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shawnerussell

Wildlife/Fantasy Illustrator
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My Bio

Shawn is an award winning wildlife and fantasy illustrator creating detailed depictions of animals melded with flora and fungi in symbiotic relationships. She touches on her biracial Chinese American heritage in her Chinese Zodiac series. Her work is primarily created with mechanical pencil, and ink.


Her illustrations highlight animal species with endangered status as a way to appreciate their natural beauty and raise awareness for the urgent need of conservation. She explores life cycles within biomes by posing plants and fungi with primarily predatory animals in symbiotic relationships alluding to natural processes of decomposition, regrowth and renewal in the natural world as a way to process imbalances in human politics.

So I had my baby! About 4 months ago. I've been off social media for a while and have been on break from making art to take care of my amazing daughter Esther :heart:. My husband and I are adjusting well to the new normal of having a baby. Esther's started to sleep for longer periods of time which has allowed me to start drawing again! The limited free time has helped me to set my priorities straight and somehow spend more time drawing now than before Esther arrived, since procrastination is no longer an option :). Anyways, hopefully I'll be back to posting more regularly. Have a great weekend everyone! (In August we went to Gen Con in Ind
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I don't do many journal entries, but I'm super excited to acknowledge that I participated in the Good Dinosaur Contest and to have been named a Semi-Finalist! I'm so grateful for all of the kind comments and encouragement <3 I've never even come close to winning a contest before so I am super excited by it :) I'm so impressed with the winners' submissions and the other semi-finalists who I can tell worked really hard. Congratulations to everyone who won! It was so fun to even just participate and be a part of the excitement of this contest :) In other news, my husband and I found out a few months ago that I'm pregnant with our first child
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So while I haven't much on here at the moment, and no one is really following me, but I still feel compelled to write about how excited I am to be married to my husband for a whole year now! We got married May 24th 2014, and yesterday was our one year anniversary. As of now, we've been together for nearly 4 and a half years. I'm so excited. We spent our morning at church, listening to the first service, and investing in our Sunday School kids for the second service. I think I feel the most alive when I'm at our church, it's honestly the first place I've felt accepted and worthy of love. Jesus is at work there, and He's provided an unreal amo
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I wish you all the best and love for your new year. 
         God bless you and keep you.
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Happy B-Day to you.Huggle! Heart 
Np. I was also going to enter but i decided not to. I'm waiting for something bigger to happen
Waiting for something you're really interested in helps you do better too :)
I just wanted to stop by to tell you that your art is absolutely stunning! The amount of detail, character and realism you put into your work is remarkable; I feel as if I'm looking at a black and white picture of the real thing. Keep up the magnificent work! :love: 
Thank you so much! What a sweet thing to say :blush: Thank you for the encouragement and support :)!