Mark Kistler

Emmy award winning PBS Artist Mark Kistler has taught millions of people around how to draw in 3-D. He has starred in the PBS children's series "The Secret City With Commander Mark" 1988, "The Draw Squad" 1995, "The Imagination Station" 2012. With over a million of his best selling How to draw books in print, and millions of visitors to his www.markkistler.com. Mark has presented his "Draw! Draw! Draw!" LIVE interactive draw-along K-12 Visual Arts performances at over 7,000 schools and Comic Cons around the world.

Many of Marks past students have Directed and Animated hit movies such as Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, Toy Story! Tangled, Frozen, etc. Marks past students created the animation company Pixar, as well as winning Oscars and Emmys for their animation work. Marks past students have also gone on to engineering and architecture, designing The Los Angeles Cathederal, Manahatten skyscrapers, components for the International Space Station, and the Mars Landers.

Mark is now teaching the new generation of comic illustrators, digital game designers, and animators how to draw via his LIVE weekly online webcasts, www.markkistlerLIVE.com, and his enormously popular YouTubeLIVE webcasts, (1,000,000 views). Mark invites comic illustrators from around the world to "beam in" LIVE to be a featured guest artists.