Mark's Electronic Gallery

Here you will find links to a few of the pictures I've created in various media, both electronic and traditional. The art done with traditional tools were created in pencil, pen and ink, or with acrylic paint. The electronic art was created with a variety of paint programs using either 16 or 256 colors in DOS and Windows.

As time permits, I'll be either adding newer drawings or possibly replacing some of the older images. So check back every once in a while to see what all's been added.

If you've been to my web page on earlier occasions, you might want to take a look at those pictures that sound familiar. All the traditional media images have been rescanned. Originally, the images were scanned using a video camera and a Targa video capture system. These new images were scanned using a flatbed scanner.

First on view is a set of scanned images of some of my "traditional" media. Most of these have been around awhile, but I like them just the same. The three acrylic paintings, listed on the first line, were painted in an art class from photographs from various sources. The rest of the drawings, with the exception of "Justine Bateman" which I was using a photo to go by, are just basically sketches done for my own amusement. Following each link is a description of that particular image. Image size is listed in pixels.

Be sure to close the viewing window before clicking on a new image. For some reason it doesn't resize correctly.

Traditional Media

  1.  BMW - Acrylic painting of a BMW motorcycle in motion from a magazine photo, created for an art class. Image size: 350x520

  2.  2 Jets - Acrylic painting of 2 military jets in flight from a brochure photo, created for an art class. Image size: 640x460

  3.  Desert Racer - Acrylic painting of a desert race car in action from a magazine photo, created for an art class. Image size: 640x460

  4.  Space Battle - Acrylic painting of two space ships in mortal combat. Image size: 320x227

  5.  Lost World - Pencil drawing of a guy in a strange place who just isn't paying attention. Image size: 640x380

  6.  Justine Bateman - Pencil drawing based on photo. My main reason for watching "Family Ties". Image size: 320x330

  7.  King Kong - Water color of everybody's favorite cinematic ape. Image size: 640x380

  8.  Innes - Pencil drawing of female agent Innes about to get the drop on a bad guy. Image size: 640x380

  9.  Mad Scientist - Pencil drawing of a mad scientist and crazed assistant and their victim. Image size: 800x480

  10.  Marooned! - Pen and Ink drawing of a guy watching the remains of his space craft burn up. Image size: 800x480

  11.  6 Wheelin' on Mars - Pencil drawing of an unglamorous martian rover. Image size: 640x380

  12.  Mad Scientist 2 - Pen and Ink drawing of another mad scientist checking on the progress of his creation. Image size: 800x480

  13.  Lizard Man - Pencil drawing of a guy in mortal combat with a lizard guy. Not one of my favorites. Image size: 640x380


  14.  Badguy - Pencil drawing of a badguy at the end of some futuristic car chase. Image size: 320x250

Next are my non-traditional pictures. These pictures were created completely on the computer using various paint programs. A couple I created with a drawing tablet w / stylus, but most were done using a mouse. Personally, I've found that a mouse is not a very good drawing tool, but I have to admit that I was disappointed in using the drawing tablet. I'm glad paint programs have a lot of nice tools for drawing lines and shapes in them.

Some of my electronic creations may be gone forever. The disk that they resided on now refuses to be read. Some of the images I've recovered by re-downloading them from CompuServe or AOL, but most are no longer at those locations. A few I've recovered from other disks that I've been storing graphics on.

Anyway, here they are for your amusement. Descriptions follow each link.

Electronic Media

  1.  3 Dinosaurs - Three dinosaurs going about their daily business. My very first computer picture. Image size: 640x350
  2.  Slow Poke - One of our newest passed by advanced alien technology. Image size: 640x350
  3.  Too Late - Some space explorers set up their perimeter defenses a little too late... Image size: 640x350
  4.  Godzilla - The Big G himself. Pen and Ink drawing, scanned via Targa board and colorized. Image size: 640x350
  5.  Wrecked - Space ship crashed on an amazingly Earth-like planet. CompuServe "Hall of Fame" award. Image size: 640x350
  6.  Space Chase - Space ship trying to make it past planet defense ships. Image size: 640x350
  7.  Girl's Profile - Not all that good, but one that I'd forgotten I'd ever made. Maybe it was better that way... Image size: 640x480
  8.  Beach - A day at the beach. You can almost hear the surf. Image size: 800x600
  9.  Fire Fight - A planetary defense ship continues the attack despite a hit amidships. Image size: 800x600