Meet Wes Douglas!  Workshop 18: Urban Uglies: How to Make Beautiful Sketches Out of Those Areas Most People Overlook

Wes Douglas is an award-winning art director, illustrator and co-founder of the Elmhurst-based innovation agency Maddock Douglas, Inc. In addition to his creative role at Maddock Douglas, Wes also developed “Speaker Sketches” (his unique creative meeting notes which blend hand-written words and sketched pictures), concept visualizations, and package designs. He is also the primary book illustrator for the Amazon best-seller Free The Idea Monkey (to focus on what matters most) by Mike Maddock. Wes has been a co-admin for the Chicago chapter of Urban Sketchers since 2013.

Wes loves to share what he has learned about sketching and has a lot of fun in the process. In the summer of 2017, as part of his public relations duties, Wes appeared on WGN Morning News and WGN Radio AM 720 “Outside the Loop” programs to share his passion of urban sketching with Chicago listeners and to promote upcoming Sketch Seminars and the 8th International Urban Sketchers Symposium.

Wes has also lead demonstrations on urban sketching people for the DuPage Art League in Wheaton, a demonstration on marker illustration at the American Academy of Art, and will soon be leading a demonstration on urban sketching people at the Kishwaukee Valley Art League in Sycamore.