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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

Star Wars Artists : Corinne Roberts

June is Star Wars Artists Month! We are celebrating all the magic that illustrators and visual artists bring to the fan community. Today we talk about Corinne Roberts, a weaver of magic and wonder to both kids and adults alike. Her subject matter spans a wide array of fan favorites, and Star Wars is just one of them.

Corinne Roberts is the creator of Bug Bites (published by Source Point Press), silent sequence comic adventure Out and About and children’s book Trip to Trekka. Along with her books she illustrated the game Unreal Estate and webcomic series, Kitty Game.

What drew you to illustrating Star Wars as a subject:

Adventure, new worlds and creatures. All of those things in Star Wars captured my imagination and launched me into creating my own adventures in new worlds. The most inspiring artist of the Star Wars universe is Ralph McQuarrie. His concept work and paintings still amaze me and was a main reason I wanted to learn how to paint (although all my illustrations are in watercolor and pen – unlike McQuarrie’s) He was a master of mood, composition and storytelling which I reflect on constantly and gave Star Wars a rich platform that has truly grown into a universe of stories.

Favorite pieces:
I attached my favorite “fanart” pieces of Star Wars. (To be clear – they are fanart – I’ve never had a book deal with Lucas/Disney)
I also attached a piece from my recent book, “Bug Bites”, so you can see my work of an adventure into a new world.
I also attached a single shot painting of a city/scene – which I love doing

You can find more of my artwork and store on my site:
www.corinneroberts.com
I’m also on:
Facebook: Corinne Roberts
Instagram: corinneroberts123

Star Wars Artists : Darrin Brege

This June we are celebrating STAR WARS ARTIST MONTH.
Every day we post an artist who has dazzled us with their amazing work. Get to know them, give them a shout-out, and find out where you can help support them!

Today’s artist is Darrin Brege! Darrin is an illustrator, creative director, voice over artist, comic, and public speaker. Along with his wife Karen they’ve published numerous books notably the Mick Morris series.He has designed numerous Lucasfilm approved works including jersey designs for multiple sports teams. He’s worked for all the big dogs including Disney, Coke, Starbucks, and others but his real passion is fandom art and boy does he shine there!

He’s even found the time to design multiple patches for R2-KT and the 501st, which benefit numerous charities, including JJ Abrams ‘Force For Change,’ Make A Wish, and ‘The Peter Mayhew Foundation.’

Darrin’s family is all about imagination, creativity, and a positive outlook on life – they are a dynamic team and we are so proud of their accomplishments. We are even more proud to call him a friend of the Star Wars community!

You can order a wide array of stunning prints and artwork by Darrin over at his page at the Fine Art America site:
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/darrin-brege
I have several hanging in my house!

And check out his personal website for even more gorgeous work: www.darrinbrege.com

Remember: buy authentic art, not that garbage from bootleg dealers. Support our artists and bring some magic into your home!

Star Wars Artist Month : Tsuneo Sanda

(Photo by Miquel Llop/NurPhoto) (Photo by NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

We kick it off with the man himself: Tsuneo Sanda, a legendary master who has illustrated countless prints, posters, comic covers, and other illustrations for Lucasfilm and in doing so captured the essence of the Star Wars magic with his keen eye for detail seen through a magical prism of color and light.

Tsuneo Sanda was born in Osaka, Japan. Artist Tsuneo Sanda was born in Osaka, Japan. He first came to Tokyo at age 23, and has been there ever since. He lives in a rural, residential town about 20km west of Tokyo with his wife, Sachicko, two sons, Kensaku and Sohei, and Vivian, their American Shorthair cat. Sanda first discovered his love for art at the age of 7. His early idols include Rembrandt, Rene Magritte, Paul Davis and Robert Peak.

A Star Wars fan since 1977’s A New Hope, he describes the film as “filled with dreams”. The saga continues to be “a part of my brain cells” even today. “The first few moments of each episode overwhelm me,” Sanda says, “exploding in my head like brilliant fireworks.”

Mr. Sanda is also a huge friend and supporter of Star Wars fan clubs and has partnered with them and R2-KT on numerous occasions to show his love for fans worldwide. And we love him too!

Order approved artwork on his official website: www.sandaworld.com
You can follow Tsuneo Sanda on twitter at @bokusanda
And like his page and follow it to see more extraordinary work:
https://www.facebook.com/tsuneo.sanda