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  • awwww ur not Asian

  • I need to show my husband this; mostly because he loves David Sylvian and maybe I could persuade him to try and draw more if he saw your picture XD

  • Aww, you have such a beautiful family! And you are one of my most inspirational artists. Your work is terrific and very explanatory; thank you, and keep the awesome videos coming, please! I can't wait to get your How To book (:

  • awwww "miki" from your wife thats cute :3

  • happy birthday

  • You are a true inspiration, I will always look up to you.

    -True Bromance right here-

  • 0:50 "far from perfect"...

    are you kidding me? This is brilliant! What would I do to be able to draw like this...

  • You should make drawings of your children and post them here!

  • Evil Dead? XD

  • what a lucky guy

  • where haven't you been at mark crilley???

  • You know what really motivates an artist looking bac at your old sketch books and noticing the progress you 've made .

  • thanks to you i have started drawing again :) the last time I had drawn something was in the 6th grade and right now i'm in the 10th grade! :O thats a long time without drawing and i could be a lot better if i hadn't stopped drawing. My skills are a little rusty but im getting better and soon i will try to publish a manga :D thanks for the motivation!

  • HA! I remember reading this in Elementary, O Gosh I remember fighting for it in the library because other kids wanted to read it...You even came to my school and I got to eat pizza with you because I won a Picture contest haha..I look back on that picture I made, Man my Drawing has changed! haha

  • Marc, I am not that good at drawing (I am on;y good at cartoons), but I really wanna be a writer and an ilustrator of probably comic books. Can you please response:

    Is it possible to become a comic artist if I am not an amazing drawing?

  • You are awesome and take care of your family

  • I am so glad that I'm also in my freshman year and I'm as good as you were back then... writing comics is also my dream, and I've already written a few (completed, but suckish), so thank you for encouraging me so much!

    and by the way, (even though I guess you won't answer this stupid comment) when did you actually start drawing? I've been seriously drawing for four years now... (and am currently 14)

  • "And as you can see, far from perfect,"

    hmmm... he was really good even back then. It must have taken forever in that school to finally get that great.

    "But that's where I was my freshman year of high school."

    :O

  • I like to think I'm good and have a talent but am finding it difficult to get motivation and seeing how you studied other artists is really bringing me into it :) ps. You rock

  • Please respond: I am in middle school, I like to draw, but I don't think my drawings are good enough. What should I do???

  • @dayrts57 why do you think your drawings ain't good enough? i used to think that when I was in elementary school, and my friend would say your drawings are good, now even my enemies turn to look at my drawings, so you keep your head up high, and watch videos like Mark Crilley's, if you think your drawings ain't good enough, you'll be surprised how many people will stop by your locker and say "What are drawing today?", i think the people who think their own art isn't good, sees it is...

  • Did you do drawing lessons when you were younger.

  • Are these onions okay? Obviously. LOL!

  • holyshit im a freshman in highschool and that drawing would be godly here!

  • Dude that was your drawing skill in high school, man I'm a junior in high school and I'm no where near that good and I really want to be an artist or have a job that uses art. Do you have any ideas on how I can I can get better at drawing?

  • Hey Mark! So i know this might be a large request, but i was wondering if you would ever possibly upload both your travel diary through India and the sketchbook you filled while in Taiwan to deviantart. While you flipped through your work i fell in love with your art! I've purched many of your books such as Miki Falls, Brody's Ghost, and the version which you illustrated of the Enormous Egg and love your stuff! :) Much love. xx

  • "i had no idea what i was doing.." haha xD

  • The 4 M's! Mark, Miki, Matthew and Mio :)

  • What a cute family.

  • I don't know about any small company.I only know about "Dark horse""Viz media""Harperbooks"

    "tokoyo pop"!!!!They're all a big company!!!

  • Awwwwwwwwwww,how cute family you have.!!!!^_^

  • Amazing.

  • i read every single akiko book,EVEN the books wen she grew up

  • Have to say - I just LOVE that India stuff!

  • kanji ftw! and lol WORM! :D

  • It took years of drawing to get to the point that I am right now.... I started drawing at the age of two.... I started drawing animie at the age of six.... I'm twelve now and I can draw alot similar to the way mark crilley does.... Though I use a different style and I'm not as good

  • wow....that all stuff is so cool...love it.....i have started painting fews days back....i hope i will become as good as u r...but i ll take a long tym :-(

  • how do i get published. TRAVEL ALL OVER JAPAN READ 100 UNPUBLISHED BOOKS .DRAW 10000000000 PICTURES AND STUDY ABOUT ALL THE GREAT MASTERS.

