Upcoming "MERMAIDS" Gallery Girls Evening Workshop: Feb. 3rd (10-1 a.m.)

I'm happy to be a part and answer any questions as well as selling and signing books @ this upcoming Gallery Girls Workshop @ Gallery Godo, with model's Jennifer Fabos and Sara Streeter . . . and it doesn't get any better than that.

Best,

MAC

New Uploaded Video: Experimenting with PrismaColor Pencils - 02

Hey Guys with the digital world dominating our lives, I have found it is pretty important to continue to use traditional media that really can be transferred into our digital work (for look and feel, or otherwise),



As we're all gearing up for the beginning of the New Year, I decided to post an all new video in the realm of using different mediums and experimentation when creating gesture specific drawings for the Animation and Entertainment Industry. It's a quick over the shoulder view of a few drawings done with a PrismaColor Pencil and Ebony Pencil, as one is a wonderful waxy smooth pencil and the other has such a great range of light to dark all with one pencil making it so much fun to draw with. Any thoughts as to the importance of continuing to work traditionally outside of our digital work and if it is beneficial to any artists out there?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICfaHyT5xEo&list=UUF1LoZK3OHAH6mWy8yVigFA&index=1&feature=plcp
or
http://www.youtube.com/user/Cre8tivemark

All my best to everyone spanning the Artistic Globe,

MAC

NEW Classes Starting - 2012 Begins!

I'm happy to announce I will be teaching a new string of classes, beginning soon:

• 3Kicks: Fridays (7:30-10:30) - The class has just begun but you can get an adjusted rate.

and

• AAI/Animation Union: Tuesdays (7:30-10:30) - Starting Feb. 14th





The class will be directed toward how to approach Costumed Gesture Drawing for a direct application to the Animation and Entertainment Industry as well as be focusing on more of a storytelling method of thinking and how to pull the story out of the model in front of you - how to access the ideas that may be applied to your drawings.

Blue Canvas Magazine Release Launch

I was lucky enough to contribute to the launch of Blue Canvas' magazine release in downtown L.A. through one of the studios I instruct @, 3Kicks Studio in Pasadena. It was quite a thing to be interacting and drawing in front of a couple hundred people. I believe I did over 100 drawings that evening, all of which I gave away.

Recent FEMALE Figure Drawing - 2012

Here's a few recent 2-3 minute figure drawing sketches "on deck." I've been experimenting recently with pastels just for a nice change of pace as I have been inspired by one of the living masters, Karl Gnass.

MAC

Across the shores and down in the depths. . . I saw it. . .

- First posted sketch of 2012! -

Happy New Year,


MAC

Happy New Year - 2012!

Wishing every one a Happy New Year to those of you who Celebrate in this fashion.

All my best to everyone for a Happy Healthy 2012!,



MAC

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Here's a Halloween leftover. . .

New Video Uploaded: Experimenting with Different Mediums: Sharpie - 01

Here's a quick video on approaching sketching with a Sharpie pen while doing gesture drawing. This is the first one of this particular medium that I was happy to have it filmed by my buddy Carl Aspuria in "real time," as I know many people on my YouTube page were requesting to see the process in a one-to-one format.

• I just want to add, as artists we get set in our ways many times and we often do things that we're pretty comfortable at accomplishing. - Meaning we tend not to stray way from what's easier for us to do successfully. - This video is any example that sometimes it's nice to approach things differently, which you can see in how I'm gripping the pen in this demo. By holding the pen farther back in the initial stages, it gave me the ability to be more direct and chance my habitual drawing application.

Birds of a Feather. . . Too

Here's another pass of a different style for the little guys below for the WB.

Birds of a Feather. . .

Here's a few unused designs from a recent WB 3D kids project. These were the JPN "outside of the box" designs.

Motivarti Mentorship Opportunity

Motivarti.org

MAC

Winter 3Kicks Studios - Classes JAN. 2012

Hey Guys,

As the Winter is approaching us, (here in the States), some new studio sessions are going to begin and they generally fill quite fast.

I will be instructing Friday evenings from 7:30-10:30 as it's really a great time to know the weekend is coming as was requested from several of my students. It's a 10-week course that is entitled: Imaginative Costume Quick Sketch. In this class we will be using many different sources of inspiration and how to bend the information to your will and create scenarios that could be used in a Studio environment, simulating on-the-job training.

Classes begin - 01/13/2012-03/16/2012.

Best,

MAC

Cre8tivemarks @ CTN Animation Expo - 2011

Well that time of year has come again, and happily I'll be showing again at CTN in Burbank again this year. I'll have my new book and loads of sketches and original artwork available. This year Mark McDonnell/Cre8tivemarks will be at Table T-54, stop by and say hello if you're attending this year.

All my best to everyone and Happy "almost" Holiday's.


MAC

New Video Uploaded: Experimenting with Different Mediums: PrismaColor Pencils - 01

As we're all gearing up for the 3rd Annual CTN ANIMATION EXPO in Burbank California, I decided to post an all new video in the realm of using different mediums and experimentation when creating gesture specific drawings for the Animation and Entertainment Industry. It's a quick over the shoulder view of a few drawings done with a PrismaColor Pencil, as they are a wonderful waxy smooth pencil to draw with.




or

http://www.youtube.com/user/Cre8tivemark



All my best to everyone spanning the Artistic Globe,

MAC

Gallery Gala - This Saturday @ 7!

I'll be in a gallery show this weekend, Saturday November 5th. I'll be there with other extremely talented artists for the reception from 7-10 P.M. for the 3Kicks Studio crew.

The show will be hung from November 5th-28th @:
210 E. Main Street - Alhambra, CA 91801

www.gallerynucleus.com

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I had to get a couple of creature sketches in before Halloween. . . phew.

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Some more late night sketches for the Holiday.

Creatures-On-The-Go 01

Happy (Almost) Halloween,MAC

Mr. Beakly

A sketch caught at a local aviary while dining amongst friends.