happy birthday heather.

5.10

"One who performs his duty without attachment, surrendering the results unto the Supreme Lord, is unaffected by sinful action, as the lotus leaf is untouched by water."

show date moved.

hanging the show dec. 4th!

today the wonderful eyecandy (see pic below) helped me make frames. 

poor boy did most of the work.

i can now proficiently make frames with wood, an electric miter saw and staples.

franken-frames have been born.

2 of 3.

1 of 3

omnom

just some cuteness i've been doodling at work/from the bed.

godzira vs mothra

SOMEBODY HAS BEEN SLACKING.

OR JUST PAINTING 

instead of lurking the internets.

putting everything up soon.

Devotion.

when i started this... i hated everything about it.

i've never had to draw a stupid, jerk faced tiger.

(never been fond of animals in any way, until i started this totem project)

i hated meeting someone who had walls covered in tigers the day after.

all in all, this piece made me wanna throw up until this monday/tuesday.

i hadn't realized 4 hours had passed and i was actually running out of black paint.

i got so fixated.

regardless, i kinda stuck through it, determined that eventually i will have done ALL of the animal totem, that eventually i was gonna have to face this.

so i devoted myself.

and learned something.

and now i'm in love.

the end.

nycc twenty ten.

was amazing!

thanks to everyone who stopped by the dream in plastic booth!

we're getting a double booth next year. stop by then too! my diabolical plot to con jareddeal into a paint off is possible!

and i have a super crush on the eye candy.

soooooo

the night prior to that, i'd seen the new ron english gallery, and i'm in love.

again! saw the giant frankenstein and the most amazing paintings/animals ever made!

i'm so glad i went!

it made getting ripped off in little italy worth it.

hey, new nycc friends & lurkers, feel free to drop me a line:

www.twitter.com/RigorMoreTease

www.facebook.com/JSchrufer

or plain old email....

jschrufer (at) gmail (dot) com

ps. if you add me on fb i'll give you my po box so you can send me hate mail.

going Pro.

after realizing i do absolutely nothing useful with my hard earned money....
(aside from paying into my house-down-payment)
i'm investing in a macbook pro.

OH THE PRESSURE

being a pc is a labor of love i'm no longer willing to give.

so dear followers, if you happen to make it out to my

oct 30th robostravaganza

(Darkside Records & Gallery,
782 main st., poughkeepsie, ny)

all of the proceeds will go towards my payments on it!

the end.

TINY TIGERS!

sweet irony of starting this last saturday.

DEVOTION?

red radio.

hey now!

i got an invite for ron english's staus factory open bar from my loves at dream in plastic!
THAT GUY IS MY MORAL HERO.

itsy bitsy spider climbed up my totem collection.

rise above, we gotta rise above... to hit the ? box.

my maker's mark?

CONVERGENCE AT THE ARMORY.

http://convergencenyc.wordpress.com/

SWEET LINK BRAH....

just a little desription of how many people really pumped life into this show.
it was anormous and a lot to take in.
it was nice to see all kinds of different things, and to know that if 1/10 of the bullshit crap artwork i saw is successful, i will be.
not to knock anyone's work there, but i would be embarrassed if my name were on say... 30%-40% of it.
it was also nice to see one, count 'em one robot pieces. it factually overjoyed me. i mean, granted all i wanna paint is weird monstery things and robots, it's just nice to see that with that being a pool of artists who get more play than i do, i'm doing something not done and WELL. maybe i've missed the boat. maybe i'm steering it.

it was an amazing night overall, but i just wanted to give my comments, and that i was more intrigued by the actual military historical collection than i was 1/2 the work going on there. so in summation, i could paint an elf vagina or a giant splattered tomato, and make 500 bucks. awesome.

quick preview

of the stuff i'm donating to jason carpino's group show this saturday

although they'll all have to come back to me, it also includes francie brady and the koi piece.

