The Art of Mark Jarman

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Some work from various projects here at Smart Bomb Interactive

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Props to my main man Nick Edwards for bringing the Necromancer to Life!

Check out his portfolio at: http://blindsyte.deviantart.com/

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Snoopy Flying Ace

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Go get Snoopy Flying Ace on XBox Live Arcade!

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But don't take my word for it.....

Shogun Gamer: 9 out of 10 stars

IGN: 9.0

Game Rankings: 81%

Game Trailers: 8.3

CNet: 4 out of 5 stars

Gamer Limit: 9.0

Game Spot: 8.0

Ars Technica: Buy

Destructiod: 10/10

XBox Hornet: 9/10

1 up.com: B+

Game Informer: 8.5

New Snoopy Flying Ace Website!

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Check out the new Snoopy Flying Ace website!

www.snoopyflyingace.com

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2010-02-26T12:59:00.002-07:00

one more for Stott

Red Monster has 5 eyes

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Ok Tyler here he is

Weapons, weapons, weapons

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Well it is a war game, but nobody ever dies.... really

Snoopy environments

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Snoopy Buildings

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more Snoopy

Flying Contraptions

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Airplanes are not the only things that fly in Snoopy Flying Ace..... here are some other examples of flying contraptions.

Introducing Snoopy Flying Ace

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These concepts were created for our soon to be released game Snoopy Flying Ace... Hope you like

frog number three

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another frog for Uncle Ron

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(he's an angry frog)

Uncle Ron's frog

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really pointy mountains

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what do you think of the yellow sky?

Introducing Stanley

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This is Stanley, he has a habit of sleepwalking during his lunch break....

Steve, hope ya dig. :)

Getting paid to draw elfs... Cool!

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Fun with tesselations

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These were done for a freelance assignment, an editorial piece for a magazine. I had a great time figuring out how to pull it off. In case you were wondering what the heck are tesselations it's the kind of art MC Esher did, and they have some kind of math behind them, which I largely ignored because it makes my head hurt. I think Escher liked the math part though.

T-shirts for the fam

2009-07-25T10:32:00.003-06:00

I was asked to do a few designs for our family reunion t-shirt. These were the ones rejected, but the ones I liked the best (of course.) Ok I'll admit the octopus is a bit odd, but I think he is way cool!

2009-07-25T10:16:00.007-06:00

I feel like I should apologize for being so lame in neglecting my blog. There has been sort of a perfect storm in my life as of late. Normal things like too much freelance (is that possible?) and our project at work is nearing completion, and not so normal things like Rosemary being diagnosed with cancer. But I have done a few images recently you all might enjoy...... which I shall put up momentarily. BTW Rosemary has a great blog of her own talking about what its like to endure cancer...she also has a real engaging writing style (i think.) Check it out at "My Unintentional Life". You can read her great posts and see some dorky photos of me.

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The Bible speaks of Jesus' family, this is one of his brothers, James. James has his own book in the new testament and was the first bishop of Jerusalem.

This is my first sketch I'll try to take it to a finish

prize fighter 2

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prize fighter

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sketch 23

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I created this image for a client who is always coming up with jobs that never fail to surprise me. I do enjoy them though, because it keeps me on my toes. I thought she turned out pretty good, so I decided to post the image.

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found some animal sketches I did a few years ago for a client, thought you might like em.....

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Emily wanted to share this illustration of her hamster.

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not sure where this guy came from....

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My 8 year old daughter Rachel made this really cool picture of a frog eating a bug, she wanted to share it with all of you.... enjoy!

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Here's a color sketch of the first spread of the Small Mark book, its a redo of the other one I posted a while back.

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I've begun working on "Small Mark" in earnest. I've decided to use "Mary Blair" arms and a warm nose and ears. Any thoughts?

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more snow in the forecast

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We have been stuck inside all day, too much snow!

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I did some cars for a client a few years back, not the kind of thing I normally do but I thought they were pretty cool

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Romans 6:23

No Money

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another image for Poder magazine

great comment on today's economy, no money. . . no economy, go ask your banker

angel

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Made some changes after our final critique

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This is Jenny, my most recent assignment for Sam's class.

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I did these little kids for Halloween a few years ago, its a bit early, but what the hey.

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An updated version of the angel sketch. I changed the wings, thanks for the great critique Dave, Tyler and my pals at work!

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Here is a pirate design from a few years ago

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I'm teaching a character design class at work, this is my design.

