Alex Pardee

Alex Pardee innate(p) and raised in Antioch, California, Alex Pardee is an up and coming machinationist who is breaking waste many figurative aesthetic barriers. With a style m senileed from age of horror movies, derisory books, old school gangster rap, and severe stamp and anxiety, Alexs style is simultaneously horrific and fascinating. Alexs struggle inwardly himself had a positive bring outcome that he intends to share with anyone with an open mind, eyes, and ears. At the age of 14, Alex was diagnosed with anxiety and depression.He was hospitalized for months, growing restless as the doctors tried to run across the right combination of pills to make him back to normal. However, pills and therapy werent the treatment Alex needed. To honor himself busy during his days at the hospital, he drew to pass the time. His drawings became more(prenominal) elaborate and twisted as the number of days he worn-out(a) behind white doors built up. When he was released, there was no pl ay back. As a child, Alex enjoyed newspaper comics. He and his sister would trace the comics and sum up their own captions.Alex Pardee has always been drawn (no pun intended) to different art, whether it be old movies like The Dark Crystal and Star Wars, graffiti, skateboard art, or the likes of strawberry Shortcake. The first twisted comic that captured his affair was The Maxx, created by Sam Keith. in advance he found The Maxx, he never took a liking to comic books, thinking they were all superhero nonsense. This dark, untidy comic about the tragic happenings of a teenage girl changed his view of the comic industry as a whole and inspired his own twisted, powerful, unkempt style.As far as education, Alex has no art degrees of any sort under his belt. When he was a kid, he wanted to be Bobo Fett. But, during high school, his dream was actually to attend submit school, merely that dream remained dormant due to his extremely introverted personality. The supposition of social i nteractions during projects prevented him from pursuing that career. He chose art because he knew he could soft do that from the comfort and safety of his own home. What inspires you? is the most common and hate question that Alex is asked.The possibilities of that answer are always so complex and concentrated to materialize that he often gives simple answers that leave inquirers unsatisfied. To simplify the get along novel-length answer, at two it was Star Wars. At four it was Disneyland. At sextuplet it was my parents. At nine it was Garbage Pail Kids. At 14 it was Robocop. At 15 it was The Maxx. At 16 it was Street Fighter. At 17 it was graffiti. At 20 it was the discovery of zines and self-publishing. At 21 it was Photoshop. At 22 it was Half-Life. At 23 it was painting. At 25 it was screen-printing.At 26 it was Aqua Teen lust Forceand Adult Swim. At 30 it was Zerofriends. At 35 it was Chloe (his girlfriend). Alex Pardee began with small drawings on scratch paper or in no tebooks. Once his skills and techniques improved, he make photocopies of his sketches and rough copies of his books and began spreading them like wildfire around his town. Copies were strewn about waiting rooms, overt restrooms, magazines, newspapers, and anywhere else he could think of putting them with the hopes that someone would recognize his endowment and efforts.This continued until 1999, when a handful of other artists encouraged him to have his books professionally printed. To pay for printing expenses, he got a job at a toy store. He had the job for nine stratums and maintained a steady love/hate relationship throughout. In the first year at his toy store occupation, Alex released his first book, My Book of Colors. After the release, he began devoting all his time, blood, sweat, and tears into his skyrocketing career. Since then, he has released the book series Bunnywith and The Secrets of Hollywood.These releases branched out into calendars, clothing, posters, plush dol ls, figurines, and multiple art exhibits. He is a member of the art groups Cardboard City and Zerofriends, which recently opened their own store in San Francisco, California. Alex has done artwork for the bands The Used, Aiden, In Flames, and Cage. His artwork for The Useds phonograph album In Love and Death depicted a signature Pardee record named Chadam, whose story was made into a Warner Bros short film. He also did excogitation and artwork for the movie Sucker Punch. Alex Pardees horrifically moving artwork has captured the interest of many around the world.His unique style has inspired that of many future artists to create equally disturbing and fantastic pieces. Not only does he have thousands of sketches, paintings, and short stories to shed light on the warped convolutions of his mind, but he has a less than perfect back story and dreadful sense of sarcasm to verify it. Thats all part of what makes him so fascinating. An intelligent and talented man, Alex Pardee is an i con of persistence and individuality for thousands upon thousands of aspiring artists and apparently lost inhabitants of Earth.