Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Secret City

I may have learned to draw by tracing comics, but Commander Mark made me the master-drawer I am today.



The guy was actually pretty great. He dealt out a lot of fairly advanced drawing concepts, but he did it a little at a time, so you never got lost. He'd show the occasional art history slide (accompanied here by the music right after the opening cutscene from a Super-Nintendo shooter), along with the occasional weird-ass plot point (4:55).

More here.

9 comments:

Ruby Tenneco said...

Woah! That is fascinating! There sure wasn't any of that gritty practical put-it-in-words kind of layout shit when I did 2D design!

Galspanic said...

D00d, Commander Mark saved my brain during the most boringest days of summer when I was in my mid teens. I definitely felt too "mature" to watch his show, but at the same time, I loved his style and his energy too much to care. What a fool I was for being embarrassed to watch this.

Galspanic said...

Wow...looking back at these episodes makes me realize how responsible This show was for the creation of the Workspace door, which I am sad to say I no longer seem to have a picture of. I would love to find a picture of that door. I remember my partner and I had planned to steal it from the building when we closed shop. Ah well.

Galspanic said...

By the way, Commander Mark is still kicking ass and taking names right

Galspanic said...

again with the html issue?
sigh, here's the link in crappy address form.
http://www.draw3d.com/

Mr. Pony said...

<a href="http://www.draw3d.com/">Link</a>

Galspanic said...

Link

Galspanic said...

wtf?

Mr. Pony said...

idk!