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Happy Star Wars Day!

Well, was yesterday and I posted this Hoth maze from the book all over my social media.

Below is the sketch for the maze. You can see it is very similar! Phil Szostak, content and asset specialist at Lucasfilm, asked me to rotate the Millennium Falcon and add additional snowspeeders.

The yellow lines are the gutter. Though the book can open flat and my publisher is has excellent precision, I wanted to be sure there were no bridges or vertical paths in this area.

All the mazes in the book had to be canon or canon adjacent. I made adjustments to create a fun maze in my style, but it was important to feel like the recognizable Star Wars from the films.

I used tons of research! Screen grabs from the film, 3d model references, images from the Battlefront video game, Wookieepedia, and the DK Star Wars Locations books. The Hans Jenssen cross-section of Echo Base is amazing! His illustration includes much more than I needed and a lot of information not in the film. It was especially helpful because relationships between the scenes is never shown in the movie. Jenssen’s illustration is the best, canon-approved overview I found.

These people are drawn 600dpi, so are very small on the page! They look jagged because soft, anti-alias lines are not so friendly for print. Also much easier to work with my preferred flat colors

While doing research, I found this cool picture of director Irvin Kershner on a tauntaun

Some References:
Wookieepedia- Echo Base
Hans Jenssen- Illustrator, Star Wars locations
Star Wars: Complete Locations - Book

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays everyone! If you got From Here To There today, Hooray!! I encourage everyone not to draw in the book, but use your finger or something pointy, so you can explore the mazes again and again.

If you’re visiting this page for the first time, let me be the first to tell you about my upcoming book, Star Wars Mazes, available in July!

Star Wars Mazes, a new book by Sean C. Jackson, arriving July 2021

Currently, the name on all the bookshop websites is misspelled Staw Wars Mazes, which is hysterical. I’m sure my publisher will update that on Monday. Hopefully they are not all on vacation until January 4!

PRE-ORDER BOOKSHOP.ORG pre-order amazon

Pre-orders are great because it gives stores an idea of the interest in a book. They can make sure to have enough copies available when the book comes out in July. If you we shopping this year for my current book, From Here To There, you might have noticed the book sold out everywhere! I feel like a lot of folks had a sad, mazeless Christmas. Don’t let that happen to you! Pre-order today!

Merry Christmas

Happy Holidays everyone! If you got From Here To There today, Hooray!! I encourage everyone not to draw in the book, but use your finger or something pointy, so you can explore the mazes again and again.

If you’re visiting this page for the first time, let me be the first to tell you about my upcoming book, Star Wars Mazes, available in July!

Star Wars Mazes, a new book by Sean C. Jackson, arriving July 2021

Currently, the name on all the bookshop websites is misspelled Staw Wars Mazes, which is hysterical. I’m sure my publisher will update that on Monday. Hopefully they are not all on vacation until January 4!

PRE-ORDER BOOKSHOP.ORG




pre-order amazon

Pre-orders are great because it gives stores an idea of the interest in a book. They can make sure to have enough copies available when the book comes out in July. If you we shopping this year for my current book, From Here To There, you might have noticed the book sold out everywhere! I feel like a lot of folks had a sad, mazeless Christmas. Don’t let that happen to you! Pre-order today!

Mando Maze Featured on Origami Yoda!

Origami Yoda is one of my favorite books. So imagine my delight when author Tom Angleberger asked if he could post one of my Mandalorian fan art mazes on his Origami Yoda page! Turns out, in addition to being a huge Star Wars fan, he also loves mazes!
Read the post at Origami Yoda —>
While there, check out all the great Star Wars origami finger puppets and neat games he has collected. The website is packed with fun stuff. If you haven’t read the book, or have kids who have not, order The Strange Case of Origami Yoda right now!

I celebrated by creating my first OY finger puppet! Instructions to make your own are on the Origami Yoda website!

My first OY finger puppet! Ask him anything!

New Watercolor Paintings

I’ve been having a blast with Dr. Ph Martin’s Dyes! These colors are super bright and look lovely when combined with brown or sepia ink. Here are some smaller mazes and mini-mazes that I’ve played with since the completion of my super-secret project. Several of these originals are now available on my shop, and would make a great present for maze-loving family or friends!

Autumn 2020

Sorry I’ve been so quiet! It has been interesting times. If we wind the clock back to March, I posted a bunch of coloring pages for all the kids stuck at home. Since I tossed out some more this week, I thought I’d put a link to my downloads here and maybe add some links to other cool coloring pages of artists I follow.

Coloring pages from other artists

Cinta Vidal (line studies for her amazing paintings)
Jen Bartel (6 pages of Sailor Moon)
Graphix (Bone, Dogman, etc)
Steve McDonald (hot architecture from his books)
Robert Wilson (Transformers, Ultraman)

The Guardian

The Guardian Online did a little profile on my work, with a collection of some of my recent mazes: Link->
There was a section in the Sunday Observer too!

Parasite

The movie, Parasite, is absolutely wild. I went into it cold, only knowing it was created by Bong Joon Ho, the director for Snowpiercer, and that it has 99% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Inktober!

I knew I’d only be hitting the first few days of Inktober this year, but it was fun to do some black and white ink and wash mazes. I used prompts from Mab Graves Drawlloween Club

Day 1. Vampire. Vampire -> lower right

Day 2. Catacombs. Upper left -> lower left

Day 3. Bat. Center tree-> lower right

Day 5. Huntress. Huntress -> hunted

Stickers

Vinyl stickers from Sticker Mule. Available in my shop