BIOGRAPHY
Mark Perez Ortiz (@tracesandmarks) do portraits approximately since 2001, after being captivating by a beautiful muse he promise himself to draw her as great as possible, on that time he used to paint in PowerPoint using his right hand (he’s left-handed) with a mouse, it was hard but then he show the result to his friends and they got really impress about it. In 2005 he went to the UK to study art, He ended up being capable of drawing with both hands. He also got a lot of knowledge about art in general and he managed to get a Bachelor in Animation. In 2013 he had his first exhibition in The Wynwood Arts District in Miami, the pictures were Optical illusions and abstract images. During the pandemic and mainly because he missed the habit of drawing portraits. he started to draw again but this time doing it in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet and using his left hand mainly. Anyways, This the most recent work he’s working on and I hope you like it.
CV
Education
• BA Hons Animation UCA, Maidstone, UK. (2007-2010).
• Higher National Diploma Art / Art Studies, AIB, Bournemouth, UK. (2005-2007).
• BS Computer Science CTU, Online, USA. (2022- Working on it!).
Exhibitions
• Fusion X – Art Ascension, Art Fusion Galleries, Miami Wynwood Art District, (2013).
Awards
•1st International Prize Leonardo Da Vinci – The Universal Artist. Florence, Borguese Palace, Italy(2016)
STATEMENT
I started to draw in PowerPoint at the age of 14 as a way of playing with vectors in order to create images, on that time I drew with a mouse with my right hand (I’m left handed). I started to draw buildings, then went into animation and then I started to draw portraits. In the end of 2010 I graduate as an animator in the UK, After that I managed to draw with both hands if I want to. I definitely go back to painting portraits because I like the information from a person that can transmit a portrait. In that way I went back to portraits but this time, using Adobe PhotoShop and a Wacom tablet, mainly drawing with my left hand.
