I feel that I owe my entire career (illustrating work likeThe Green Mile by Stephen King and Blood Communion by Anne Rice) to the education I received at home from my mother, Joan Lavigueur Geyer, a great artist.
Whenever we'd bring home a project that we had to do for school, we'd clear everything off the kitchen table and get down to business. It was great to have my mother's help on a map, poster, diagram, or drawing. She always wanted us to take a very ambitious approach. My maternal grandfather was a landscape artist and architectural draftsman, and his father (my great grandfather) was a wallpaper designer. I suppose a love for drawing is passed down.
As a Studio Art student in college we had to fill sketchbooks with pencil or ink drawings, and that's when I fell in love with pen & ink. It is a medium of many riches. I have spent half a lifetime exploring the beauty of ink.
After receiving my B.A. in Studio Art from Florida State University in 1979, I spent many years as an architectural renderer. Using projective geometry (I apprenticed with a master architectural renderer/architect in Chicago in the 1980s), I showed what a building would look like once it was built. I went on to do some 800 formal architectural renderings and am a past member of The American Society of Architectural Perspectivists. I worked on the Rainbow Brite project for Hallmark Cards in my early days as an illustrator, and did product illustration and editorial work for The Chicago Tribune and Advertising Age. Upon breaking into book publishing, I started out illustrating Stephen King’s Rose Madder and The Green Mile. Now I am illustrating for middle-reader children. I have illustrated two middle-grade series: The Inquisitor’s Apprentice and its sequels and The Shakespeare Mysteries. (The Inquisitor's Apprentice was included in Kirkus Reviews List of 2011's Best Graphic Novels and Illustrated Chapter Books.) It has received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly. Book Page says: “Mark Edward Geyer’s illustrations are beautiful and add even more depth to the story.”) I am illustrating select titles in the Who Was? books for Grosset & Dunlap. Who Was Ulysses S. Grant ? published June 24, 2014 and Who Was Charles Dickens? published December 4, 2014. In 2018 I illustrated Anne Rice's new novel, Blood Communion, and Stephen King's new novel, Elevation. I also illustrated an alphabettery to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles written by Becket, Anne Rice's former assistant.
As a Studio Art student in college we had to fill sketchbooks with pencil or ink drawings, and that's when I fell in love with pen & ink. It is a medium of many riches. I have spent half a lifetime exploring the beauty of ink.
After receiving my B.A. in Studio Art from Florida State University in 1979, I spent many years as an architectural renderer. Using projective geometry (I apprenticed with a master architectural renderer/architect in Chicago in the 1980s), I showed what a building would look like once it was built. I went on to do some 800 formal architectural renderings and am a past member of The American Society of Architectural Perspectivists. I worked on the Rainbow Brite project for Hallmark Cards in my early days as an illustrator, and did product illustration and editorial work for The Chicago Tribune and Advertising Age. Upon breaking into book publishing, I started out illustrating Stephen King’s Rose Madder and The Green Mile. Now I am illustrating for middle-reader children. I have illustrated two middle-grade series: The Inquisitor’s Apprentice and its sequels and The Shakespeare Mysteries. (The Inquisitor's Apprentice was included in Kirkus Reviews List of 2011's Best Graphic Novels and Illustrated Chapter Books.) It has received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly. Book Page says: “Mark Edward Geyer’s illustrations are beautiful and add even more depth to the story.”) I am illustrating select titles in the Who Was? books for Grosset & Dunlap. Who Was Ulysses S. Grant ? published June 24, 2014 and Who Was Charles Dickens? published December 4, 2014. In 2018 I illustrated Anne Rice's new novel, Blood Communion, and Stephen King's new novel, Elevation. I also illustrated an alphabettery to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles written by Becket, Anne Rice's former assistant.
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Clients: Doubleday, Grosset & Dunlap, Scribner, Knopf, Viking Penguin, Dutton Signet, Vintage Books, Harcourt Children’s Books, Henry Holt, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Orion Publishing Group, Hard Case Crime, Conde' Nast, Time Warner, Hallmark Cards, Advertising Age, Chicago Tribune, Consumers Digest, Crain's Chicago Business, World Watch, Albin Michel (Paris), Wilhelm Heyne Verlag (Munich), Paradox Interactive (Stockholm), Pizza Hut Inc., Chick-fil-A, Turner Sports and Entertainment, Cemetery Dance Publications, Subterranean Press, AST Publishers (Moscow), PS Publishing (UK), Centipede Press, McCann Advertising...
Clients: Doubleday, Grosset & Dunlap, Scribner, Knopf, Viking Penguin, Dutton Signet, Vintage Books, Harcourt Children’s Books, Henry Holt, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Orion Publishing Group, Hard Case Crime, Conde' Nast, Time Warner, Hallmark Cards, Advertising Age, Chicago Tribune, Consumers Digest, Crain's Chicago Business, World Watch, Albin Michel (Paris), Wilhelm Heyne Verlag (Munich), Paradox Interactive (Stockholm), Pizza Hut Inc., Chick-fil-A, Turner Sports and Entertainment, Cemetery Dance Publications, Subterranean Press, AST Publishers (Moscow), PS Publishing (UK), Centipede Press, McCann Advertising...
As Adjunct Professor for Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, I teach Foundations Classes such as Drawing I and Perspective and Illustration Classes such as Life Drawing, Mastering the Pencil, and Basic Illustration.
