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October 11th, 2011

Figure Drawing

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Austin Figurative Gallery, Contour Drawing, Figure Drawing, Frank Santoro, Mark P Hensel —

I went and did some figure drawing last night. Austin Figurative Gallery does an event every Monday from 7 to 9pm at the 29th Street Ballroom. It’s $5 to attend.

I hadn’t done any figure drawing since I was a freshman in college but after a couple quick warmups it all felt familiar again, except for the d00d drawing with his wacom in Corel Painter. Not that I’m against it (I do most of my drawing with a wacom) but that’s definitely a tool I’ve never thought about using for figure drawing. When I was in school I would use charcoal or pastels on newsprint or butcher paper, but I didn’t want to have to go out and buy a bunch of new supplies so I used some pencils and a Prismacolor brush tip marker in my sketchbook.

Here are my best pages of sketches from this session:

Contour drawings with the Prismacolor brush tip marker. Three to five minutes per drawing.

The one on the right is more of a traditional figure drawing with a softer lead pencil, either 2B or 6B. For the one on the left, I tried to do what Frank Santoro talks about in his blogpost Color Workbook 1: define the shape of the figure with gray and then add contours on top. Three to five minutes per drawing.

Contour drawings with a 6B pencil. I balanced some levels in Photoshop so the lines are easy to see. Three to five minutes per drawing.

Contour drawing with a Prismacolor brush tip marker. Five minutes for the drawing.

I’ll be going back next week – maybe I’ll see y’all there?

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September 23rd, 2011

“Summoning” Comic from the Previous Catch Up Issue

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Catch Up, Chuch, GCPM, Jak Cardini, Mark P Hensel, Miizzzard, Summoning —

Because the new issue of Catch Up is out, I decided to add the comic that I drew for the previous issue, before I became the comics editor, to my comics page.

Click the splash page to be taken directly to the two-page full-color comic, called “Summoning”:

“Summoning” stars the Miizzzard and my fellow GCPM members Jak Cardini and Chuch.

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September 16th, 2011

Ditch the Fest Fest 2

Filed under: Events — Tags: Ditch the Fest Fest, Flyer, Lucy the Poodle, Mark P Hensel, Music, William Cardini —

Ditch the Fest Fest 2, an Austin music/art festival happening in the shadow of the Austin City Limits festival, is this upcoming Saturday. I drew a flyer for it, check it out:

It’ll be a fun time, check it out. They’ll be screenprinting t-shirts with one-color versions of my flyer at the fest.

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September 13th, 2011

“Please Save Maria Kondratiev” Art Show with Music by Katie Mullins and Zine Library

Filed under: Events,Inspiration,Print Comics — Tags: Alison Kuo, Andrew Bulger, Brooklyn Book Fest, Catch Up, Darling House, GCPM, Jak Cardini, James Yeh, Josh Burggraf, Katie Mullins, Maria Kondratiev, Mark P Hensel, Mike Miles, Rand Renfrow, Temporary Services, The Gold County Paper Mill —

This Saturday, starting at 7pm, my friend Alison Kuo is hosting an art show at her space in Brooklyn called “Please Save Maria Kondratiev” with music and a zine library. The artist is Maria Kondratiev, here’s a drawing of hers from 2008:

“We Can Use Him” sketch by Kondratiev from her blog.

The musician is Katie Mullins.

Because the show coincides with the Brooklyn Book Fest, Kuo is also organizing a zine library with chapbooks by James Yeh, illustrated by Andrew Bulger; interview and other booklets by Temporary Services; prints by Rand Renfrow; and comics by yours truly, Jak Cardini, Josh Burggraf, and Mike Miles of the Gold County Paper Mill; and others. I wanted to have a new zine but I didn’t finish it in time, so I sent a bunch of my old stuff, including the last issue of Catch Up.

Come check it out! There’ll be drinks and food, but please BYOB and bring your friends. The space, Darling House, is located at the corner of Broadway and Union – Lorimer JMZ, Broadway G, or a ten minute walk from the Lorimer L. Look for the glass door, ring top buzzer.

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September 2nd, 2011

3D Hypercastle Print

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: 3D, Anaglyph, Austin Books, Glade Hensel, Glademade, hypercastles, Mark P Hensel —

Here’s the final print from Glade and I’s show at Austin Books:

This digital print is called “3D Hypercastle” because it’s red/blue anaglyph 3D. I kept the blue stationary and shifted the red layers, so the 3D glasses that I got from Toy Joy only work if you fold them backwards.

Here’s a colored, non-3D version of the print:

Although the show is no longer up in the back room of Austin Books, you can still buy them from us or from the print rack at Austin Books:

Let me know if you want to get something. Here are the links to the rest of our prints:

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August 19th, 2011

Glade and Mark’s Hensel Hypercastle

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Austin Books, Glade Hensel, Glademade, hypercastles, Mark P Hensel —

Here’s a print that I made for Glade and I’s show at Austin Books:

This print is called “Glade and Mark’s Hensel Hypercastle” because Glade suggested I base one of our hypercastle prints on the hypercastle I drew for this page of my comic “Rocky Mountain Chomp.” I was originally going to make a two-color screenprint, but I designed the screens with overprinting (so I wouldn’t have to worry about precise registration) without realizing that the bottom blue layer would show through the yellow top layer. Rookie mistake!

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August 9th, 2011

One Color Hypercastle

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: Hypercastle, Mark P Hensel, Screenprint —

Hey y’all, here’s the digital, colored version of the one-color screenprint design that I did for Glade and I’s show at Austin Books and Comics, up in the back room all of this August:

For this print I was experimenting with getting as many different shades and textures out of a single color as I could. Unfortunately, all the small details made screenprinting difficult. About half of the prints turned out okay. My winning formula was to flood the screen first, hold the squeegee at an angle greater than sixty degrees, and put minimum steady pressure. At Austin Books you can peruse the prints, they range in color from fresh to dried blood.

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August 5th, 2011

Glade and Mark’s Hypercastles at Austin Books and Comics

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: 3D, Anaglyph, Digital Print, Glade Hensel, Glademade, Hypercastle, Mark P Hensel, Screenprint —

This past Wednesday Glade and I went to Austin Books and Comics to put up our print show.

Here’s a post-install pic:

The prints will be up and for sale there the entire month of August.

From left to right, we have:

“One-Color Hypercastle Screenprint” by Mark, $20 – This is the print I was posting about on Tuesday. It’s available in dried and fresh blood red
“Hyperhut” by Glade, $15 – This is a digital print of a piece that Glade made out of cut paper.
“Glade and Mark’s Hensel Hypercastle” by Mark, $20 – This is a digital print.
“Welcome to the Hypercastle” by Glade, $20 – This is a digital print of a gouache original.
“Rainbow Hypercastle” by Mark, $20 – This is a digital print.
“Flower Hypercastle” by Glade, $15 – This is a digital print of a gouache original.
“3D Hypercastle” by Mark, $20 – This is a digital print that’s made in red/blue anaglyph 3D. There are a pair of glasses that you can use to try it out hanging beneath the print.

As you can tell from the names, the theme of our prints is hypercastles. I’ll be posting larger pictures of each print throughout this month. If you want one and you can’t make it to Austin Books, please let me know in a comment or by any of the means on my connect page.

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	August 2nd, 2011 Screenprinting a One-Color Hypercastle Print Filed under: Artwork — Tags: Glade Hensel, Hypercastle, Mark P Hensel — Glade and I are going to put up our print show in the back room of Austin Books tomorrow, so we spent the weekend screenprinting. Here are some process shots: And here are the drying prints: Comments (2)

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