deviantART: News: Marvel Illustrator: Mark Brooks

(click pic to see larger image at Mark Brooks gallery)

"If you haven’t checked out the amazing work of Mark Brooks (*diablo2003), you’re missing out. A professional artist (penciller and inker) for Marvel comics, we’re very lucky that Mark frequents deviantART and posts many of his creations for all to see. A penciller is responsible for interpreting the story, designing the characters down to even the smallest details, then creating the layouts that will become the blueprint for the comic. You don’t even have to be a comic fan to ‘marvel’ at his amazing work. Mark exists as proof that pursuing your passions and artistic tendencies can lead to a wildly successful career.

Since the age of 12, Mark has been drawing comic art and fine tuning his craft. Today, you can see his work in the major series’ Marvel Age Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man, Amazing Fantasy, Cable & Deadpool and Streetfighter. For Marvel Age Spider-Man, Mark was assigned the task of re-creating the classic tales from the 1960’s Spider-Man series. To do this, he utilized modern day elements combined with his own unique style to reinterpret the characters while staying true to the classic spirit. How’s that for a project? For the Amazing Fantasy series, Mark was given only a personality description for the characters, beyond that he had artistic freedom to design the visual aspects of basically the entire cast.

Did we mention that Mark Brooks will be just one of the speakers/instructors that we have lined up for the deviantART Academy during the Summit on June 17th and 18th? Please check out the deviantART Summit website (www.deviantartsummit.com) and sign up so that you can attend. Seats are limited."

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Beautiful artwork, lots more at Mark's gallery. I've loved comic book art since I was a tiny chitlin, and Mark's work is top notch.
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