Born in, 1977 to John and Virginia Petersen, in San Jose, California. When he was three his family moved to Reno, Nevada. He has spent the majority of his life mastering the art of illustration, color theory, layout, and design. Married in 1998 he was shortly thereafter enrolled in the Art Instruction Schools. After attending the Art Instruction Schools, Shawn then attended Truckee Meadows Community College, after the birth of his third son. Enrolled in TMCC's Graphic Communications program he became familiar with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Fireworks just to name a few. After moving to Logan, Utah in 2004 he attended Bridgerland Applied Technology College, where he was able to hone his skills in these programs as well as in HTML and various Internet programming languages.
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