Every day we celebrate another artist in the Star Wars fan community. Who else lets us see beyond the movies into greater vistas of imagination? Hard working, talented adventurers who ply their trade in a mixture of mediums, tortured by the desire to capture that magic in their minds and share it with us. Let’s hear for our artists – unsung heroes who keep our imaginations alive! Today we shine the light on Angel Acosta, an artist from Mexico who has delighted fans with his vibrant colors and sense of hopeful exploration.
Angel Acosta is a Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Photographer in Sonora, México and member of the 501st Legion. But most of all he is a dreamer and he has loved to create cartoon characters since he was 6 years old. His influences include Charles Schultz (Peanuts), Jim Davis (Garfield), Peyo(Smurfs) and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
“The most important day in my life as a graphic artist was in 2004 when I met the Director, Producer and Animator Bill Melendez known for his work with Walt Disney and Charles M. Schultz (Charlie Brown). He was born in my hometown Sonora, México and a few weeks after our meeting he wrote me a letter with some encourage words about my work, ilustrations and toons.”
“I will never forget this words he wrote to me: ‘As a person who was once in the same place as you, you are very talented and just need to wait for the right opportunity'”.
“In 2015 I went to my first Star Wars Celebration and found the extraordinary and inspiring story or Katie Johnson and the R2KT droid. A couple of years later I decided to start painting in my free time more “Star Wars” than other themes; especially I love to paint helmets and put lot of bright colors in my art.”
“In 2017 I had the opportunity to give a set of my prints to Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian). In 2018 I showed my artwork to my friend Stephen Stanton, Voice Actor (General Raddus, Tarkin) and he gave me an important space in his Twitter to show my work to his followers.”
“In 2019 I began to search for a real inspiration in my artwork; you know, there are many talented artists that inspire me like Randy Martinez. I don’t have his extraordinary skills for painting and as a graphic artist so I started to feel the need to contribute with something different and special to the Star Wars community.”
“An internal voice told me to make “something” for the R2KT fans; that´s when I realize that my cartoonist skills they could work to make Katie Johnson toon character. I was so motivated about the idea to pay tribute to the brave little girl that thousands of people admires specially in the 501st Legion family.”
“A whole Katie story came to my head and I decided to create an imaginary comic book cover telling a story inside the Star Wars timeline, so I decided to introduce her living in Cloud City in a parallel story in the middle of The Empire Strikes Back.”
“I started to search for pictures of Katie to get my final version of her and a comic book cover art… Katie; in the Comic Book just like in the real life will teach us lessons of Hope, Trust, Adventure, Happiness, Leadership, Compassion in company of her droid R2-KT.”
“Last month I created a second concept art for the imaginary comic book Issue 2: “The Adventures of R2KT: Katie´s Army of Hope” dedicated to the Heroes on the First Front of the Pandemic.”
“I know my artwork and the cartoon character can be use to raise funds and reach thousands of hearts of Star Wars and R2KT fans. It would be an honor if Lucasfilm were to take this project using my version of Katie.”
“My next project will be to make an entire illustrated comic book or story book and want to make something real big to raise funds in collaboration with R2KT.com”
“Most of all I am a Dreamer and we only have one life to make dreams come true and inspire others.”
Online Store: www.aacreativestudio.com/online-store
email: infoaacreativestudio@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/foreveryourangel
Facebook Fan Page: Sonora Trooper
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