Kid Colt

Sketch done for Ten Ton Studios Weekly Sketch Challenge.

Invincible sketch

Just a sketch I did today.

Gears of War

Was asked to do a sketch of a character from a video game. I went with Marcus Fenix from GoW.

Nuclear Family

A sketch for a pin-up I was asked to do for a Horror anthology comic. Still need to add a background then I'll be inking and painting it in grayscale. I had a much more gruesome idea in mind for the baby and mom, but my wife forbid me from drawing it. Probably for the best.

BAMF!

Daily sketch for 6/5/08. Nightcrawler, done in Painter X.

It was recently brought to my attention that my faces were lacking when it came to expressions and emotions so I've begun keeping a mirror next to my monitor. I think it's been helping and that it shows in the last few sketches I've done.

I spent a lot of time here on the face and I'm really happy with it. And since Nightcrawler is one of my favorite characters I think I'm going to stop doing daily sketches for a little bit and actually just work on turning this sketch into a finished digital painting. Stay tuned...

Cheese and Double D's

Today's daily sketch. Captain Marvel (aka The Big Red Cheese) and Daredevil (DD).

Character Concept

This is a quick concept sketch of Gardner Orlando, one of the main characters of a Sci-Fi story I am writing. Pencils with grayscale added in PS7.

Ahoy-hoy!!

Welcome to my sketchblog. I'll be using this mainly as a place to post artwork and updates about what's going on with my life, mainly my progress towards being a published artist. As of right now I've quit my 9 to 5 job and am currently taking care of my three-month-old daughter. I use what little time is left of my day to further my career in the art field with hopes of either self-publishing my own comic book or getting work from an established company. I am also doing commission work and any inquiries can be sent to themarkroberts@hotmail.com concerning that.

I am most comfortable with a pencil and paper but have lately been moving more and more into digital stuff involving Photoshop and Painter. With the wealth of tutorials available on the internet; learning these programs hasn't been terribly difficult. In addition to experimenting digitally I've been hard at work updating my portfolio to present to editors, writing my own comic, and am putting together a small sample sketchbook which I will be handing out at local Sacramento comic-cons. The first of these cons takes place on May 3rd, which also happens to be Free Comic Book Day, and I will have a table there.

The works above are examples of recent work.