My name is Patrick Wallace. I come from all over the state of Michigan, an nowhere else. I have only here, but never in the same place for more than five years. I took an interest in art because it gave me something to do while I was incarcerated in my room for an entire year. Around seventh grade, I was grounded to my room for an abnormally long amount of time because of small transgressions - homework and my disposition to not doing it mostly. I had taken art classes in previous years, and even the last two years, but none that ever taught me how to make art in a professional way. There really isn't anything special about my art. It's just paper and pencil drawings for the most part. A few times, I might experiment with sculpting or painting, but I will always come back to paper and pencil drawings. It's easy to use, easy to clean up, easy to prepare for, etc. I have also found many different ways to experiment with it as well, from drawing people to drawing animals, making scenes, designs, and redrawing electronic concept art. My specific style, though, always makes my drawings look like some kind of cartoon. My teacher has told me that I have a highly identifiable, specific style. I don't know whether to accept that as a compliment or what. I can think of two, maybe three, possibly four pieces of art that would support this claim. A few that come to mind are Dauntless, The Modern Bureau, Victory Lies In Preparation. These pieces are what I usually think of when I try to describe my art style. I can't really recreate any human shape or form without it turning into some bad kind of animation. A lot of the themes that appear in my works are either fantastic or some amalgam of of patterns and colors. One such piece with this amalgam is Pipe Dreams, with a whole slue of patterns and colors being seen, and my fantasy pieces are fairly easy to spot. One of the artists that I am inspired by are Mark Zug, the illustrator for Angie Sage's Septimus Heap and Todhunter Moon series. Zug has a very specific style that, when one sees many of his drawings, becomes very identifiable. Sometimes, in a few of his book illustrations, I find he has tagged his initials in the image as a part of the image's background. And most of his drawings seem as if they were drawing in paper and pencil, or something extremely similar. To be honest, Mark Zug could very well be the reason why I like to draw fantasy pieces using paper and pencil, besides the fact that I like fantastic creatures and I love using paper and pencil.
In this site, I will be expressing my ideas of creativity through various mediums of art, like painting, clay, block prints, sculptures, and maybe just drawings. In my eyes, being creative and having an active imagination are more important than having the ability to memorize facts and dates, or how to rework an equation.