I'm Mark Harris.

I grew up in a home where there were certain soaps and towels in the bathroom we were not allowed to use.

I was born in San Jose, California and have two brothers - I'm the well-adjusted, middle kid. My family moved us to Florida when I was 12 where I was excited to learn people actually swim in the ocean rather than run from the cold crashing waves like they do in the Pacific.

I was in the third grade when i began to take notice that drawing came easier to me than it did to most of my classmates. I drew the usual things; cars, superheros, spaceships, football helmets and monkeys. Through the encouragement of others, as I approached graduation, (and, since there was little else I was good at) I decided to become a professional artist.

My Art education began at Ricks College/BYU-Idaho where I received my Associates degree. Tired of the snow, I moved back to Florida to receive my Bacherlors degree of Art from the much warmer Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, Florida.

During my years at Ringling, I initially planned to become a Disney Animator. I had a fairly natural knack for drawing the figure, I loved the art of animation and it seemed like a logical and reachable goal with Orlando outside my back door. However, in my second and third year I gradually changed gears thinking I'd have more control over my career as a commercial illustrator.

Over the past 10 years, I have worked in varying facets of the creative industry. I have worked in Video game development, Web design, Graphic design, Concept/Character design, 3-D Textures, Storyboards and Free-lance Illustration.

I am currently employed as an Illustrator for a Multimedia gaming company called Multimedia Games, in Austin, Texas.

I believe as an artist, I'm always looking for inspiration and those I can learn from. Though I love the technical side of digital illustration, its my hope, one day be a fulltime illustrator working from my home studio getting down and dirty with paints staying up all night to meet deadlines eating a bean burrito in my underwear.

When I'm not eating Frosted Flakes, drinking chocolate Yoo-Hoo, sleeping, drawing or workng on some form of art, Im probably watching Seinfeld, killing my grass or playing a prank on someone.