Alex is a self taught illustrator who has gained popularity on instagram with 372k followers. He depicts the human experience through the forms of obscure and surreal , somewhat genderless figures that usually have strangely coloured skin, three fingers or multiple eyes.
His use of pastel colours sets his style aside and his dot-work shading adds a grimy quality to the scenes. Through his abstracted scenes he shows and reflects on a lot of the daily activities we have in common; A fair few talk about technology and the mindless abyss or alternate reality staring into a phone screen can create. the negative mindless chatter or the fantasy of escapism we all take part in daily. I particularly like the drawing below titled “Beer” in which through the pint glass we see the true emotion of a man at the bar, total despair and helplessness submerged and surpassed with alcohol, and outside of that a broken and slumped smile, with a body that seems to be melting around them; a visual representation of feeling drunk. behind him various disturbing characters loom and fight each other, reflecting on societies habit of pub violence.
Alex does a great job of transcribing what it feels like to be human in todays age, which is such an important gift that art can give and one I aspire to follow in. He also doesn’t shy from making stupid jokes with his art which is something that brings joy and genuine happiness to his audience; Its great to see someone with such a large following stray away from confirming for the sake of audience and big brand names and just having fun with his art.
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