Gothamist: Drawing Every Person in NYC

sinisterteashop

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:28:35 -0500

He drew me once. It was enjoyable experience but when I tried to get a glimpse of the sketch he did of me he instinctually covered it up. I'm for the Polan phenom but his Muse is slightly Predatorish. He'll get thrown away when the sketch pad is finished using him not the other way round.

amiunderground

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:40:38 -0500

I draw several people a day on the train: http://amiunderground.blogspot.com i've got a few hundred so far, so i think I'll get everyone on the train in another 200 years or so, look for the end story, spring 2208!

sonyactivision

Sat, 10 May 2008 21:25:21 -0500

"Pre-pubescent girls' are just the first 8 years of his project. By the time he gets to "bitter, alcoholic old men", he'll be covered in sores, and be only able to scrawl out crude silhouettes.

babyhitler

Sat, 10 May 2008 20:45:09 -0500

I saw this guy once. He was drawing a pre-pubescent girl and I thought it was creepy. His fly was also open.

GOP

Sat, 10 May 2008 16:04:31 -0500

I hope he learns to draw before he starts.

angry_pickle

Sat, 10 May 2008 15:43:16 -0500

I love his idea. It is a great idea. But if people in NYC really look as non-descript as his drawings portray, then he might as well never leave his apartment and imagine them instead.

Whammo

Sat, 10 May 2008 14:52:17 -0500

"Jason Polan has undertaken a project that seems nearly impossible" Umm, ya think?

cucarachita

Sat, 10 May 2008 14:38:46 -0500

(What I mean is that just being a New Yorker cartoonist and submitting every week and getting 99.99 percent of your work rejected is predicated on a stupid and impossible mission, but that doesn't stop any of us from continuing. To anyone who says there's something wrong with trying something, I ask: what are you doing with your life? Just dreaming about things and thinking how dumb it would be to try them? That's 99 per cent of the world's population. The rest of us are working and being published. Like Jason.)

cucarachita

Sat, 10 May 2008 14:35:03 -0500

Jason is also a New Yorker cartoonist, did you know that?

TheKlaus

Sat, 10 May 2008 14:26:33 -0500

I dig his pics. But his M.O. is so absurd and stupid. It's not even clever; it's absurd for the sake of absurdity. Make your great pictures, but don't predicate it on a stupid and impossible mission.