Hylobon enforcer is another one of the illustrations I made for the Star Wars game by Fantasy Flight Games, once again set in the Solo movie.

I know I’ve been posting mostly Star Wars stuff as of recent.
But well, I’ve done a whole lot of it so you’ll have to bear with me with this for a little longer.

As I said last time, while I worked on this set of illustrations I had to re-watch Solo half a dozen times.
I wasn’t super familiar with the lore around it at the time, so every time I read a brief my reaction was a variation of “Hylobon enforcer? What the hell is that?”.

Well it turns out that Hylobon Enforcers were the apes-looking guys that were at the service of Dryden Vos, the figurehead leader of the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate, and we see them for the first time in the Solo movie.

I later learned that the true leader of this criminal enterprise was in fact Darth Maul (I really didn’t get what he had to do with it in the movie).
In fact, he remained their leader until his death by the hand of Obi-Wan Kenobi a few years later.

Oh wait, I painted that too!

Anyway, the brief was about a generic Hylobon Enforcer looking though while standing guard.

While re-watching the movie I found out I really liked the design of Dryden Vos’ “throne room”.

Well technically it wasn’t a throne room, as there was no throne in it, and he was no king.

In fact, and I really want to stress this out, Dryden Vos was just a puppet. I can’t believe it took me like fourth views to figure that out.

Either way, those circular windows were a perfect design element to frame a character with, so I couldn’t help placing my Hylobon Enforcer right in front of it.

On top of it providing a very convenient (and setting-consistent) graphical frame, it also allows a nice view of the scenic mountain chains behind. So there it is.

I have to point out (because I was very fastidious with it), that for the gun I took as a reference an official model from the movie.

Fans tend to be really quick to point out inconsistencies, so I try to be as accurate as possible with these details when I have the chance.

by Paolo Puggioni