Murals & Illustration

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Why choose Marlin?

From digital to traditional, paint rollers to pushing pixels, your project deserves the benefits of an artist that can exploit the benefits of each.

Commissions (traditional and digital)

From logos, posters, t-shirts, book designs to large murals. Marlin is experienced with traditional pen and ink, to digital drawing, painting, and more.

Illustration (traditional & digital)

Marlin has completed many types of illustrations over the years. From Scientific drawings for books and museums, to fiction and book artwork in pen and ink, paint, and digital platforms.

Murals (indoor & outdoor)

If your looking to have a cool mural done at your business, and or home, you have found the right place. Marlin is a seasoned and experienced artist for all types of indoor and exterior murals.

About

Committed to Quality Since 2007

Marlins artwork can be seen from high in the air on large roof tops, to a simple small painted art for a book illustration. No matter what type of art is needed, Marlin can help get your design going. With years of experience, and plenty of happy customers, you know that your are getting your monies worth with Marlin.

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Speed painting of furry Cory basebodies

Speed painting of furry Cory basebodies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqRjJKBD5YE Against my conventional wisdom, I have proceeded to paint mouths and eyes before the base detail! What is the world coming to? I always paint the eyes last when I work, (completing an eye early on in a composition is a...

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cow cuts

cow cuts

I recently did this picture as a gift. It is rendered in ink and pretty large (24x36 inches). It was an interesting project to do because ALL the references that I could find had contradictory information on them. Some had cuts broken up into the dozens- in French,...

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Digitally merging sculpts ‘n’ sketches

Digitally merging sculpts ‘n’ sketches

Here is a timelapse video of me prepping my sketches and (highlight/shadow) sculpture models to become references for my digital painting. Swamps, birds, and humidity to ensue shortly... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76bSAM6dUFE

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juxtapozing anatomies

juxtapozing anatomies

Really the only way to believably render Coryphodons is to look closely at similar animals of today.  Their anatomical contemporaries/analogues give some suggestion, but compared to a hippopotamus, for example, their skeleton and (therefore) distribution of muscle...

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Modeling Coryphodons with take’n’bake clay

Modeling Coryphodons with take’n’bake clay

I thought that to get the light and anatomy best on a new paleo-reconstruction of the Eocene, I should start something I have been meaning to do since forever and ever...sculpting!  Yes, I could get by without it, but why?  Sculpting is so much fun!  I will use better...

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chinese animatronic diatryma…my color scheme?

chinese animatronic diatryma…my color scheme?

The geologist that commissioned me to do the Diatryma piece stumbled on this and is sure that a company in China used my hypothetical color scheme for their life-size animatronic Diatryma.  Someone believed me...Check it out!  They cost less than 3 grand I...

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