rob borer

I am no stranger to art. I remember when I was about 4 years old and my father was sitting down with me and drawing a bus on the inside of a Velveeta cheese box. He drew every side of it and instead of me playing with it, I asked him how to draw. I don’t remember what his response was, but he gave me a pencil and paper and off I went. My parents signed me up to attend classes at the Toledo Museum of Art. I sketched and drew from then on. When I entered middle school, I took the few art classes that were available. I remember learning perspective. In high school I took so many are classes that I never took general science and had to go back so I could graduate. One of my teachers noticed that I drew text a lot, so she steered me towards commercial art. I began experimenting with Prisma markers around this time and began working on sketchbooks full of art and graffiti. This was around twenty years ago and well before you would ever see a graffiti piece last on a wall for more than a few days.

In middle school, the time I began learning more formal art, I began skateboarding. This introduced me to the whole punk-rock counter culture. Ultimately hip-hop became popular which offered me another venue of information. I had access to many different viewpoints and underground ideas and attitudes that most people never get a chance to brush shoulders with. I continued to create, but once I graduated high school, I took a break from formal art and just worked on sketchbooks. I ultimately want to college to get a Bachelors degree in Philosophy. I bartended at a little rock bar to pay my bills during college which gave me a whole new realm to draw from for my art. During this period of time I began creating flyers and posters for bands.

In fact, I have a very diversified background when it comes to art. I enjoy the fine arts, underground art, and music. I have Bachelors in Philosophy and I have gained a great many tools for; critique, analysis, problem solving, and experimentation. Philosophy has given me the ability to think outside the box. By attending college for commercial art I am practicing and learning the proper ways to create. With the tools that I have gained from personal experience, as well as college, I am gaining a greater understanding of what solutions a client desires.