{"id":262,"date":"2010-01-11T21:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2014-03-17T00:33:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T07:33:41","slug":"art-heroes-mark-kistler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/art-heroes-mark-kistler\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Heroes: Mark Kistler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091230_3_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091230_3_small.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Kistler Tribute: Quest for Art\" title=\"20091230_3_small\" width=\"450\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091230_3_small.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091230_3_small-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another sketch tribute to one of my earliest art heroes: Mark Kistler, television drawing teacher!  He&#8217;s got a site over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.draw3d.com\/\">Draw3D.com<\/a>.  I still have never seen Mark on TV, but as a young boy I was given the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mark-Kistlers-Imagination-Station-Televisions\/dp\/0671500139\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1262232380&amp;sr=8-2\">Imagination Station book<\/a> and tore through its pages, learning important concepts such as foreshortening, perspective, and shading.  Just as important, Mark has a way with making everything bigger, better, more more more!  He loves to add fantastic details that make his cartoons more cartoony than just about any I have ever seen.  He taught me that &#8220;Drool is cool!&#8221;, that if a three-story castle is good, a thirty-story castle must be even better, and when in doubt, cram as many windows, doors, ladders, waterfalls, banners, propeller hats, people and pencils as possible into your drawing.  And <em>shade everything!<\/em>  The clutter may not always be tasteful, but it was the best drawing practice a kid could possibly get.  Mark was such a good teacher through his book that in sixth grade I used it to teach a drawing lesson to my class.  If you know an aspiring young cartoonist, I can&#8217;t recommend any book more than Mark&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Mark, you&#8217;re one of my art heroes!  Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another sketch tribute to one of my earliest art heroes: Mark Kistler, television drawing teacher! He&#8217;s got a site over at Draw3D.com. I still have never seen Mark on TV, but as a young boy I was given the Imagination Station book and tore through its pages, learning important concepts such as foreshortening, perspective,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,38],"tags":[184,223],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-sketch-of-the-day","tag-imagination-station","tag-mark-kistler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}