Mark summers

Recent personal project

Composers Caricatures.

Edgar Allan Poe You've probably seen the wonderful portraits of famous authors at your local Barnes & Noble. Ever wonder who made them and how? Behance spoke with the man behind the pictures, scratchboard artist Mark Summers: Can you describe your process in creating this project? I work in scratchboard so, all of these portraits started off as a square of black. I use an X-acto knife to scratch the white lines into the black, giving it an engraved look. There have been questions sent to me…

Can you believe the illustration above was created using a sharp knife? Neither could I. Scratchboard or scraperboard is a technique where drawings are created using sharp knives and tools for etch…

Edgar Allan Poe You've probably seen the wonderful portraits of famous authors at your local Barnes & Noble. Ever wonder who made them and how? Behance spoke with the man behind the pictures, scratchboard artist Mark Summers: Can you describe your process in creating this project? I work in scratchboard so, all of these portraits started off as a square of black. I use an X-acto knife to scratch the white lines into the black, giving it an engraved look. There have been questions sent to me…

Some animal pieces from my archive... hope all of you enjoy the project.

Canadian artist Mark Summers is a master of the scratchboard technique. His client list includes Time, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, The National…

Lincoln Sketchbook.

Composers Caricatures.

Selected illustrations from the past