Mark was born in 1976 surrounded by corn fields in the small rural town of Tuscola, Illinois. He and his family moved to Florida in the mid '80s where he soon became involved in the Tampa metal scene. Mark played drums in a few local doom and death metal bands such as Horde of Impurity and Execration.

Throughout the '90s he was drawing logos, t-shirt and flier art for those bands, yet never did much else with his talent. Drumming took up 99% of his focus at that time. Things happened and the band split in the late '90s, giving Mark more time for drawing. After about three years of drawing regularly, he started painting in 2004 with acrylics.

Since he had always been into music and is a fanatic for awesome cover art, in early 2007 he decided to begin offering his services to bands online. Progress started to snowball after some improvement and a switch to digital art in 2010. Now, after nine years Mark has gained a tremendous amount of experience and has successfully completed projects for hundreds of clients from all over the world.

Mark is still eager to improve and looks forward to many more years of perfecting his craft and creating some killer artwork!