Guardians Of The Galaxy Concept Art Shows Unused Gamora And Nebula Character Designs

Earlier this month, we showed you some Guardians of the Galaxy concept art which revealed Star-Lord's comic book origins, as well as very different looking concept designs for Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Gamora, Drax and Star-Lord. Now concept artist Andy Park shares his early designs for Zoe Saldana's Gamora and Karen Gillan's Nebula from James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy, which look very different than what we saw in the final film. Hit the jump to see Park's unused Gamora and Nebula character designs.

Firs off, here is Andy Parks' Star Wars/Mad Max concept painting of the Guardians of the Galaxy cast, which he created at the start of the project:

I painted this @Guardians art at the start of the project. Saw it as StarWars/MadMax #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy #marvel pic.twitter.com/1e6J9lxE09

— Andy Park (@andyparkart) August 15, 2014

Here is Andy Park's early concept art designs for  Karen Gillan's Nebula:

Had the most fun working on #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy My fav was designing Nebula! @KarenGillan2 was badass! #marvel pic.twitter.com/yrjEmnev88

— Andy Park (@andyparkart) August 8, 2014

Here's another #Nebula design I did for @Guardians Too much fun to work on! She's a #badass #marvel #conceptart pic.twitter.com/01ccjU9la3

— Andy Park (@andyparkart) August 21, 2014

#Nebula design I painted for @Guardians focused less on sexy & more on "can kick your a$$" #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy pic.twitter.com/BEaay6W2cs

— Andy Park (@andyparkart) August 21, 2014

And another #Nebula from @Guardians I painted during the concept phase. #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy #marvel #TooMuchFun pic.twitter.com/XXEglGvxuf

— Andy Park (@andyparkart) August 25, 2014

Loved doing this #Nebula concept painting for @Guardians depicting the two sisters #Gamora #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy pic.twitter.com/KCmBEKN8Hh

— Andy Park (@andyparkart) August 25, 2014

Here is Andy Park's early concept art designs for Zoe Saldana's Gamora:

Most of my time on @Guardians was spent designing Gamora. Had tons of fun exploring her look #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy pic.twitter.com/XSq8kugBJL

— Andy Park (@andyparkart) August 11, 2014

Here's an early #Gamora design I did for @Guardians Before she had to be green #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy pic.twitter.com/2lfDhwk6Xk

— Andy Park (@andyparkart) August 12, 2014

I have to admit, I really prefer Andy Park's tattooed Gamora design than the design we saw in the finished film. Of course, I'm sure the make-up required for such a design would have taken a lot of work to apply. Sure, Dave Bautista was willing to sit 5 hours a day in the make-up chair, but a more accomplished actor like Zoe Saldana might not have been up for that task and had very different priorities when approaching her character's look.

If you want to learn more about the unseen or missed designs and characters of Guardians of the Galaxy, check out our comprehensive collection of easter eggs and trivia (which also features Spartoi planet concept art and the Badoon soldiers who were replaced in the film due to rights ownership issues with 20th Century Fox). Also check out Russ Fischer's Everything We Know About Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (so far) which talks about Nova's possible future in the series and more.