ValGruer doodles

Cover art

2012-02-13T08:54:00.000-08:00

Did someone ask for a cover art? Here!

BANDS IN SHAPE expo 8th of february 11

2011-02-22T07:44:00.000-08:00

Here's a collection of pieces of the latest expo I did in February the 8th, prints on vyinl covers, t-shirts, inspired by some of the bands that usually play in that same club: Sinister noise Club, in Rome.

What can I say? I am a habituè.

Luv ya all * (all illustrations here and to come, are printable on t-shirts, all sizes and colour - look me up on Skype: Val gruer, rome, Italy)

//////Graphics-looking for a new JOB//////

2010-10-25T03:34:00.000-07:00

Hello there, I 've been gone for a long time, I' had to deal with a lot of things: separation, moving out, travelling a lot, deleting part of my memories..but most of all falling in love again, all this was devastating in a kinda of a teenage way, I'm sure you know what I mean. Right now, I am pushing forward, everything is stimulating and interesting again, you'll hear from me soon, many things in the oven!
Here some new stuff I did to promote the very popular site: Trastevere, for a local Roman free press called METROMORFOSI.

nEw

2010-04-09T07:31:00.000-07:00

Lazy lazy

2010-03-08T08:26:00.000-08:00

I'm feeling very lazy these days, wanting to do so much stuff though.
New projects and expo in beautiful spring!!!!

And here it is an EXPO about SPLEEN and BOREDOM featuring the IMPROVISED SUPERLAZY COLLECTIVE!

If you're in Rome DON'T miss it!

Montage

2010-03-07T08:51:00.000-08:00

recipes// Italian magazine

2010-02-10T08:57:00.001-08:00

House exposition

2009-12-15T02:05:00.000-08:00

Yep we did it! And it was awesome! An entire apartment all for us! Me and my 4 friends, from art uni, had to cover all the space available into the house, walls, bathrooms, cieling, wardrobes and beds. I had the bathroom all for me, I turned the shower box into a giant lantern, and covered cielings and walls with old prints of mine, that matched the bathroom fornitures colours. Added some floating books (with nylon strings) and the magical effect I wanted turned real! I am so happy about this, we are trying to make a travelling expo, from house to house, from gallery to gallery..We'll see!

The one with the sharp face had the idea for "the titans of many post it" which is the piece behind her, an entire wall made by random positi, from people passing by and us, we couldn't stop giggling when drawing on them.

design for mankind post!!!

2009-11-20T05:53:00.000-08:00

I am soooo happy!
I just have been posted on Design for mankind! check it out

11.19.2009

OK I know I’m so want-y today, but really — I should have this, right?

Link: VAL GRUER

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Love. Pure and simple.

sloeginfizz — November 19, 2009 @ 1:08 pm
I LOVE this, sooooo cute.

Mabel and Zora — November 19, 2009 @ 5:20 pm

OH THE JOY!

IDOLS

2009-11-18T07:03:00.000-08:00

more to come

Two Stories

2009-11-13T15:29:00.000-08:00

This one is about people who disappear. We soon find out that they escaped, into the woods, to live a better life...a "real" one.

I love tigers. Let's see what happens when a Tiger appears in town..

Some More Sketches

2009-10-12T16:52:00.000-07:00

I will use these few sketches to create a short story for each one of my characters, here displaying: the not-so-heavy-man, the flying Nana (does not refer to the movie UP), the mithic god baby Ghatanothoa (a t-shirt design for the so named band, oh joy!), the heart broken croc and the boy who could play colours. Well, good recycling for my abandoned sketches, I think.

Portraits

2009-10-12T16:30:00.001-07:00

This is what my friends transform into when I draw them, they don't mind.

Sketches

2009-10-06T16:55:00.001-07:00

And some old stuff I'm not going to use anymore..sigh

2009-10-01T08:16:00.000-07:00

This was a small project for a children book for an underground magazine, it didn't turn out to be a real project, shame..

and some editorial stuff..

Original sketch for a Polysics flyer (live in Rome, awesome!)

New stuff!

2009-10-01T06:06:00.000-07:00

I have been looking for a job these days, and creating weird stuff

This is some other stuff I had to finish before crushing on the same couch where I was working on...
Sometimes I just can't stop making things.

This bag is HUGE! At first I thought to use it to bring my favourite pillow to the cinema, now I just bring it everywhere.

this stuff is all a bit random, I have been inspired by the New York Minute expo in Rome, which I found very random too, in a good way.

2009-06-26T11:34:00.000-07:00

"HELTER SKETCHES" expo

A bunch of sketches of all the people that would attend the exposition itself, I had a week to prepare all the illustrations and I'm pretty proud of how it came out.
I also hand binded a big sketchbook to hang to the cieling of the club so anyone could take a look and maybe find himself between pages.
We (me and my friend, with whom I shared the exposition) also made a bit of live painting, quickly sketching big portraits of people in the club from projections of their pictures on a wall. After we projected all the sketches in loop.
I had a lot of fun.
The place is a very popular underground live music club in Rome, and fortunately now it's pretty crowded.The expo will be up for two weeks!
All this working out made me create this little creature here.
I love her, and it has just been sold!

Older stuff

2009-05-26T07:25:00.000-07:00

Two illustrations from older book projects (Etching).

Doodlin' around

2009-05-26T06:54:00.001-07:00

Here's what came out from my sketchbook lately.

New Book project

2009-05-26T06:18:00.001-07:00

I always wanted to create an "ABC" kind of book, for children, it will be a little different though and funnier.
Fingers crossed.

Album cover

2009-05-26T05:57:00.001-07:00

This is one of my favourite bands, so I have put a lot of heart into this little design.
We had the release party last saturday, many cd's were sold.YAY!
Listen

Fashion project for Italian hats brand

2009-05-26T05:27:00.000-07:00

Here some of my latest project for a cool gallery in Rome I had the pleasure to work with, this winter, they had many intresting contacts and gave me the opportunity to share an exposition with one of my idols, Illustrator Daniel Egneus