A few more coloring book pages for you from my story times at work. The Three Billy Goats Gruff and a late happy Thanksgiving from Mark Eberhardt Illustration! (click on the links to the left for full-size printable pages.)

Who's this coloring book page for?

You of course!
Feel free to print and color this fall-themed drawing! Send me a picture of it if you do!

Download the full picture here.

It's been a while.
I'm still working, mostly on my comic. My next post will be some comic sketches. For now, have a Rocketeer.

Here is the second in a series about a young witch's travels.


This one is a re-do of a piece I did during my time at SCAD. Expect more adventures of the young witch in the future.

More of a series of images than a comic, I did this for a contest on an astronomy equipment website.

It's been a little while since my last post, but I've been waiting out the family's birthdays so I could post these here without spoiling any surprises. I'm hoping to have these cards up for sale at some point soon.



In other news, I still don't have a very good scanner. I have a few more pieces to post, but would rather wait for higher quality scans. I can post some previews for you though.

Here's a new painting. Nothing much more to say.
Working on a pair of pieces that I'll post some time soon.

I just got a new iPod - my first touch screen device, I know I'm behind the times - and have been playing around with making art on it. Inspired by Jorge Colombo's work for the New Yorker and the work of a former professor of mine, John Bavaro, I downloaded the Brushes app and have been practicing at a new medium.

I first started working from photographs.



Then moved to images out of my head.


And finally began to work observationally, treating my pod like a sketchbook.


I enjoy trying new media. I'm fairly proficient in Photoshop and was able to use this app similarly. I still prefer to work traditionally, but this is a fun change of pace and I'll post more when I do more.

Jonathan Stroud has written some of my favorite books including the Bartimaeus Trilogy (now the Bartimaeus Sequence). I recently finished reading his newest, The Ring of Solomon. The book was action packed and there were plenty of interesting scenes, but one image that stuck in my mind throughout the entire book is one where some of our characters first meet.



I like the product - done in ink and coffee on cold press paper - though I think I may do it again in watercolor on a larger scale so I can be more detailed.

I just finished teaching a pair of art classes for kids ages eight to thirteen, and I thought I would share some of the great work my students did.
My first class was about making comic books. Each student had a comic book done by the end of the six class sessions. Here are some of my favorites.




My second class was about making picture books. I only had a few students in the class, but they made some great books during our two month class period. All three students wrote and illustrated ghost stories. Aidan's "crazyman" story was hilarious. And Kyndra came up with some amazing compositions in her story about the Arts Castle's ghost.




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