KINK feature: Zach Brunner
Wrestling (high-quality prints available in the shop)
artist: Zach Brunner
Los Angeles, California, USA
artist instagram
(images featured below will also appear in the KINK book. available in the shop now.)
Your work in five words or less?
Pop, fun, queer, horny, geeky.
What’s your personal kink?
Not super kinky, but I do love a good wrestling singlet which is why I
really needed to draw this piece.
Turn ons?
I love making art, spending quality time with friends and family, being by the ocean, watching movies, and talking about Star Wars theories.
Favorite subject?
I grew up on comics, and fantasy/sci-fi movies. Anything pop culture-oriented is what I love to draw most. Also butts.
Ideal place to display your work?
Honestly it’s so humbling and flattering to see when people hang my artwork up in their homes or get it tattooed on their bodies. I don’t even have words to describe how it feels to think that people have so deep a connection with my art that they want it to be a part of them forever. It makes me feel so grateful.
Favorite non-art pastime?
I took piano lessons for 13 years, and I miss it so much!
Most memorable project?
My epic fantasy graphic novel that I illustrated, called Plague. It took about five years to complete and it is available on Comixology.
Art crush?
That’s so hard because I follow so many fantastic artists on instagram, I don’t know if I can choose just one. Is it cheesy to say my friends? Werkzine, StoneNelson, JamesFalciano, JerelCardona and ZachGrearArt are a few good ones. They’re all fantastic artists in their own right, and knowing them has broadened my understanding of what it means to be a good artist and a good person.
Personal crayon color?
Ringwraith’s Butthole Black.
No explanation.
What is unique about your process?
I learned how to draw by using heavy line work, so I think I bring a more simplistic and graphic feel to my art than say, a painter would. I think one of my strengths is my use of color, probably from my work as a comic book colorist for the past ten years.
Why make art?
I’ve always been drawing, it’s not even a question of why. It’s just always been a part of my existence. The majority of the world and pop culture has been mostly geared toward straight people, and I want to make art specifically for the queers.
What’s next?
Nothing huge on the horizon for me yet, just gonna keep making gay art!
