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Mark David is an illustrator and former cartoonist living and working in Australia

Crazy Cars book cover

What kind of book for boys?

Here’s a book that gets
young boys reading

Cartooning book cover

Want to learn Cartooning?

This little book will
get you started

Cartoon expression machine

Cartoon Expression Machine

A fun way to see how
cartooning works

Galleries

Cartoons

Cartoons

60 cartoons plucked
from 20 years of cartooning

Illustration gallery

Regular illustration

Images created for newspapers
or just plain fun

3D illustration gallery

3D illustration gallery

From realistic racing yachts
to cartoony fish

3D illustration features

Making the Cheddar Warrior

Making the Cheddar Warrior

Explaining the main steps
in a detailed piece of 3D

How the cow illustration was made

Making the 3D cow

First start with
a real cow …

rotating swan

How difficult is it?

We keep being told 3D programs
are intutive, but I’m not so sure

Photography

Beginners’ series on Digital SLR photography

 

Beginners' guide to Digital SLR photography

Beginners’ guide to Digital SLR Photography

The basics that will make sense
of your fancy new toy

Learning from examples

Picking up where the first article finished

Understanding histograms

Making sense of this handy tool

Washed-out colours in photos

Why it happens and how to avoid it

Understanding Exposure Compensation

Why your camera sometimes gets
it wrong, and what to do about it

Megapixels

How many is enough?

Other photography stuff

 

Photo Library

Photo Sales

Looking for an Australian nature pic?
My photo library is growing

 

An unhelpful guide

Wildlife photography

An unhelpful guide

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

In pursuit of the waterskiing duck

It started off as a fun idea. It turned
into a kind of an obsession, and a blog

Nature Stuff

People need nature more than nature needs people

Nature Stuff

Indian Mynahs

These little brown birds are taking
over the best nesting spots, at
the expense of the locals

Noisy Miners

Sometimes mistaken for Indian mynahs

Starlings

Another feral pest, or not?

Australian White Ibis

Conservation takes an unexpected twist

Geese teeth

Some birds have ‘teeth’. No, really. Sort of …

Rainbow Lorikeets

Raucous and colourful, but not always welcome

Sulphur-crested Cockatoos

Beautiful birds with an awful call

Glossy Black Cockatoos

Casuarinas’ seed-eaters

 

waterbirds

Common waterbirds around Sydney

This guide identifies the usual culprits

Pacfic Black ducks

A common Aussie duck

Black Swans

Bird emblem of Western Australia

Are they crows or ravens in Sydney?

The answer’s in the neck feathers

Brush turkeys

The builders of MacMansion birds’ nests

Darters

Comfortable on land, in the air and in water

Australian Pelicans

For such a big, clumsy-looking bird on land,
they sure look graceful in the air

Fire and the Australian bush

The story of fire is a complicated one

Lizard bite

Sometimes you get more than you bargained for

Sydney critters

Some of the best critters hang out
where you least expect them

Cute stuff

Critters sure can look cute when they're little

Back from the Brink

My review of the book by Peter Andrews

Some big Australian trees

We’re chopping them down so fast
most people have never seen a big gum tree.
Here are some nice ones

A few unusual Australian trees

They might not be the biggest, but they sure look good

Will Australia's giant trees return?

Maybe not. This looks at some of the reasons why.
It makes you wonder why we’re in such a hurry
to chop them all down

 

Giant stick insect

Is this the world’s longest insect?

This critters is for real. All 42 cm (16.6 inches) of it

Common Australian orb-weaving spiders

Most of the time, in Eastern Australia, you can
that big spider in your garden down to one of these

Golden Orb Weaver spiders

Common, and harmless

Huntsman spiders

Big, hairy, scary and timid

Fear of huntsman spiders

Some things you can do about it

How many eyes do spiders have?

Quite a lot, actually

How many eyes do insects have?

The number varies

The amazing net-casting spiders

These handsome critters have a
remarkable method of catching prey

Commensal spiders

Eating the leftovers

Jumping spiders

These guys are some of the most decorative spiders

What is a spider?

No really. What makes a spider a spider?

How I catch spiders

Here’s how I catch them to take them outside

Camouflaged critters

Blending in to a scene near you

Feeding wild animals

Is it a good idea?

Feral animals

What’s the real meaning of that term?

In pursuit of the waterskiing duck

It started off as a fun idea. It turned into a kind of obsession. And a blog

Extreme close-ups

Extreme close-ups

Can you guess what I was photographing in these pictures?

UFO picture

My weird UFO pic

I didn’t even notice it until
I downloaded it to my computer

 

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