Recent personal project

Can you believe the illustration above was created using a sharp knife? Neither could I. Scratchboard or scraperboard is a technique where drawings are created using sharp knives and tools for etch…

Mark Summers

Author, Author (Charles Dickens) ~

Composers Caricatures.

Edgar Allan Poe You've probably seen the wonderful portraits of famous authors at your local Barnes & Noble. Ever wonder who made them and how? Behance spoke with the man behind the pictures, scratchboard artist Mark Summers: Can you describe your process in creating this project? I work in scratchboard so, all of these portraits started off as a square of black. I use an X-acto knife to scratch the white lines into the black, giving it an engraved look. There have been questions sent to me…

Edgar Allan Poe You've probably seen the wonderful portraits of famous authors at your local Barnes & Noble. Ever wonder who made them and how? Behance spoke with the man behind the pictures, scratchboard artist Mark Summers: Can you describe your process in creating this project? I work in scratchboard so, all of these portraits started off as a square of black. I use an X-acto knife to scratch the white lines into the black, giving it an engraved look. There have been questions sent to me…

People looking left and right

John Calvin the source of many a tortured soul.

Mark Kozelek