Asia Simone Blackshear

Teach drawing and draftsmanship with a focus on sequential storytelling fundamentals for animation students. Instruction includes composition and staging, character acting and volumetric drawing, on-model character construction across multiple views, animation principles, and practical workflow skills for animation production pipelines.

Create professional cartoon and narrative illustrations and sequential artwork, translating scripts and story concepts into expressive characters and engaging visual narratives. Develop artwork from ideation and sketches through polished final pieces, incorporating composition, staging, color theory, and visual storytelling. Collaborate with editors and art directors for feedback and revisions, adapt work to established styles and character models while maintaining consistency, and manage multiple projects while meeting publishing deadlines.

Guide students through the animation production pipeline while teaching the 12 principles of animation, including timing, posing, movement, and character acting. Teach character design through volumetric construction and model turnarounds, emphasizing dimensional consistency and accurate drawing from multiple angles, including style adaptation and drawing forms that support production readiness.