NEW CLASSES STARTING...

NEW CLASSES:

Another session of classes has or is about to conclude leaving new opportunities coming up shortly:

Animation Union/A.A.I.: Tuesdays - 7:00-10:00

COSTUMED GESTURE DRAWING (WITH CHARACTER)
•STARTING September 11th.



LAAFA: Wednesdays - 7:00-10:00
CHARACTER DESIGN CLASS
•STARTING October 17th.



3Kicks: Fridays - 7:30-10:30
GESTURE DRAWING WITH AN EMPHASIS ON STORYTELLING (FIGURE & COSTUME)
•STARTING October 8th.

(-coffee is most certainly provided-)

Best,  

            MAC

iSpy.

Last nights "Sketch and Release's" @ Disney.

Recent 3-Minute Marker Sketches

Recent Costumed Gesture Drawing (With Character) session talking about using two line weights and maker to complete your statement - 3 Minute Sketches.


MAC

Figuratively Speaking, with Style.

Here's a 3-Minute figurative quick sketch I did @ Disney while talking about being able to alter your style by choice AND by what medium you choose to use. This is very similar to what I was speaking about two post (but with the figure) - in the "Thursday Night Walt Disney Company Sketches" post.

MAC

Thursday Night Walt Disney Company Sketches

• This is from last nights Thursday night drawing class I instruct @ The Walt Disney Company. • 

The 5-minute sketch above was done Pastel while talking about how to capture a more "Classical," Disneyesque story-sketch feeling to Costumed Gesture Drawing (with my typical personal extra push to focus on added Character and Personality to ones sketches).

(This sketch was actually done from a previous pose that I had the model take the pose again, so please excuse the minor changes in the posing - which I pushed farther to make it stronger!)
           
•  Pushing and "Plus-ing" is a must when doing Costumed Gesture Drawing with an emphasis on Character and Personality!) •

Here I was talking about using a more aggressive/story-driven sketch which focused on including the essential elements of the personality of the background and the world the character is acting in and "staging" it in a way that adds to the story of the pose and that beat!


Best,

MAC

Recent Costumed Gesture Drawing Sketches

I don't often get a chance to draw as often as I would like when I teach. 


- These sketches were done while talking about how it's VERY important to add a touch of an individual personal take on something that seems overtly generic now-a-days. -

•(This individual take is to focus on how you would like to apply these drawings and what specific task you preform at the studio, or...what you would like to do in the future.)•

 The above first sketch was the first I did talking about proportions and how to control a sense of "worldly realism."  This meaning, make the character feel like he, she, it belongs and exists in it's own personalized world that you could repeat the same set of principles in multiple drawings and designs.  This was an example of adding a touch of character to the face and stick hand to make it live in a more animation-friendly world with more realistic proportions.  This is something that is very prevalent in many more Feature animations, than a show for Television. From here I did the next three drawings talking about how it's VERY important to add a touch of an individual personal take on something that seems overtly generic now-a-days.

And these were pure joy to play with more of a sense of character.






- MAC

Back in Action

Here's some doodles from yesterday while on my lunch break @ the good 'ol local Starbucks.

A big THANK YOU to all that came out and said hello while at Comic-Con 2012! It really was fantastic and I was very happy to see the new Convention Only Sketchbook: Oodles of Doodles 01 did so well in it's debut!

Thanks,




MAC

COMIC-CON 2012 IS HERE, Exclusively!

Cre8tivemarks-Motivarti Mentorship

Don't miss out:

http://motivarti.org/mentorship-program/mark-mcdonnell/

WONDERing Where I'll Be? - Table I-05

 It's here.....

Oodles of Doodles 01 - A Limited Edition Sketchbook

My new 9x7 sketchbook: Oodles of Doodles 01, that will be debuting at this years Comic-Con - ARRIVED TODAY!

• This will only be sold at Conventions and is a very limited edition of 500 copies with no reprinting to be done once their sold out......don't wait, I'm sure they'll go fast. •


Happy Weekend,


MAC

Disney Workshop/Lecture @ The L.A. Zoo

 I recently had the privilege of being invited to lead a lecture and day-workshop for a group of artists from both Disney TVA and Disney Toon Studios at the Los Angeles Zoo.  It was a pretty nice day indeed.  From the 32 artists, you can see there were 6 left at the end.  This makes the official start to SUMMER here in California! 


MAC

I'll be instructing a new class very soon that is focused again on storytelling, in both figurative work (the nude figure) as well as clothed in various themed costumes @ 3Kicks in Pasadena on Friday evenings from 7:30-10:30.  Limited space is available:

http://3kickstudio.com/

MAC

it begins......www.laafa.org

Here's a character from something I have been developing lately.

•  Luckily, it was perfect timing and allowed me to utilize an idea I had thought about for quite some time and bend it to the will of Brett Bean and Justin Rodriguez's ALMIGHT "Think Tank."

Subjec:  - The Element of Water! -

On Deck today:

Some beasts of burden.....

What's On Deck - 01

MAC

Testudine Dossier 01

For a higher rez version, please click the link: Brother's One of The Four

New Friday Class: IMAGINATIVE COSTUMED QUICK SKETCH @ 3Kicks

Hey Guys,

This is the last reminder for a new class I'll be instructing - "IMAGINATIVE COSTUMED QUICK SKETCH" @ 3Kicks Studio in Pasadena this Spring.

This (10-week session) begins:
Friday - 04/13/2012
7:30-10:30

There are limited spaces available and the cut-line will be in a few days:

It's a very intimate environment that allows a real one-on-one atmosphere. And for those asking about my next CHARACTER DESIGN class, I will be instructing a new one @ LAAFA sometime in the near future. Just ironing out the kinks.


Here's the link:
http://www.3kickstudio.com/class_schedule/

Moebius Tribute Print for SD

Two birds with one stone as it were....I'm happy to say I've joined the "The Think Tank," Brett Bean and Justin Rodriguez's creative brain child and with it, a nod to the fantastic Morbius.

With the challenge, I was thinking about creating a few new prints to offer @ this year's Comic-Con 2012 in San Diego, I thought about many of the things that I was attracted to when I was a child. I feel in love with the film Willow (along with many others) but it was really a magazing that I found that had some development artwork in it that really made me attracted to the film even more. It just happened to be an artist named Moebius? Was that really a name, someone's REAL name?

Years later I found out who he was and what he was amazingly capable of.....a lot! So, here's a new print that's a thank you to the magical Moebius done in my own vision. It's just my way of saying........ thank you.

He really was spectacular.

MAC




Below is some of the artwork that inspired me (from a Starlog Magazine):