  • Have you been to NY markcilley ?

  • Have you been to NY markcilley

  • Hey there, I have a question .how can i get my working-in-progress-Manga published? I live in Athens, Greece and i really want to get the attention of international publishers. If someone could help me out that would be great :)

    Thank you

  • You are preaty cool. I'm going to subscibe right now.

  • AAMAAZING!!!!!!!!!!!1

    

  • You sir are are good illustrator! I liked that you showed some of your work, the unpublished things looked publish worthy that's for sure! I thought the alphabet was cute.

  • the india journal is AMAZING! JEALOUS!!!!!!!

  • If you think thats not pretty good in high school i can tell you that the best i draw i high school was a stickman ;)

  • when you send off your art to be published, do you send your sketches or do you digitalize it? you're work is truely amazing, i've started writing a manga and hopefully should finish it next year

  • @AlieMaie You make physical printed copies usually, nowadays though I'm sure more people are sending them digitally.

  • ur sallery must be dominating

  • i love hearing him say that it blew his mind that he had 5,000 subscribers after a year and now he has nearly 400,000.

  • Wow seeing all that O.O I still have a long way to go

  • Hi,My friend and I had an idea for a story and we thought it might be fun to try and publish it in a book.We aren't done with typing the story yet but we do know where its going.Before we get done typing it out I wanted to know just what it cost to get a story published.We're only fourteen so we aren't exactly sure what we can afford on things.If we can't do that though we'll probably just upload it on quizilla but still we wanted to know what all it took to publish a book.

  • i had a load of mark crilley books but because they are not coloured inside, my brother coloured them in and ruined them!

  • that india trip book is nuts it look sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooo good

  • Awesome. I also want to be able to get a manga of my own published someday. I will take your advice and start with smaller companies, but there's really only one story that I have in mind. Guess it would be a nice change of pace to think of some others though; just save my main one for the bigger deal. I'm hoping to make something everyone can enjoy. If you could do it, then I can do it too.

  • You are my idol Mark. I hope one day I can create a manga which will be published.

  • I found a bunch of your books in my library. Read them all. :3 I must say, you're a much better artist than you are an author.

  • Haha cool video man... I just started watching videos of drawing... something I have always wanted to do, and yours are just awesome. You are a great teacher, and a cool guy it seems like... Thanks again!

  • When he says create a story from start to finish does he mean that the story has to end on the last page? Like a one-shot manga?

  • oh i just remembered! i think you visited my school when i was younger and i got into the whole akiko series! i read every one of then 3 times! they were really good!

  • i live in detroit! i plan on going to the institute of arts! hopefully i will grow up to be just as taleted as you the ;)

  • you should draw worse so my drawings look better

  • omg your family is soo cute :D

  • 1 and 2

  • Cooooooooooooool I love bradys ghost

  • Yesterday, I went to the bookfair at our school, and I saw your book "Brady's Ghost"

    I bought it. I love it, and am now trying to get my hands on the next one :D

  • @CamyWantzACookie bradys gohst wtf?

  • @penguinpiebizzle *brody's 

  • @CamyWantzACookie lol tho BRAdy's gohst lolz

  • aww ur daughter is so cutte

  • who is disliking these videos holy crap 

  • Taiwan!! omg you just got 1000times cooler! :D

  • this is fascinating :0

  • when/ n why u wanted to be an artist n become a manga artist :)

    thumbs up so he can read this

  • o oooh.... you really do look like what i imagined (a good thing) xD cooool

  • aww at 7: 52 I couldn't keep watching. its weird. the video just stopped and it wasnt buffering or anything like that it just stopped. oh well. i really like this video as well as all you message to my subscriber videos. i like all your videos, really. you're such a great artist!

  • wow your very talented i hope someday i will be as great as you in drawing :P

  • your Asian sketch book is amazing--I hope you are able to publish it some day.

  • PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please PLEASE please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please.........

    Can you pretty please make it possible for overseas orders of original drawings of miki or anra? Or any of your awesome characters?

    Please please please please please please please please p

  • Wow ! When I first saw ur videos I thought u were just talented. Now I realize u r talented and have worked so hard at what u love.

  • AWHHHHH YOU NAMED MIKI AFTER YOUR WIFE IS THE STORY BASED ON YOU??