XAViER ROBOTS: TRUE LOVE <3
(proud owner: Jenny Zuko)

The TO DO LIST.

my coverage and sadness at electric windows 7-31-10

so sad i didn't get to see faust's stuff, but here are some of my favorites!

slacking

so my homage to my family sold to the runner of the rust riot, who'd sprained some ligament connected to his pinky and he needed a hand. for 20 bucks, best sense of humor ever, i would have given this to mark for free.

but overall my work was loved.

which made me feel slightly loved.

yay

so my design has made it to shirt and bags! 

(fuck all you motherfuckers, b/c i'm on a tote!)

i guess....

i need to do photographs of bigger stuff.... or orchestrate miracles with my scanner.

 

the amazing francie brady!

installation one of idfk how many of the rise above, pma pieces i wanna do.

started another this morning while i finagled with this in the scanner.

looking at this, i am proud of myself, and how i've come along since january.

moons over my hammy

well here goes. rise above. and stop being offended.

it's a tribute to charlotte's web. yeah. i'll go with that.

whaaaat.

during my cleptomaniacal adventure at a.c. moore i was stunned to see that liquitex now makes an acrylic ink.

is it possible and/or wrong that i am now seeking a art supply sugar daddy?

any takers?

the to do list

so i'm halfway done with this. i wanna put some cutesy things on the right, tattoo flash style. 

later you'll see why i titled this the to do list. 

also-not to point out my faults but i need to stop and look at my work before i proceed. working from my bed gives some of my work tunnel vision type proportion. this is a prime example. after re-evaluating what i wanted to do with the piece, i decided to leave the hands as small as i'd drawn them in. it will work with the heavy right side better... BUT the original illustration had a gorgeous proportion that balanced it well. 

i will be breaking out the table top easel soon b/c this drove me nuts until i figured out where it was going to go.

all in all, i think this piece is amazing. so far.

getting there,

should be finishing this sometime during the week.

and tada!

fruition

thankfully these guys are really coming along. wanna put some splashy business and some fish blood.... or something. all that's important is that i got home at 4am and i'm still ready to work when i get up.

last night, in a dream.

started sketching these guys last night. 

this monster fight, ends today. possibly tomorrow.

rowbutt.

dream in plastic.... robots!

so i'm doing a bunch of cute robots for dream in plastic!

yaaaaay!

i love them, they love me, you know...

anyhow. xavier robots are back.

here's the first little guy!

COME OVER TO THE DARKSIDE

RECORD STORE & ART GALLERY!

AHAHAH

here ya go lady and gentlemens.

your font picks side by side, perhaps....

lending an aid in some decision making.

if there are any changes you'd like me to make... feel free to text or email or fb me!

<3 jeska.

rotten grrl threads

has asked me to design a screen printed shirt design.
here are the alternates!

productivity has been slowly amazing.

all of my pieces from the autism show got bids.

brb.

don't look mik. you'll spoil the surprise.

trying to figure out why i decided to stop today with the base layers at the point where he looked like a christmas tree. ahahah i really just came back to it 12 hours later to see it... i will be continuing this tomorrow night if all goes well. i suspect if i pull my head out of my ass this thing will be at the lexington manor's mayor's door within the next 2 weeks.

eek! don't peek!

LIVE CASTROBOT LIVE!

TODAY

!!!

!!

!

SOCIAL PARIAH SPESHUL:

example of the gem you could own from visiting social pariah fest.

i'm selling them for 2 bucks a pop, haiku, doodle, cute card.

or, appropriately, free with the purchase of whiskey for my consumption.

10 minit!

that is all.

ps- all dudes need this outfit (love, kate and jeska @ the hereticwear table.)

greg+dez=4eva

rick lobstah, cue the b52's.

"When I was a kid, my mom used to bring home lobster bibs from work. I used to put em on backwards and run around pretending i was a super hero named Lobster Man!"

oooh apples.

going the way of the buffalo!

 

this is the first roundof sketches. vanessa was in favor of the far right!

it's her love child, every one of these symbolic animal doodles.

 i'm following through with this sketch... giving birth to....