San Francisco Sketch Dump!

Freshly back from Cali-FOR-NI-EH!!!! Did a lot of location sketches of San Francisco, some with my pal Matt Jones.

Karate LVL: WHITE BELT

After the first few months of Karate, I am nearly ripe to graduate from White Belt to Yellow Belt. For those who don't know, this is similar to going from SK to Grade 1.... but WAY more epic! Despite the fact that white belt is basically the LVL 0 of Karate I prefer to think of myself as a White Ninja Assassin, much like Storm Shadow from GI JOE. 

Back in The Saddle

Hey all,

It's been a while since I've posted. I took an unintended hiatus from sketching for a while but now I'm back at it full force. Here is a collection of some of my latest subway sketches.

Cheers!

-Mark

28 Days Later: The even NEWER and MORE improved Me

After 28 days I am STILL running every morning and my transformation is nearly complete!

No more "artists renderings" are required... here are the latest available photos:

!!!!!! ***please note that the validity of these photos have not yet been officially verified but experts in the field believe them to be 100% authentic.

You are all most certainly wondering, now that I have achieved the body and copyright infringements of a modern day He-man what is next? There can't possibly be anything better than He-Man...right?.... WRONG! Unbeknownst to society, phase two of my unbelievably epic transformation has already begun! That's right.... I have officially joined a Karate class!(Before you even THINK about asking, NO!! I AM NOT IN A KARATE CLASS WITH

LITTLE CHILDREN!!!!) Here is my class photo taken on the first day:

In just a matter of weeks I will complete another glorious metamorphosis into none other than BRUCE LEE-HE MAN! .........................................................................................................................

Now that you've had a second to let this earth shattering scientific fact sink in to your cerebral cortex, I have once again hired only the top artistic and scientific minds to give you a minuscule glimpse into what my future almost certainly holds:

WEEK 01:

WEEK 02:
WEEK 03:

and beyond????!!!! .....

A Bloody Mess

Here is some progress for a new digital painting I am working on. It's not entirely completed but I wanted to post it and I will update the post when its 100% done. This one is obviously more finished, but I also think more successful than the last one.

***UPDATE- Added final B+W version

Cheers!

-Mark

Watch The Throne

I recently started this painting of Tyrion from Game of Thrones. It's been a few years since I've done a digital painting so it felt amazing to get back into it! I started getting a bit bored with this painting so I shelved it for now but thought it was still worth posting. Maybe when Season 2 starts up it'll get me hyped to finish. Until then, I am looking forward to posting many more paintings in the near future!

Cheers

-Mark

The New and Improved Me

Recently I have decided to whip myself into shape! I have often been compared to Seth Rogen in the past but I prefer to think of myself as a white Gumby with a slight pot belly. (See above) However for a record number of 4 days!!!!!!!! I have been running and exercising every morning. Based on my own calculations and confirmed by our societies top experts, it's only a matter of weeks or maybe even DAYS before I complete a massive and highly impressive transformation. No one can know forsure what I might look like but I have done an "artists rendering" as to how I believe I will look in 2 weeks from now:

I will be stuff of legends and several unrelated entertainment contracts will fall at my doorstep. TV and Movie deals, Record Deals, Novels, Screenplays, you name it! This is what the action figure will look like:

At this point, I will sue Hasbro or whoever else owns the rights to He Man for creating him in my image. Then I will live out the rest of my life on a tropical beach somewhere. It will look something like this: