Alex Pardee

Alex Pardee Born and raised in Antioch, California, Alex Pardee is an up and coming artist who is prison-breaking d possess many figurative artistic barriers. With a behavior molded from historic period of horror movies, diverting books, old groom gangster rap, and severe depression and anxiety, Alexs style is simultaneously horrific and fascinating. Alexs struggle within himself had a irresponsible outcome that he intends to share with anyone with an afford mind, eyes, and ears. At the age of 14, Alex was diagnosed with anxiety and depression.He was hospitalized for months, maturement rest little as the doctors tried to regulate the right combination of pills to make him hind end to normal. However, pills and therapy werent the treatment Alex needed. To keep himself diligent during his days at the hospital, he displace to pass the time. His drawings became more elaborate and depraved as the number of days he spent behind white doors built up. When he was released, th ere was no number back. As a child, Alex enjoyed newspaper comics. He and his sister would trace the comics and add their sustain captions.Alex Pardee has always been drawn (no pun intended) to opposite art, whether it be old movies like The off-key Crystal and spark advance Wars, graffiti, skateboard art, or the likes of Strawberry Shortcake. The depression twisted comic that captured his have-to doe with was The Maxx, required by Sam Keith. in the beginning he found The Maxx, he never took a liking to comic books, persuasion they were whole superhero nonsense. This dark, untidy comic more or less the tragic happenings of a teenage little girl changed his view of the comic industry as a whole and inspired his take twisted, powerful, unkempt style.As far as education, Alex has no art degrees of any sort low his belt. When he was a kid, he cherished to be Bobo Fett. But, during high school, his imagine was in truth to attend film school, but that dream remained dormant due to his extremely introvert personality. The thought of social interactions during projects prevented him from pursuing that career. He chose art because he knew he could tardily do that from the comfort and safety of his own home. What inspires you? is the most common and scornd fountainhead that Alex is asked.The possibilities of that answer are always so complex and hard to materialize that he often gives simple answers that leave inquirers unsatisfied. To alter the near novel-length answer, at two it was Star Wars. At four it was Disneyland. At sixsome it was my parents. At nine it was Garbage pailful 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 uncovering 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 ache Forceand Adult Swim. At 30 it was Zerofriends. At 35 it was Chloe (his girlfriend ). Alex Pardee began with small drawings on abrasion paper or in notebooks. erst his skills and techniques improved, he do photocopies of his sketches and rough copies of his books and began paste them like wildfire around his town. Copies were strewn about hold rooms, public restrooms, magazines, newspapers, and anywhere else he could designate of putting them with the hopes that someone would recognize his talents and efforts.This continued until 1999, when a handful of other artists encouraged him to have his books professionally printed. To contribute for printing expenses, he got a employment at a toy store. He had the job for nine grades and keep 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 serial publication Bunnywith and The Secr ets of Hollywood.These releases branched out into calendars, clothing, posters, plush dolls, figurines, and twofold art exhibits. He is a element of the art groups Cardboard City and Zerofriends, which lately opened their own store in San Francisco, California. Alex has done fine art for the bands The Used, Aiden, In Flames, and Cage. His artwork for The Useds album In Love and Death depicted a signature Pardee character named Chadam, whose story was made into a Warner Bros perfectly film. He withal did design and artwork for the movie fool Punch. Alex Pardees horrifically moving artwork has captured the interest of many around the world.His unique style has inspired that of many upcoming 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 distort convolutions of his mind, but he has a less than perfect back story and demonic sense of sarcasm to verify it. Thats all part of what makes him so fascinating. An effectual and talented man, Alex Pardee is an icon of persistence and personal identity for thousands upon thousands of aspiring artists and seemingly lost inhabitants of Earth.