Mark Dorn

Reboot

2010-03-19T22:09:00.000-07:00

Been many moons since my last post and much has changed. Been living in San Diego with my lovely wife and daughter and workin as an illustrator for E Factor Media, a marketing/ad agency in downtown SD...Anyhow, tryin to get back into workin on more personal projects and sketches so hopefully this reboot will keep the fire burnin.

This was a redo of a project at work...just tryin to explore a style different than my own.

greeting card

2007-12-23T18:07:00.001-08:00

messin around in Illustrator

2007-10-28T20:41:00.000-07:00

Trick or Treat

2007-10-12T16:54:00.000-07:00

A little girl who wanted to be a princess and some costume sketches.

Sketchbook

2007-10-11T15:58:00.000-07:00

Man it's been awhile...here's a guache sketch of a chapel in Oceanside.

Didjeridoo

2007-05-19T23:46:00.000-07:00

Took a picture of this guy at Balboa park playing a Didjeridoo. Very cool sounding instrument. This started as a speed paint but I ended up spendin about 2 hours on it.

original

paint

backyard sketchy

2007-05-19T19:51:00.002-07:00

Doodle

2007-05-19T16:02:00.000-07:00

Here's a doodle using Anthony's canvas brush he posted on his blog.

Rocksteady

2007-03-27T12:21:00.000-07:00

Here's a sketch for the Fish Barrel TMNT challenge. I need to go check the movie out.

Power Plant

2007-02-19T21:47:00.000-08:00

This is a sketch of the power plant in Carlsbad. I tried painting digitally on location but it didn't quite workout, so I finished at home from a photo I took.

mission sketch

2007-02-15T22:07:00.000-08:00

minotaur

2007-01-29T22:51:00.000-08:00

Bikers

2007-01-21T21:08:00.000-08:00

I did a drawing of a motorcycle in my sketchbook and then I thought it would be fun to do some biker character designs...more to come.

Speedpaint

2006-08-11T00:33:00.000-07:00

Did this after lunch at Pomegranate...took about an hour and a half

Freelance Illustration

2006-08-07T13:52:00.001-07:00

These are a couple pieces I did while freelancing for SJSU. They are visual aides for broadcasted course on Race class, and gender. The crossword is about racism and the other is about the importance of the timeframe of pregnancy compared with the rest of a woman's life.

2006-06-04T15:09:00.000-07:00

2006-06-04T15:06:00.000-07:00

2006-06-04T14:41:00.000-07:00

2006-06-04T14:35:00.000-07:00

2006-06-04T14:30:00.000-07:00

2006-05-22T12:40:00.000-07:00

2006-05-22T12:37:00.000-07:00

sea creature

2006-05-22T12:35:00.000-07:00

gremlin

2006-04-11T22:03:00.000-07:00

2006-04-11T21:57:00.000-07:00

Wolfpack

2006-04-10T00:16:00.000-07:00

This is scene of a pack of wolves who have come upon a pond to get some water. The rest of the pack doesn't pay any attention to the shack in the background, except for the leader of the pack. He realizes this is the shack where was confined to and abused by a miner when he was younger. He was chained to a tree but broke it and escaped, thus the log chained to his leg.

Chinese Hunter's Lodge

2006-04-09T23:57:00.000-07:00

This a design of a Chinese hunter's lodge based in the 16th Century. The owner is a general in the Chinese army and while taking breaks from hunting he would meet with his officers to plan out battles. This was a class assignment and one of the requisites was to have a fireplace. I found that Chinese didn't have fireplaces from that time period but incorporated it anyway. I hope it works.