  • okay dude now you're officially my idol and well be forever after this video :):) now i seriously going to do my best to be good at drawing and i hope i be successful like you one day ^^ ohoh i almost forgot you got cute children so cute seriously and you're wife is soo beautiful hope you all the best ^^

  • Can I ask how did you get thee lettering done? I only have paper and pens and the like, no computer to aid me. any tips on pro lettering? Amazing work btw. Simply outstanding.

  • i love the travel diary ... should so be published

    

  • "To this level of professionalism" He says....That's a looong time.... T_T

  • Why does that face look familiar...Oh yeah It looks like my greatest art teacher in our house!His name was Mark Crilley! He shows me to draw more than the masters!

  • my dad is a artist so i have artist blood :D

  • Omg you made akiko! I remember that book from when I was a little kid! That's one of the first times attempted to draw I tried to draw that ball looking thing xD

  • wow :O u must kno a lot of languages.... u've been to taiwon, india, japan. ur so lucky ><

  • You said its good to look at the masters. I think you are right, so im looking at your videos :)

  • just an amazing artist mark, keep up ur great work

  • Duuuuuudeeee he looks like my history teacher! Haha

  • I really need to know this, do u use the computer to draw the manga or just with pencil!? Idk which one is better.

  • You should be a mangaka XD

  • You are AMAZING Mark! Your long and hard journey to getting published has inspired me to work very hard to get published as well! I have a strong passion for drawing and will forever draw! I will give my best to complete my stories -- and at a professional level! Thank you so much Mark! For inspiring me and for taking the time to make drawing tutorials so that I may improve and reach the level of a professional such as yourself!!!! Once again, thank you so much! ^^

  • Hey mark I just wanted to thank you 3 years ago I saw your how to draw an eye video and now at the age of 15 i am being asked to illustrate a kids book. without me seeing that video and trying to draw and continuing to draw I would not be where I am. Thank you so much! if anyone wants to see my stuff check out my real channel LonaNightshine!

  • if we should study the masters then il need to ask u some qwestions lol

  • Philosophy manga here in Russia. So thank you:)))))

  • U got such nice family!!:))))) And It really can help me, because it can help publish my phi

  • You are so nice a person,you have not only earned your success but in my opinion very,deserving.And your family is beautiful.I was born with a desire to draw,and paint{still there};but was discouraged by family,and fate had other plans.Not to get into my life story,I am now 68yrs. a mother,grandmother and great grandmother/widow with no

    one to tell me to stop wasting time.Again w/pens and paints trying.I really enjoy your videos on U Tube.Thank You so very much,love your art.Sincerely; SuzeRuth

  • @ColoredRainU2me wish i had a granmother like you, you seem very nice :)

  • @ColoredRainU2me That was really sweet of you.

  • @ColoredRainU2me bless you, that made me all teary eyed. Very beautiful

  • Such a cute family!

  • me and my sister love your work can you plz make a how to draw vid on mythical animals i know you made one but can you base this one off a mouse plz

  • I think this is one of my favorite videos you've made. Your art is fantastic, and it's greating to see some of the work you did leading up to today. It's no wonder your mangas have such great drawings in them.

  • dont scare me like that by saying ur first publish was at around ur 30's D; my dream was to become a manga artist at atleast 20/21 ;(

  • You inspire me sir. You trully do. I want to honestly thank YOU sir for being the man that you are. You've got a beautiful M-named family ^.^

  • The picture at 2:50 wow!!

  • aww <3 so adorable, the pics of you and your kids :)

  • Im gonna kill you and steal your hands

  • @NicGar30 His brain is the key to his skill.

  • In one year I learnt 7 programming languages and made tons of popular or famous online games. In 4 years of practice my drawing is still not particularly good. I guess learning to draw very well is one of the hardest things to do...I really just want to make one short manga book that I can keep to myself and be proud of...you know?

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  • i do betterthan that .

  • @TheMavrel u keep thinking that, sweetie. ^_^

  • This video is more than helpful acually. kind of inspiring! thanks a billion for posting this video. :)

  • Jhonen Vasquez just sent crap in to Slave Labor Graphics XD Not even the 1st issue of JTHM, high school stuff.

  • it's interresting to see all the things you did before you got published.

    May I ask how old you were when you got published? (if it's not to personal)

    I really enjoyed this vid!

  • could you please do a tutorial how to draw furniture or bottles?? PLEASE!!!

  • awesome!! I also love your old drawings!! and you say far from perfect??

  • Simply awesome

  • Make vids of your road trip!, better than nothing:D

  • You should try to draw your daughter !

