Marc
McBride has illustrated over fifty book covers and countless magazines, as
well as producing artwork for advertising campaigns. He has a solid design
background in both advertising and film, and won the West Australian Film and
Television Award for Best Art Director. Marc has had work exhibited with the
New York Society of Illustrators.
Marc's influences for all his work range from tacky B-grade movies about
giant ants from outer space through to the pop artists of the sixties such as
Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and other illustrators such as H R Giger, who
created the Alien and the set design for the movie Alien.
Marc's soaring imagination has never been more evident than in the
mind-blowing fantasy jacket art he has created for the Deltora Quest series.
Marc says, ‘The medium I used for the series was acrylic paint and inks.
Using an airbrush and paint brushes I created the series in quite a
traditional way—that is, not digital. I feel that this more organic painting
works for me in the creation of people, monsters etc. If I had been asked to
create spaceships or futuristic cities perhaps I would have used a computer.
Each cover took between three and five days to complete, but, like all
illustrators, I always feel I would have liked to spend more time on each
painting. Practical reasons, such as deadlines, other jobs, eating and
sleeping, make this impossible. Nature has pattern in even the strangest of
creatures and I wanted to have this in the Deltora Quest monsters, to give
them some sense of reality.’
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Hi, Mr Mcbride is a great illustrator. He is so good he can change circles into any creature he wants. For just 15 minutes, you could see other kids drawing evolve. we really appreciated it thank you from Horatio and Bradley.
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