The act of creation involves balancing many disparate impulses and inspirations. Mark Zug somehow manages to draw from both the highest potentials of human achievement, and the wildest energies of the natural… and unnatural worlds.

Mr. Zug’s works are raw studies of confidence and determination, and span many worlds of fantasy and science fiction, including early forays into Frank Herbert’s Dune and Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot.

An oddly enjoyable trait of Mark’s works are the unusual settings these characters inhabit: the backgrounds are nearly inseparable from the figures they frame. It seems almost that the subjects of Mark’s imaginations have spirits so powerful that they cannot be contained within their bodies. Their insistent will radiates out into their surroundings, molding and bending their environments. Perhaps this is a trait they share with their talented creator.