  • publish the boookkkkskskskskss

  • your in your fortys? you sound waaaaayy younger!!!

  • Dood.

    Mark, Miki, Matthew, Mio. All M's * A *

  • @Alumniiii Well, you do get a nice warm feeling off of them, don't you?

    Especially Mark's soft voice, mmmmmm......

  • @Alumniiii Me X_X

  • I thought you had a beard haha xD

  • Wow. your really the maker of Akiko?

    

  • If you enjoy doing it, then in my opinion, your an artist. Also, its not so much "society" saying your an artist, rather being accepted because of your art. A pay check doesn't hurt either.

  • 1:52

    ...study the masters = watch,listen & study markcrilley

  • 0:47 "and as you can see...you know..far from perfect.. O_O enough with the jokes, i would give my left hand to draw like that.

  • i read chapter book and i already read yours xD

  • Only 5000? Wow, you should have like 5,000,000..

  • you are cute!=D

  • Your family is SO cute! Your an amazing artists and I wish you the best in the future!

  • Hey Mark (if your still reading comments on this vid) but I'm a young "manga artist" and I have a idea for my own work, but I was wandering how do you you develop your work, how do you improve what you have and make it professional? any advice would be appreciated.

  • lol i always pictured you with a scruffy beard

  • 10 ppl are jealous of Mark's talent and hard work!

  • 15 years old and only 2 years of experience and you've made me so much better. I cannot thank you enough. By the time I'm old enough to be a real artist, thanks to you, I can be an amazing artist. Thank you Mark Crilley.

  • @borontheborelord There's no certain age to be a 'real' artist, because anyone who does art and stuff is a real artist. :)

  • @kyuubinaruto199 Rather, when society says I'm a real artist.

  • @borontheborelord You don't need society to say you're a real artist.

  • @kyuubinaruto199 I wish it worked that way but it doesn't. A talented minor won't get as much recognition as a talented adult.

  • @borontheborelord It does wrok that way. You don't need all of society to tell you you're a real artist.

  • I'd pay good money to get my grubby little hands on that travel diary:D

  • You're a wonderful artist and i hope to be like you one day :) also you have beautiful family

  • Oh my gosh. I read Akiko when I was little. :O

  • omg we finally saw his face xD lol

  • 7.29 ''Certainty I would never have the chance to publish Miki Falls if i haven't gone through all these Shi- Other stuff!! ''

  • Is it possible to Miki Falls turn into anime? :)

  • must have been nice going to speciality school at such a young age, my parent discouraged any sort of stuff like that, until it was way too late.

  • You are an inspiration. It's hard for me to believe that such a talented and successful artist like yourself would take time for "us" youtube followers. Thank you for all your hard work and allowing us a glimpse into the world of illustration.

  • All of the drawings of your past are so nice and they have led you to where you are know, so keep it up, and you got a really nice family, take care ;) .

  • Seems to me the road to getting published is 25% raw talent, 25% dedication and 50% pure luck. There are an incredible amount of amazingly talented artists out there who never get published but then, when I read the newspaper comics, I see "Close to Home" and the like and can't help but ask "why them?!?"

  • awww i thinks thats sweet that you named you main character after your wife :3

  • ima freshman and i dont draw like tha D: im kinda doubting myself now..................but i gess thaat mean i gotta try harder :D

  • SUCH cute children!! Absolutely gorgeous :) And your work is simply amazing, thank you for all the tutorials!

  • can i see your face please

  • SLOW DOWN!!

  • I especially like the picture of that one woman with the dress that extends way too long with so many little patterns and designs with GREAT detail to colors.. it's just very visually appealing to me. Also, you're at 350 000 subscribers soo.. yeah :D

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  • simply amazing. That is all.

  • 10 dislikes, Really? This guy is an amazing artist, and he is published! Dont hate.

  • @USMCGolf28 They are just jealous that Mark is a god in the drawing world :P

  • your daughter is super cute!!!

  • is your wife japanese?

    Im not racist, just wondering

  • @erinsun98 Dude, if it's an honest question nobody is going to think you are being racist. :) It's like asking someone if they're gay; if you really want to know then ask, if you're going to be an asshat and tease them about it then you're being an asshat.

  • my jaw was dropped the whole video.Seriously some incredible stuff. Mark you're a legend!

  • I love the various styles you have used. The variety of the characters and drawings is just great. Have enjoyed your videos and learned from your tutelage. Great stuff Mark.