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Peter Ledger (25 October 1945 – 18 November 1994) was an Australian commercial airbrush artist and illustrator. ==Biography== In addition to studying art, Ledger worked with surveying teams in the Australian outback, hunted deer for the government in New Zealand, was a professional scuba diver, a leathermaker and a gourmet cook. He raced motorcycles, flew hot air balloons, was a body builder, and in later years became a private pilot. Legder rose to the top as an illustrator in Australia, famous for his intricate airbrush work and fantasy images. Ledger prepared the graphics for the 1974 Australian film, ''Stone'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stone (1974) )〕 as well as the 1976 film, ''Oz''. In 1977, he won the 'Art Directors Silver Award' for his stunning ''Surfabout'' poster. Also in 1977, one of his posters for ''Golden Breed'' (an Australian surfing apparel brand) was honored in the Graphis yearbook of award-winning posters from around the world. In 1979 he won an Australian King of Pop award for 'Best Album Cover Design' for The Angels' album ''Face to Face''. From around 1978–1979, he lived in New York and worked for Marvel Comics. One of his contributions to the comic book field was the first fully painted and airbrushed work on the series, ''Weirdworld: Warriors of the Shadow Realm''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Peter Ledger )〕 In 1981, he moved to Los Angeles to work on a project funded by George Lucas and Gary Kurtz. It was a coffee table art book of ''Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times,'' as written and drawn by Carl Barks. Ledger was a big fan of Barks' duck art. His contribution was to hand-paint and airbrush all the stories.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Other Syudios Animation Art )〕 He met writer Christy Marx for the second time in that year. They were married on Catalina Island in March 1983. They worked together on comic book, movie and game projects for a total of thirteen years. As a team, they produced a number of comic book stories, such as ''Carlos McLlyr'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eclipse Monthly (1983) #8 )〕 and ''The Sisterhood of Steel'' graphic novel. Ledger worked in the film and television business, mainly doing storyboards and preproduction design. He painted robot suits and designed aliens for the movie ''The Ice Pirates''. He created the first ''Babylon 5'' logo, did the first character illustrations and an initial painting of the B5 station. J. Michael Straczynski used this art while selling the series. Ledger loved planes and his particular deep interest, since he was a boy, was the German planes of World War II, most especially the amazing jet aircraft developed during the war. In 1988, Ledger and his wife travelled to Bonn, Germany to have his limited edition aviation print signed by famous German World War II ace, Adolf Galland. Toward the end of 1988, Ledger and Christy started working on computer games for Sierra On-Line. He created the art for ''Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail'' (1990 – Sierra On-Line), ''Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriach'' (1992 – Tsunami Media Inc), ''Blue Force'' (1993 – Tsunami Media Inc) and ''Blood & Magic'' (1996 – Interplay Productions Inc). From about 1990 on, Ledger concentrated on doing large wall murals and trompe-l'œil paintings. He partnered with British artist, Susie Wilson. Together, they created many trompe l'oiel works in the Fresno, Oakhurst, and Monterey areas. Most are in private homes, but some of their work can be seen at Castillo's Mexican Restaurant in Oakhurst, California, on the way to Yosemite: jungle scenes, desert scenes, parrots, a pteradactyl bursting in through an open (trompe-l'œil) window. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Ledger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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