Via Starwars.com:
Taking over for John Cassaday, Stuart Immonen’s upcoming role as the ongoing Star Wars series’ new artist with regular writer Jason Aaron — beginning with Star Wars #8 – prompted us to seek him out for his thoughts on the design work he’ll do on the book, as well as the particulars of the characters and everything else that makes Star Wars, well, Star Wars. (Part two of our interview is below, and part one can be found at Marvel.com.)

StarWars.com: Stuart, your likenesses for the characters are incredible: what’s your approach to them? What’s too little and how much is too much?

Stuart Immonen: That’s very kind, thank you; I still feel like I’m not quite close enough for my own satisfaction, even with a few issues under my belt. Our comics take place between Episodes IV and V, and I’m trying to keep the cast looking as much as possible the way they did in 1976-77, but the challenges are multi-fold, as the reference material available is automatically limited, and the features of the principals are not as easy to capture in their youthful state.

Regarding too little/too much… I don’t consciously ever back off from being as on-model as possible, but scale is a factor; for a mid- or distant-shot, resolution is finite. It becomes a game of millimeters and there’s only so much information I can deliver with the tools at hand. For a close-up, it’s a different matter — I can “splash out,” delineating the subtleties of lighting the planes of the face, nuances of the characters’ expressions and so on. It’s a work in progress, and as I relax into the job, the work is becoming easier and better.

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