Astral Queen prison cell concept drawings

In the final part of our Astral Queen series, we have two concept drawings for both the cell block and corridor of the ship, first seen in Season 1’s “Bastille Day“. Both by Ken Rabehl, these are scans from the original hand-drawn artwork on vellum paper.

As I may have said before, the physically hand-drawn (as in pencil to paper) production artwork is rare in the Battlestar Galactica universe, simply because the artists on the show went digital near the beginning of Season 2.

So while there are cool concept drawings available for the remainder of the series, they are all digital, making these original hand-drawn physical ones extremely rare for this series—and extremely valuable for collectors who like production art.

Without further ado, here are scans of those concept drawings, and beneath them you will see how things ended looking up on screen.

Ken Rabehl’s concept drawing of a cell block on the Astral Queen.

Two views of the cell block seen in “Bastille Day”. (Note that brightness has been tweaked in order to enhance visibility of details. “Natural” environment is darker.)

Ken Rabehl’s concept for a corridor of the Astral Queen.

Marines sweeping a corridor of the Astral Queen during their insertion.

Hope you guys have enjoyed these so far. Come back tomorrow for a peek at some original concept drawings of the interior of the Cylon basestar meant for “Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Part II“.