A self-proclaimed `Apple nerd` talks about turning sketches into dollars with the Apple Pencil.
Arturo `Duro the Third` Parada is confident. He`s a big guy with a shaggy salt-and-pepper beard and shaved head who leans in when he talks because he`s very excited. That demeanor, he admits, can be intimidating to some who don`t know him — though in the Toronto art scene, most people know him — but Duro, as he prefers to be called, has been an Apple fan since his childhood.
`I`m a hardcore Apple nerd,` he tells me as we sit across from one another in an empty lounge inside an airy studio space in Toronto`s Liberty Village, a former industrial area that, in recent years, has become one of the city`s most vibrant creative hubs. A few years ago, a sketch of the late Steve Jobs went viral, which caught the attention of artists and entrepreneurs, both local and abroad.
Duro`s work is in high demand in this neighborhood because he has redirected his once-rebellious graffiti out...
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