The Beginning of the End 2: Illustrious Illustration

It's that time again! More preparation for my metamorphosis once again. This time I present you with the business card design for the illustration side of things. The "David Schuler illustration" fonts are customized and all of the drawings were produced by me. The "Muscle Man" drawing on the front of the card will return for the website design. Stay tuned!

The Beginning of the End

After four years, I've decided to re-brand myself. Furthermore, I've decided to split up my graphic design and my illustrative work to prevent any confusion as to what I intend to show depending on the client. My design and illustration sides are very different and just to further that rift of duality in my mind, I am creating two completely different branding styles to house each one. That being said, the pseudonym "Schulore" will be retired and thus this blog will come to an end. Not to worry, two will rise from the ashes- one which represents my graphic design and the other that represents my illustration and fine art.

I've completed branding and nearly the new website for one- the graphic side of things which will be called "david schuler_creative" or "DSC".

More detailed screenshots of the website and stationary will show up soon.

The Anti-Art III: The Bully Galleria

Continued from my last posting nine months ago, I have given birth to six pieces of work, and working on a seventh. All going according to schedule.... which I suppose would be a truthful statement if it wasn't a complete lie. In reality, winter came and I got locked into other projects ranging from Christmas presents (see the last couple posts on here) and working on a comic book fever dream of mine that has been in this "development hell" for far too long. Funny how time seems to scream by at an incredible pace. Before I knew it winter has come and gone (which I am SO happy about) and suddenly there's this renewed interest in my Anti-Art project after revisiting the various galleries in the Cleveland/Akron area and getting that "mojo" back.


Now, the initial feelings of negativity toward that wonderful gallery owner which began this whole process all those months ago are still there, but I like to think they're more refined. More focused. With a solid direction of what I'm trying to "do" with this style of horror abstract surreal nastiness that appears on the page from my deranged fingertips. Awhile back someone asked me what I was trying to say through my art. Quite honestly, I'm not trying to say anything. I'm not that profound. I hate trying to put meaning behind a piece of artwork. I could scrawl a traffic light and 20 different people could have 20 different interpretations of what it "means" when in the end, it's a crappy picture of a traffic light and nothing more.

He also expressed that creating art is an emotional activity and without said emotion behind the art, the piece is essentially meaningless. I'm not sure if I fully agree with his statement, but I see where he's coming from. In my heart of hearts, this series is almost a line of me getting out some frustration in some form of therapy. But what makes me more satisfied with making it is watching the emotional responses from others that look at it. whether its positive or negative, some kind of response is what makes doing these pictures worth it. It's shocking. It's gross. It makes you uncomfortable. It could offend you. I've gotten a gamut of responses from my friends and family ranging from "What happened to your art?" to "You're not right in the head" to "That's amazing! I want one!". The pieces are less about the emotion I put into them and more about the reaction I get out of others. In short, I'm a bully. Only doing something to get a reaction.

Anyway, in my travels around the galleries in the Akron/Canton area (in Ohio) I caught wind of someone looking for an artist to set up and work in his studio. This sounded like a really cool opportunity so I responded. Since then, he's made mention of a possible gallery showing at the end of July/beginning of August that will feature my "bully art" along with a number of other artists. This gallery is called the HUB and it is located in Canton, OH. Here's a link to the tumblr account of the owner: http://tscarmany.tumblr.com/

Very excited about doing this. Nothing is set in stone, but I sincerely hope if comes to fruition.

So in light of this development, I've gone back and done some tweaking to my existing pieces and created some new ones. Here is everything I have thus far in this series. First I think I'll show what I'm presently working on:

And the process that got me to this point:

And here is what I have completed. (Yes, I realize there will be some repeats from previous blog entries)

 

The Return of the Maxx

It's been a long time coming! I've been working on a Maxx drawing on and off since 2010 and I FINALLY finished it! Woah! Originally it was to be a Christmas present for a friend of mine which never came to fruition. Well, I changed my tune and finished the picture! Now, since then this image has gone through a number of changes and revisions... none of which I will be posting here because I don't feel like it. Anyway here's the final image!

...And the progression of how I made said image. Enjoy!

Ink Inkley and the Legend of the Lined Paper 2: The Scrolls of Black and Crimson

It's been a long time coming and rather than impressing everyone with a finished project of grandeur, I've decided to present ink doodles from work! Woah! Enjoy these and I promise I'll have something of more substance next time.


(Promise not a guarantee)

Superhero Progress Timesheet

Happy new year! It's been 5 months since I've posted on this thing and in that time I've completely stopped doing all forms of art and decided to be infinitely unhappy working in the wonderful world of accounting.

...Just kidding.

Anyway, I has much new arts to show over the next few weeks. For the first piece, lets harken back to Halloween 2012. My girlfriend and I met up with a bunch of her friends who all decided to dress up as various DC superheros/superheroines. Pretty cool. Anyway, my girlfriend got the idea for me to draw her friends Jon and Elyse (who dressed up as Superboy and Wonder Woman) all comic book style for a Christmas present. I thought this was a fabulous idea. Especially for Jon whom like myself, is a huge comic book geek.

So without further ado, here is the drawing I did for them from beginning to end!

1. First I had to practice drawing THEM. If it didn't at least resemble them, I think I'd look pretty foolish.

2. Humble sketching...
 




















3. Looking a bit clearer

4. Finished Pencils!





















5. The Inking Process...

6. Finished Inks!

 



7. A Little Coloring Action

8. The Finished Piece!