Zachary |
About the ArtistI am a kid who was born in the suburbs and grew up in public school. I am a dime a dozen person who is not special in the slightest. However, I think I have a way of looking at the world that is different from others, I love fantasy and science fiction and I tend to look at the world through that as a lens with my head in the clouds. At the end of the day I am someone who knows no one and who nobody knows.
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Reflections on Urban SketchingThis class was fun and that surprised me because I’m not very good with a pencil and pen, but actually making the sketches was enjoyable honestly I’ll probably keep sketching after I’m done but I probably won’t
show anyone because the only thing about this class I didn’t enjoy was sharing the sketch because it makes me feel self conscious. Honestly I think this class developed my skill tremendously mainly because I didn't have any at the beginning, my ability to recreate my perspective on the page and I’m honestly pretty proud of that. |
Sketching on Location |
Bitten
This piece I find strange in a very nice way, this is a sketch of a school building that was semi-demolished and then just left to rot. The way a chunk of it was taken out reminded me of a bite mark and I like that it made me think about the rust belt as a whole simply bitten out of by companies and then left to figure itself out and that was terrible in a way I could feel in this school. This is an urban sketch this is on my way to work and i just pulled over and drew it.
Mart, Wal
This is a Wal-Mart, obviously but something about how it stretched all the way down to ends of my perspective disturbed me. I have a slight case of Megloaphobia, the fear of large objects, and something about this temple to consumerism so immense in it’s scale didn’t frighten me but it did bother me in some way I wanted to capture how imposed upon I felt.
Abandoned
This is an abandoned, broken down house. It seemed to be broken in a compelling way. It begged the question: who lived here? Why'd they leave? what was it like when it was new and lived in and loved? I think the house is lonely and that made me wonder about what happens when we are forgotten too, I ask these questions rhetorically not because i know the answer but because no answer exists, This is a urban sketch through and through i just pulled my car over and did it right then and there when I saw it.
Troll
This is a scene from my window as an avid lover of the fantastic I wonder about adding things that weren’t there to my sketch. I used a pen for the objects which were there and are real and ink brush for the fantastic elements. I decided on a troll purely because of my love of them, big, ugly, terrible things that beyond their ghastly appearance have a sadness to them in my mind they are always hungry and that hunger in a very
primal way pushes them to be what they are. This is more of a studio sketch sue to the fact that this is my backyard and I could sit at a desk and really look at my subject rather then being in my car.
primal way pushes them to be what they are. This is more of a studio sketch sue to the fact that this is my backyard and I could sit at a desk and really look at my subject rather then being in my car.
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