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This is a homework assignment for a character design class given by the incomparable Sam Nielson.
Check out his work at http://artsammich.blogspot.com/

The line art was done by the fabulously talented Joe Olson, check out his blog at http://joeolson.blogspot.com/

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This image depicts an ancient myth that is found in several cultures throughout the world. The myth describes the creation of the universe and tells of an eternal struggle between angels and demons. In the myth the demons and the angels are engaged in an epic contest of tug-of-war. Each side gripping the opposite end of the great cosmic snake. As the two sides struggle, pulling back and forth on the snake, primordial cosmic matter is churned up creating all that is in the universe, planets, stars, nebulae etc. These two warring sides basically act like a great cosmic butter churn, creating our physical universe from unorganized matter.

The doctrine of God creating the universe from unorganized matter was held by the earliest Christians. Unfortunately this truth was later discarded in favor of the theory of creation "ex nihilo"or creation out of nothing. This idea was incorporated into christian thinking by later church leaders because it squared better with the incorrect views of the neo-platonists, who maintained that physical matter was evil and anathema to the Divine.

I did the demon first, cause I like bat wings, they are fun to draw, plus I wanted to paint in red today. I think will do the angels next.

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Things have slowed down quite a bit lately, probably the economy. I'll be posting more frequently now, until I get busy again.

This is one in a series of portraits I'm doing for an upcoming art show.

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fish man head. . . uh yeah

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goofing around with a game idea about pre-human creatures in a prehistoric setting with mammoths, saber tooth cats, giant rhinos, cave bears. . . I don't think there has been a video game created in a world like this. Could make for cool game tho. . . I think.

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This was done in Z Brush. . . what an amazing tool!

This is my first attempt with this program. I think the results show how powerful this application is, that a rank amateur such as myself, can get these kind of results right off the bat!

I did do a bit of post edits of the lighting in Photoshop.

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I entered the "skin a scion" contest on deviant art. . . I didn't win

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more "small mark" artwork

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This little guy is the main character for my book "Small Mark."

Its a story of how God can turn our weakness, fears and frailties into courage and strength.

I've had some interest in the manuscript, but no one has asked to publish it yet.

2007-07-23T13:34:00.001-06:00

I found this really cool application for windows called object dock. It basically mimics what I've seen on the mac os, with large animated icons for applications running along the bottom of the screen. The cool thing is that you can easily change the icons for each application. Its supports the .png file format with alpha/transparency.

I made this from scratch in photoshop, no 3-d, really. I thought it turned out pretty well, kinda surprised myself.

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couldn't resist another version. . . no more I swear!

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here is the final image. I'm just too lazy to finish the weapon. If this were for a client I would, but it aint so. . .

Lately people have been asking about how long a picture took to make. For those who wish to know, this one took about seven or eight hours, start to finish.

2007-07-11T11:54:00.001-06:00

starting to noodle and mess with color, value and texture. I don't work that efficiently. I really should just stick to a well defined process. I just sort of look at the image and try different things and if it works I leave it

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a more refined gorilla sketch, I call this technique "beating a drawing into submission"

there are still a lot of problems with this drawing, but hey, its done on the computer so at least I won't erase a hole thru the paper. thanks goodness for wacom tablets!

I'll probably take this and make a cleaner line drawing and then color it in or maybe not.

a few notes, trying not to make the helmet look to much like Tim Burton's designs but its kind of hard to do since gorillas have such tall noggins, kinda weird actually. the weapon is a direct rip-off of an m-79 grenade launcher, but I'll alter it. . . what? you've got to use scrap.

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another gorilla sketch, I like this one better, he looks more like a big male silverback gorilla than the last one which was too slender, and human like. I think I'll finish this one . . .

maybe I'll post the different stages I go thru as I make this illustration, uh, maybe

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planet of the apes, maybe I'll color it in

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just bored, waiting for the repairman. . .

alien kid

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various stage
this is a character i thought up.

he is a teenage alien human hybrid created by a super secret govt letter agency. as a baby he was illegally spirited away from an unacknowledged govt facility by a compassionate civilian employee and placed in foster care in an obscure northeastern american town. now as a teenager he doesn't really fit in, but has discovered he has some unusual powers, not the least of which is raising small deceased animals from the dead, and then there are the dreams. . .

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this was done for some friends at vicious cycle software

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couple more character designs. these are drawings I had done years ago, but wanted to color in

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Been working on some character designs focusing on rendering . . .

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Just wanted to get started with this blogging thing. Noticed a bunch of very talented artists showcasing their work on blogspot, so I thought I would jump in and start posting some work.

Pictures coming soon. . . .