Conceptual illustrator, Anthony Francisco ("Spider-Man"), updated his site with more concept art he created for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. Come see another design for Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel) and alternate designs for one of the Knowhere creatures.

Concept artist Justin Sweet created this amazingly cool series of art for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy movie. These are extremely different character designs than what we ended up seeing in the movie. These show a darker, more hardened version of what could have been. I

Early Drax concept art

Groot designs done for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.

Friends convinced me to have a Groot to go with my Rocket

I just recently saw the movie myself, it was awesome and really cool to see the character I sculpted so long ago off of some concept art finally in motion on the big screen. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the movie a lot and dig this figure, thanks for checking it out! :) Groot is property of Marvel/Disney and figure is property of Hasbro.

Concept Art from Marvel Studio I had fun sculpting for this great project with Hannah Kang

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