About

Shawn Blackburn is a Houston artist working in graphite, charcoal, and digital media.

His path to the drawing table was not a straight one. He trained first as a scientist, earning a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology from the University of Pennsylvania, where he spent years studying how the immune system fights chronic viral infection. He then turned to law, graduating from Columbia Law School, clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and becoming a trial lawyer and partner at Susman Godfrey, where he litigates patent and commercial cases in courts across the country.

After years of neglect his daughter, Isadora, inspired him to pick up a pencil again. Shawn also writes and records music, sharing songs drawn from a lifetime of mistakes, grief, and gratitude on his YouTube channel, Blackburn Music. IsaRock Studios is where that work comes together.