BIO

My work throughout the last four years has been about exploring and improving. When I first came to college, I had no direction or appreciation for art and design. Slowly, I came to appreciate, then admire, then covet the talent of some of my major inspirations. One of my biggest motivators has always been to improve my craft, and so I’ve carefully studied the artists I admire with the ultimate goal of finding my own artistic voice.

I work digitally most often, but I’ve been known to sculpt and paint, as well. I make what I do because it excites me and gives me a chance to explore concepts further than I otherwise could have. I assume that most people’s brains work like mine does, seeing ideas in abstract visions rather than defined shapes. I try to take those ideas and express them sufficiently so that anyone looking will understand (or not understand, as the case often is) the same things that I do.

Typically, I’m not trying to convince or persuade when it comes to what I do. Feel free to contrive any meaning you can from my patchwork body of work, but know that I probably didn’t put them there on purpose. What I try to express through my work is usually a good story, or at least a piece of one. As I said, I draw the things that interest me. If I can get others to be interested alongside me, all the better.

Right now I’m working on graduating from Youngstown State University with a Bachelor’s in Graphic and Interactive Design. As a part of my Honor’s Capstone, I’m also creating a book full of illustration and design. Hypergraphia is a memorial for my days at YSU, but it’s as much about getting out of college as it is about remembering it. College taught me a lot and only a little bit of it came from classes. No doubt the real world will teach me even more. Then, when I’m homeless and destitute, I’ll begin work on my second compendium.

BEST,

EVAN