Puño Recommends: José Antonio Suárez Londoño

Get inspired by the refined work of this influential Colombian cartoonist

José Antonio Suárez Londoño is, until someone proves otherwise, the best artist in Colombia. The funny thing is that Suárez Londoño apparently draws without characters and without history.

I say "apparently" because that is his story. He spends his life drawing anything: all the plants in Doña Gloria's garden, something he found in an old photograph, some mathematical game applied to drawing, endless variations of the same object... or whatever.

And he, the author, is his own character, the narrator through which he shows us his vision of the world, a vision that does not need any fuss or flash to attract us, because once we’ve looked we are already condemned.

Condemned not to leave the exhibition or close the book, or at least not until we have carefully studied each of his drawings, his scribbles, each line or point that he has drawn on the paper, lest we lose one inch of his refreshing way of understanding the world.

Suárez Londoño is often imitated, in Colombia and abroad, and that's something totally understandable: from the moment you look at his work, you’re assaulted by the terrible and inevitable desire to draw, to dance like him.

Learn more about his work here.

Article written by Puño (@puno), an illustrator and Domestika teacher who in his courses, Drawing and Creativity for Big Little Artists, Drawing for Beginners Level -1, From Beginner to Superillustrator and Original Illustration by Your Hand and Tablet, teaches you how to unlock your creativity and turn drawing into your favorite form of self expression.

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