"Today, StarWarsShop is proud to offer a limited edition fine art print of Princess Leia composed by Lucas Online's own senior designer, Craig Drake.
"I make sure lasers look good on the internet," jokes Drake, whose "The Princess" artwork print has been a personal pet project of his over the past year. When Drake first revealed the rough sketches to both the Online group and to StarWarsShop, the response was unanimous -- he must create a commercial print of the artwork, since, as children of the '80s, we all wanted one for our own collections.
For the uninitiated (or too young to remember), Drake's "The Princess" artwork is reminiscent of the pervasive style of illustrator Patrick Nagel, whose posters and prints became fixtures of interior design during the 1980s (older fans might remember the artist's famous cover illustration for Duran Duran's Rio album from 1982). There's also a hint of the guitar-strumming vamps of Robert Palmer's classic '80s "Addicted to Love" music video."