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Star Wars Artist Month – Jason Christman

The Star Wars franchise has offered us so many mind-blowing scenes, images locked into our minds for a lifetime. And yet, it is the artists that expand our imagination even more – unlocking new scenes or reinventing favorite scenes in all new styles and interpretations. What a dizzying array of beauty we are treated to, all thanks to these hard working and vastly talented people. So Star Wars Artist Month celebrates one each day. And today is all about Jason Christman!

Jason W Christman has a minimalist and vintage style that is inspired by a number of searingly sci-fi, unapologetically geeky pop-culture touchstones from Metropolis to Star Wars.

Born in 1971 he was raised in Oregon, and like most kids around his age his Dad took his to go see Star Wars. Since then it has set the tone for his long creative career. In the late 80′s moved to Southern California to become a photographer and darkroom guru who realized the potential of the digital world when Photoshop came to be. In the 90′s he was mentored by LightWorks Productions founder Richard Mclean. In 1998 Jason set off to become a successful freelancing Creative Director getting gigs with some of the west coast’s best advertising agencies, publications and companies. At the same time he opened a gallery in the Pomona Arts Colony where he could share some of his favorite art, music and movies with everyone he could.

In 2005 he moved back to Oregon to raise a family. His love of Star Wars never faded and when his son was born in 2009 he promptly named him Kaiden Skywalker. Around that time he started creating some minimalist designs of his favorite sci-fi memories, from Star Wars, Firefly, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Dr Who and more.

After years of digging, research and rejection he eventually found the right door to get his work licensed. In 2011 Lucasfilm approved his minimalist ship quote series and since then he has had over 30 licensed limited edition prints including being one of the artists selected to have an exclusive print the last 4 Star Wars Celebrations.

“I specifically design my pieces with the hope to inspire others. Just a few words, recognizable shapes, a pleasing color palette, light and a touch of texture can set a tone and feeling for people who are not even big Star Wars fans.” Says Jason… “For different reasons, I hear from people all the time telling me how this was the first sci-fi print they were able to hang in their entry way or living room and not just in their geek cave.”

“Family is everything. My son and I are building an R-series astromech together and he is becoming quite a great artist/designer himself with his own youtube channel. It makes me a very proud father! Having both my son and father with me at Celebration in Chicago last year was one of the best moments in my life and career. They got to feel the love that Star Wars fans and their communities can give. It is incredibly inspiring and has sparked something in all of us to do more for others. Every chance I have to support someone or a group like the 501 I jump on it. The Cloud City Garrison has recently made me an honorary member, but the honor is all mine. I hope we are able to have many more moments like these again soon.”

My official store and website : www.jasonwchristman.com
Instagram @starwarsartist https://www.instagram.com/starwarsartist
YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/kaidenskywalker

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Many thanks to our partners at Jedi News, Fantha Tracks, Rebel Scum, Force.Net, and Bantha Bricks for supporting SWAM 2020 and sharing our posts. What a great way to share the magic of the art community! Check them out and see just how big the galaxy really is!

Star Wars Artist Month : Gina Canady

Gina Canady is an illustrator, concept and textile designer. She is a single mother, grandmother and illustration student from the Academy of Art University. Gina loves creating illustrations and designs for a great many things, including one of her strongest loves for Star Wars.

“I remember when my dad took me to see Star Wars for the first time in 1977. I was instantly hooked! I would study any star wars art that I could get my hands on, from books to comics I poured over the Art of Star Wars, The Empire strikes back till the binding broke and the pages started falling out. I still have that book and still use it to study the amazing images that were used in the movie. It has always inspired me how beautifully diverse the Star Wars Universe is and how hope can come from anyone and any place.“

Gina spends a lot of her time studying, working on her artistic skills, while creating art and star wars inspired art to make people smile and in the hopes of one day getting the opportunity to work for Disney and Lucas Films. Gina works in traditional and digital media and you can check out more of her work at https://runyajade.wixsite.com/serenitystudios and you can hire Gina for new designs and illustration work by emailing her at , RunyaJade@gmail.com
facebook.com/JadeRunyaArt

Many thanks to our partners at Jedi News, Fantha Tracks, Rebel Scum, and Force.Net for supporting SWAM 2020 and sharing our posts. What a great way to share the magic of the art community! Check them out and see just how big the galaxy really is!

Star Wars Artist Month : Becka Seashols

Becka Seashols aka Beckadoodles is an illustrator, designer, author, and crafter. She is known for creating extremely cute characters, mostly cats, and drawing adorable fan art from a variety of popular fandoms. She also designs cross stitch patterns and authors kids books and coloring books. Becka started drawing as a kid, imitating comics like Garfield and Peanuts straight out of the Sunday paper. For years she drew her favorite characters like Chewbacca, R2-D2, Strawberry Shortcake, and all the My Little Ponies, in her school notebooks. It was inevitable she would eventually venture into a career as an illustrator and artist.

In 2009, Becka started work on sketchcards for Topps and was finally, officially drawing Chewbacca and R2! And other Star Wars characters too! This was a great accomplishment, since her childhood was filled with paper towel tube lightsaber duels with her big brother, and pig tails turned into Princess Leia buns on the school playground. She spent a lot of time playing out her favorite scenes from memory, since VHS tapes weren’t available for her to rewatch the movies until she was in junior high. So all those scenes were sketched out and colored with crayons and watercolor and taped to her bedroom wall. The love of Star Wars continued into adulthood and was passed down to her son, who was one year old when Phatom Menace was released. They are now both, giant fans of Star Wars and spend a lot of time reading, watching, and drawing their favorite galaxy, far, far away.

Becka is active on social media, has an Etsy shop, and sells t-shirts, and housewares on a variety of websites. She also has a Patreon where you can support her creative endeavors.
Here’s a link to a list of popular Beckadoodles sites for shopping or information https://linktr.ee/beckadoodles and you can always reach out to Becka on her main website https://www.beckadoodles.com/ or her very active facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Beckadoodlestheartofcute

Star Wars Artist Month : Eric Siebeneck

Illustrator Eric Siebeneck (Findlay, OH) has had art published in the Star Wars Insider magazine as well as starwars.com. However, most fans may be familiar with his work on designing collectible patches, shirts, pins, stickers, etc. for Lucasfilm approved fan clubs like the 501st Legion, Rebel Legion, R2-KT and others. Eric was also hired by documentary filmmaker Cris Macht for his third film “The Walkers Among Us” and reality series “The Real Fans of the Saga”. Cris is well known within the Star Wars community as being the director/producer of “The Force Among Us” and sequel “The Force Within Us”. All four projects can be seen on Amazon Prime Video. Cris is currently producing a Zoom interview series posted on YouTube titled “Machtails from the Cantina”. Eric not only created the logo design, but will also be a future guest on the show.

Siebeneck’s love of Star Wars was given a second life when George Lucas released the Special Edition in 1997. After graduating from BGSU, with a degree in Visual Communication Technology in ’98, Eric spent the next 20 years in the website design/development/marketing world. But it was his childhood love of Star Wars, now as an adult, which pushed him into the direction of designing and illustrating Stars Wars art. However in 2018, Eric reinvented himself and obtained his CDL, thus beginning a second career. He is currently a local driver (home nightly) for a trucking company out of Findlay, Ohio. Siebeneck is proud to be an essential worker helping keep our economy going during these difficult times.

Merch site: https://www.redbubble.com/people/siebo/shop
Sci-fi/Comic art: https://www.deviantart.com/siebo7
Fine art: https://www.deviantart.com/siebeneck