place within the Star Wars universe. This is a cover I've designed to accompany Part One. A lot of work went into this piece.

First, I created the star-field by taking a black layer and adding 'noise', adjusting the Threshold and finally adding a 'blur'.

For the characters, I scanned various photos of actors from the films. I have to give most credit to Star Wars Insider magazine. In fact, I used three different photos of Ewan McGregor to portray three of the characters. The large photo on the left is Ewan as the story's villain, Darth Magnus. Using a publicity shot of the actor, I 'desaturated' it to give his skin that 'dead' look, trimmed off some hair, added the mustache and bushy eyebrows, and finally a lense flare to his right eye for that 'evil' effect.

The two figures at the bottom were actually Liam Neeson and McGregor in a scene from Episode One. I added some shaggy hair and beard to Ewan to create my character, Arcus, then took a headshot of Admiral Ackbar and placed it over Neeson's to create the Jedi Master Qarr. Ditto for the hands.

The rest were minor alterations. I added the beard to Ewan's Obi-Wan and placed some gray in his hair. The hologram of Palpatine was a still from Episode One. The Imperial Shuttle and Tie Fighters were from stills from the original trilogy, and the planet is Earth.