Mark Bartle ART Blog
Welcome to my blog! My aim is to provide useful content for artists and art lovers. In this art blog, I publish posts about illustration design, comic and fantasy art, drawing tutorials, drawing tools, sketching processes, art events, and more.
Explore free art tutorials, videos, trading card collections and other sources of inspiration. Let me know if you’d like me to post about specific topics, tutorials and drawing techniques.
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Latest Blog Posts
Greg Hildebrandt: Live Painting & Discussion
This week on Greg Hildebrandt's weekly Livestream. He will be starting a new painting in his "Kid Stuff" series and as always talking art.
Hipsters of the Coast: Spider-Man Villains
“Good morning, and welcome back to Masterpiece Theater here on Hipsters of the Coast for Parallels, a brand new series exploring Upper Deck’s Marvel Masterpieces from 2016-2020.”
How To Draw Spider-Man with Todd McFarlane
Famed Spawn creator and entrepreneur Todd McFarlane shows us how to draw Spider-Man.
Meet Me at OCC Pop-Up
Oz Comic-Con Sydney is Australia's premier pop culture and comic-con event. After the craziness of 2020, this year in March, Oz Comic-Con 2021 organises a POP UP Event in Sydney. Looking forward to seeing you there!
How To Draw Hulk (Part 2)
This is the second part of my Hulk video tutorial. Check out the LIVE stream of me drawing The Incredible HULK poster.
This part is about laying down the flat colors for this drawing of one of the most powerful comic book characters ever.
Grab a seat, enjoy and share your thoughts about this Hulk illustration!
⚡️ twitch.tv/markbartleart
Hulk Tutorial (Part 1): PENCILING Composition
The Hulk is a Marvel character (alter ego: Dr. Bruce Banner), one of the strongest beings ever. It was created in 1962 by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.
Check out this LIVE stream of me drawing The Incredible HULK poster. Grab a seat, enjoy and share your comments!
⚡️ twitch.tv/markbartleart
Should I Use Copic Markers?
Copic is a Japanese brand known for their refillable markers and with replaceable parts. Copic markers are the most popular alcohol-based markers used by professionals, artists and designers. In this blog post, I explain why I want to use Copic markers and how I think they would fit into my process.
Where Copic excels is that not only are they professional level markers that give consistent blends and vibrancy in colour but are also fully replaceable in parts and refillable.
Are you yourself a Copic marker user? And are they really that good?
The Art Of Drawing And Collecting Sketch Cards And Art Cards
Today collecting trading cards is a very niche hobby with sketch cards being a main aspect of it. A sketch card is a trading card with original one of a kind (not printed) artwork. Some artists prefer to keep the idea of a sketch card as literally that - à la 5 minute sketch. A sketch card is also a piece of art that can take however long and with as many mediums preferred.
Some members of the community have proposed that these more laboured sketch cards be called “Art Cards”. I think I fit into the more Art Card category. My personal process fits more comfortably into very detailed artwork while utilising up to or more than 3 mediums.
What is your experience with sketch cards? And what does collecting mean to you?
how to draw Thor Using Charcoal And Ink
Thor is a character from Marvel Comics belonging to the Avengers team. Literally the god of thunder, protector of Asgard and powerhouse (next to Hulk) for the Avengers. Considered traditionally a b-grade character in the comics and now popularized by the Marvel movies. Thor is part of the Pantheon of Norse Mythology.
Discover how to draw Thor: an easy 5-step process to draw Thor in grey scale, with cross hatching to create tonal or shading effects, including a tutorial video.
As Wolverine says: “ ‘nuff said!”