Portfolio

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A compelling showcase spanning seven transformative years.

During an impressive period2005 through 2012Mark Schultz turned his attention to producing a body of personal works and private commissions. The results, collected in the five Various Drawings volumes, focused on subjects about which Schultz feels most passionate. Among them are characters and tableaux pulled from mythology, science-fantasy and pulp adventure, featuring steely warriors and femme fataleshis popular pulpette women included. Schultz's Xenozoic world is profusely explored through a series of dynamic compositions with his protagonists, Jack and Hannah, placed in a variety of impossibly dangerous situations. In addition to his self-generated pieces, there are many examples of Schultz's commercial works done for comics, film and books, as well as renderings of newly discovered dinosaurs and more.

Portfolio compiles the drawings found in the original five Various DrawingsFound within are nearly 450 fully rendered drawings executed in brush-and-ink, carbon or graphite pencil. In addition, Schultz shows his process with a wealth of preliminary sketches done for a range of projects, including his Storms at Sea illustrated novella. Add to this rare sketchbook materialand Schultzs increasing exploration of color-tinted imagery, and you have one fascinating and diverse portfolio!

Author Bio

Since entering the world of cartooning in the mid-1980s with the science-fiction adventure series Xenozoic Tales, Mark Schultz has slowly but consistently produced a very diversified body of work. He has produced illustrations for Robert E. Howards Conan stories, scripted four years of Superman, composed a science guide to Genetics and DNA, created the Stormforce 10 adventure SubHuman with paleontologist Michael J. Ryan, and written the novella Storms at Sea, which he also illustrated. Currently he scripts the comic strip Prince Valiant, and in free moments continues to work on a sequel to Storms at Sea. Flesk has been his publisher since 2005, and continues to regularly release collections of his sketches, commissions and personal works.