Inspiration: Ralph McQuarrie, Concept Artist

  















Ralph McQuarrie, the artist who transformed George Lucas’s  earliest scripts into lush, vivid images of intergalactic expanse and light-saber combat that became the visual core of the “Star Wars” saga, died on Saturday at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 82. 
     Lucas:  “Ralph McQuarrie was the first person I hired to help me envision ‘Star Wars, 
     When words  could not convey my ideas, I could always point to one of Ralph’s fabulous  
     illustrations and say, ‘Do it like this.’ ” 
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/movies/ralph-mcquarrie-artist-behind-star-wars-dies-at-82.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
Slideshow of Star Wars Concept Art by McQuarrie:
http://starwars.com/news/ralph_mcquarrie_remembered.html