Mark Making

It may seem some fancy art term, but mark making is exactly what it sounds like. It’s literally the process of making various marks on a surface.

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A mark can be made using just about anything on any surface; from using charcoal to drawing lines on paper, to straight up charring the surface with fire.

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Even the crack in the wall you made that one time when you accidentally opened the door too forcefully is a form of mark making (that’s right, you know what you did).

 

 

Mark making can vary from dots, lines, shapes, and patterns. They can be loose and expressive, or controlled and mechanical, conveying and evoking different emotions, as well as depicting movement, texture, and space in a piece.

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There are several mark making methods; hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling (creating a pattern using dots) to name a few.

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Mark Making Artist

Peter Deligdisch, or Peter Draws, is quite an inspirational artists. On his YouTube channel, you can watch videos of him make incredibly detailed and beautiful drawings, and one series of videos is called “Overcoming Artist’s Block”, which aims to help other artists with exactly that.

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In regards to mark making, Peter shows us that you don’t need the best tools or equipment to create works of art. Case in point, drawing with a banana.

 

 

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He basically doodled with an ink-dipped banana, and when the banana gets used up, he’d dip the banana peel into the ink and splat it on the canvas, creating a different marking.

 

 

Peter has also experimented with different marking tools, such as a spatula, a stick, and even instant noodles.

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