May the Schwartz be with You.

41. Christian Waggoner

Surreal painter of Star Wars.  He lives in Atlanta and got his start by painting commissioned portraits of the athletes of the 1996 Olympic games.  His work is about light and reflection which is able to show really well on the masked Star Wars characters.

I like how he is not really using JUST black in this Vader.  There are reds, browns, blues, and oranges in there.  I could learn from this.  Same goes for his C3-PO.

42. Amy Beth Christenson

FEMALE Star Wars concept artist born in 1977.  She went to the Kansas City Art Institute.  Voted by Microsoft to be the Top Female in Art 2010.  As of 2011 she is actually working for LucasArts as a concept designer.  She was selected to do a painting for the 30th anniversary of the Empire Strikes Back.

 I love the amount of detail she shows in her work.  There is so much information communicated in her work like the buildings, the fire, the glowing on the light saber.  Look at the faint AT-ATs (grey robot dog looking things) in the background.  I like her compositions.  Plus, she is a female in a male dominated fandom.  Represent!

43. Greg Peltz

Technical director at Pixar, Greg has done these really cool steam punk Victorian esque Star Wars portraits.  The 24 year old has painted these images entirely in Photoshop.  He says that he loves working with traditional media, but you can't beat the fastness of a computer when you have an idea going.  Interview!

Civil War General Vader, I guess this is kind of what I was trying to do with my LEGO man drawing.  I want to do some of these!