Art of Marcus Parker

Portrait

2011-10-07T16:00:00.000-07:00

Nothing too crazy here. Just trying to keep the chops up, and keep this blog from being completely dormant. Just doodling around in photoshop, used a photo ref. I should do more quick paintings like this. It was pretty fun. Well...here's the first of hopefully many more to come. Until we meet again.

Buddy Buddy Buddy

2011-08-20T21:50:00.000-07:00

Buddy Rich..

2011-08-02T19:55:00.000-07:00

Posts

2011-07-27T19:16:00.000-07:00

keep coasting keep posting. Some studies from the last session...I'll put some digital work on here soon enough.

Life Drawing 7-17

2011-07-19T20:15:00.000-07:00

Here's a few of the long poses from this weeks session. Going in with a Pentel hybrid and a waterbrush. No Pencils..A few people asked me about he waterbrush I had. I feel bad for not knowing exactly what kind it was. Just got it at an art supply store. I love that thing though, you can take it anywhere!! There's probably a better quality one out there somewhere but I love these. Next time I'm at the art store I'll see what the brand was.

life drawing

2011-07-11T22:04:00.001-07:00

Hi there...I've been doing life drawing pretty consistently for a while now. Here's a few from last weeks sessions. The first ones are all under 5min some 2minute ones. Last few were 20 minutes. I had a chance to do some experimenting in these sessions so that's been really interesting. I'll definitely upload some drawing from previous sessions. there are soooo many. Any who recently I've been diving straight into my drawing with pen and ink. I'm really learning a lot about the way I draw by doing this. I think alot of time has been wasted on erasing and trying to get a line or mark down. When I am forced to commit and make it good the first time, there is way more energy in it. And I've definitely been surprised at the type of lines i've been getting with no hesitation or erasing.

P.S. Claire Wendling rocks my socks...literally just discovered her work today and I absolutely love it.

Taking the Bull by the Horns

2010-01-19T13:36:00.000-08:00

Started of a little sketch and took it further. I'm really bad at updating soo I decided to put this up. I'm going to try and post more often, even though I say that all the time. I got a good chance at it now since the new year is here. Stay tuned for more stuffz. Later

Seconds Bearfore Death

2009-10-18T16:20:00.000-07:00

Playin around one night , took it a little further in photoshop. I think this would make a nice silkscreen print. I like that little evil nose he's got goin on.

Don't lose Faith type

2009-08-09T00:14:00.000-07:00

Just playing with type...trying to keep my head on straight. oh yeh it's all hand generated... Gnight.

New Illo!!

2009-08-06T11:12:00.000-07:00

This is an illustration I finished for a contest. The topic was anything about emotions. I modeled the drawing after a playing card. The title I gave it was "Sometimes she's up, Sometimes she's down." Yeh I know, title's kind of long but wutever. I can't wait to get it printed because there's no top or bottom. I've been looking at those Moo cards you can get. I think I'm gonna get a set of these as self promo postcards. Kind of excited but we'll see tho. Right now I'm workin on an illustration about a bullfighter, should be fun! I should post more of my sketches here since it is a sketch blog.

Heeey!!!

2009-06-17T16:06:00.000-07:00

HEY! I was watching some old James Brown clips...and I mean old! Around the 60s and early 70s, but mostly 60s. The videos I watched were mostly on youtube. The lighting on the videos are soooo dramatic! They were shot in black and white so there's loads of contrast. JB was some performer...hehe some the tunes were pretty jammin too, a few i knew and some i didn't. Here's a quick sketch and the final, inked digitally.

Pinnochio sketch

2009-05-26T11:46:00.000-07:00

I may make a print of this...it started off as a sketch, I just took it a little further. Maybe i'll go back and illustrate this whole story, not sure yet. This topic is sort of interesting to me. Pinnochio's journey to achieve his goal of being a real boy. He had hope man...that's dope. This has me thinking about other stories I've heard as a child. I think I should revisit some of those basic stories and do some stuff off of those. Hey they had to be pretty good to have been around this loong. Wutev's we'll see wut happens. OUT!

BOMB Shelter

2009-03-23T10:41:00.000-07:00

Here's a Tshirt design I did for Infinity, an independent indoor percussion group. I was a part of a similar group formed by the same founders. Fun times...glad I could contribute. Check out their website Infinitypercussion.com

2009-03-18T07:48:00.000-07:00

Here's a sketch I did a few days ago. I penciled it on paper and inked it in photoshop. I'm not really sure where this is going but I thought it might be important to start posting my experimenting with this process. I'm pretty sure I'm going to illustrate a series of postcards soon here...just searching for some content. I want to use this sort of style because I want to silkscreen them (just ordered my new scoop coater!! Yeah!) More stuff to come soon!!

Self Promo!!

2009-02-13T14:48:00.001-08:00

So here's a self promo piece I did a little over a week ago. I've been meaning to post some pics so here they are. Since I now have a little more disposable time since I've been out of school I've been reminded of an old saying I used to hear growing up. "Idle time is the devil's playground". It's kind of funny how random this all happened. I saw this old wooden post card my girlfriend had in her room and I thought it was really cool. So...trying to do this as cheap as humanly possible, I found this wood in my garage (looked like part of a drawer or cabinet) and cut it up into postcard size sheets. I think the only purchase I made for this was for the transparency which was like 2 bucks. Well worth it in my opinion!

IF Contained...

2009-01-15T08:53:00.000-08:00

So decided to participate this week gigposters style... hope you enjoy.

-Marcus

Screencaps!!!

2008-12-30T17:53:00.000-08:00

So i read somewhere a while ago that a good source of refs are screencaps from movies. That in mind I just googled screencaps and came across some pretty cool images. Here I've drawn from a photo from a 70s James Bond film. I think I'm going to be doing alot more of these to practice my illustrating techniques. Soooo hopefully there'll be another soooon. PEACE!

whoops

2008-12-28T08:24:00.001-08:00

haha so yeh I was semi serious with that last post I guess. It's been a while yet again since I've posted anything, but I think I'm due now. I'm gonna post some life drawings I've been doing every couple of Saturdays. Really grateful that I can be in those sessions since I'm no longer a student. It's been cool, just still trying figure out the figure...and myself. I also tried my hand at drypoint etching. I bought a piece of plexiglass at home depot and went to work with an etching needle and some dentist tools. A friend of mine helped me use the press at the school before one of the life drawing sessions. I'm also thinking about making my own mini press. I saw some things online with a hydraulic jack and some rubber band things, but that will be a little later. Aight i'll post stuff later...I promise!!! one

*edit*
here's one of the drypoints i did. I had to scan cuz my camera's outta commission right now.

Uhh Finally something...Sail

2008-08-14T17:36:00.000-07:00

So I actually decided to follow through with this sketch blog. The first post is for the illustration Friday weeklies. This weeks topic is sail. Funny thing is that my friend said that he had a dream that he was flying, but I couldn't so he tried to help me. Eventually we crash into a pool and he just leaves with out me. I decided that I'd get up there without him in my illustration. Hah you!!!

-Marcus