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Matt Busch: Rendering Chrome Quickly on a Star Wars Sketch Card

By Mark Newbold

February 12, 2025

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Following on from his hugely successful You Can Draw Star Wars series, Matt Busch is back with new episodes of Illustrating Star Wars, and this episode he shows us how to add the right colours to create a chrome effect.

Star Wars Artist Matt Busch shares tips for adding quick color to render chrome your sketch cards with this drawing of a Captain Phasma Funko Pop!

Be sure to check out our interview with Matt from way back in 2005 right here.

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Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.

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Following on from his hugely successful You Can Draw Star Wars series, Matt Busch is back with new episodes of Illustrating Star Wars, and this episode he shows us how to add the right colours to create a chrome effect.

Star Wars Artist Matt Busch shares tips for adding quick color to render chrome your sketch cards with this drawing of a Captain Phasma Funko Pop!

Be sure to check out our interview with Matt from way back in 2005 right here.

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Matt Busch

SourceMatt Busch

Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.

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