Drawing Your World Into Existence
My past is sketchy. No, really.
One of the fun things about diving into the world of Substack is running into other Substackers, each with their own take on the world and a newsletter to express it. How else would I have run into Nishant Jain? He’s a trained engineer who was halfway through his PhD in biomechanics when he fell under the influence of artists, and made the questionable and wonderful decision to become and artist and writer full time. He’s in all the usual places online, and also at sneakyart.substack.com.
His gig is to go into public spaces with pen in hand, and fill his notebooks with sneaky sketches of what and who he observes. This stolen excerpt from his ‘stack shows his approach: Go to an interesting public place, stare at it, and then make it his own by rendering all the angles and people into his drawing.
I have no idea how or if he makes a living at this, and that’s not the point, really. It’s more a question of how Nishant chooses to engage with the world. Answe…
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