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Art by : Mark Clark II

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exercising his talent. He has an online
store featuring some of his more prominent paintings made available for purchase at soceity6 website (society6.com/
markclarkii) as well as a Youtube channel
(www.youtube.com/marksbr
ush) with
videos displaying his process
for paintings.

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Narration: Darcell Carraway

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in Newark

traditional training in visual arts.
This training was encouraged as
a child by his grandmother, who
was also an artist, and has lent
his artistic abilities to a children’s
book as well as set designs for
an off Broadway play. Clark also
spent his high school years doing

various art projects for the Newark
Museum such as providing artwork
for their Science Discovery Garden.
Graduating New Brunswick’s Rutgers
University in 2007 with a B.A. in
rated what
Psychology, Clark has incorpo
and has aphe has learned in Psychology
t, to create
plied this knowledge to his ar
r illustraunique and realistic characte
concepts and
tions when doing character
portraits.
rk ’s favorAn illustrator at heart, Mr. Cla
loves to work
ite medium is pencil and he
he is startin black and white. However,
l painting.
ing to find his stride in digita

ng,
To help his drawing and writi
d
he has joined a few writing an
rk
illustrating clubs where his wo
can be critiqued by his peers,
of
thus aiding in the perfection
e
his craft. Among many of th
other stories he is illustrating
ct is
and writing, his latest proje
vel
a fantasy western graphic no