Mark Texeira

This article is about the comic book artist. For the Major League Baseball player, see Mark Teixeira.
Mark Texeira

Mark Texeira at the Big Apple Convention in Manhattan, October 2, 2010.
Born New York City
Nationality Puerto Rican
Area(s) Penciller, Artist, Inker
Pseudonym(s) TEX
Notable works
 Ghost Rider
Wolverine
Sabretooth
Vampirella

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Mark Texeira is an American comic book artist. Classically trained as a painter,[1] Texeira broke into the comics field in the early 1980s.[2]

Career

Mark Texeira was born and raised in New York City. He attended Manhattan's High School of Art and Design,[3][4] and was granted a Presidential Scholarship at the School of Visual Arts, where he attended for two years before dropping out to pursue a freelance commercial art career. During this period, Texeira took classes at the Art Students League. His oil paintings soon won mentions at the Salmagundi Club and the Society of Illustrators.

Comics titles Texeira has contributed to include Jonah Hex and its spinoff Hex (1985–1986),[5] Psi-Force (1986–1987), The Punisher War Journal (1990), Ghost Rider vol. 2 (1990–1992, 1997–1998), and vol. 5, Wolverine vol. 2 (1993), Sabretooth (1993), Spider-Man: Legacy of Evil (1996), Black Panther vol.3 (1998), Moon Knight vol. 4 (1999), Vampirella, Cyclops (2001), Hercules vol. 4 (2005) and Wolverine vol. 3 (2005).

Technique and materials

When painting, Texeira begins with a penciled layout on loose paper, and following approval of the layout, will acquire reference photos or hire models to pose for him, in order to "capture the feeling of the sketch as closely as possible." Texeira will then apply a few layers of gesso to a Masonite board, and then carefully lay the drawing out in tight pencil, noting subtleties of skin tone and sharpening the image throughout the process. He will then create the underpainting, in which he applies sepias, or a mix of browns, blacks and whites. Any final changes to the painting, such as aspects of a character's facial expression, are made during this stage. He then carefully and thinly applies acrylic paint to achieve the final colors, lightly so as to not lose the underpainting.[6]

Bibliography

DC

Image

Marvel

Other publishers

References

  1. ↑ "Guests of Honor," New York Comic-Con #4 program booklet (Reed Exhibitions, 2009), p. 12.
  2. ↑ Texeira entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999.
  3. ↑ "Mark Texeria". WizardWorld. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  4. ↑ "ADRENALIZE WITH RED SPIKE ON MARCH 7TH!" Benaroya Publishing. February 1, 2012
  5. ↑ Manning, Matthew K.; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1980s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 214. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. Transported from the Wild West of the past to a dystopic future society, Jonah Hex had to adapt to the times in this brave new world and series crafted by writer Michael Fleisher and artist Mark Texeira.
  6. ↑ Judith Salavetz and Spencer Drate. Creating Comics!, 2010, Rockport Publishers, page 156

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