Jessie Armand's black and white doodle art was THE Sharpie art style in 2011-12. Here's a cool time lapse of him doing an office wall.
My first attempt at a marker mural on paper, was in 2002, in a tiny room I lived in Garden Grove. It completely sucked. But it got me started making huge collages, and trying to find a cool way to blend colors with Sharpies. "Real artists" know that Sharpies dry quick, and you can't blend colors. I didn't bother asking any real artists. In late 2005, while actually living in an indie art gallery, I discovered my Sharpie Scribble Style. I've been evolving and pushing it for the 16+ years since.
As crazy as it sounds, I never bothered to google "Sharpie art" until 2012, after I had been drawing kid's names in #sharpiescribblestyle, and doing drawings for my niece and nephew. That was also about the time I found three skateboard decks by our dumpster, and did "Grey Trash" alien drawings, then mounted them on the decks.
When I did finally look up Sharpie art, this video, and a couple others of Jessie's work, are what I found. His style blew my mind. I started doing some black and white doodle drawings now and then to try and mimic his style, which I never came close to doing. My Sharpie doodles are pretty cool looking now, but not near as cool as Jessie's work from a decade ago. Check out this Lamborghini he did. Here's Jessie's website today. Wow.
Meanwhile, I kept drawing, and in late 2015, started drawing people, and trying to sell my drawings, since I couldn't make any money or find a "real" job. I'm still broke, but I've sold about 100 originals since. Here's one of my favorites...
The late, great, Stevie Ray Vaughn. #sharpiescribblestyle.
