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This issue's guard illustration by Mark E. Schuler gives us a glimpse into the life of an adolescent girl with anorexia (see article in succession page 297). Moments after her shower, the girl clutches her towel with nervous hands as she weighs herself. What do the numbers in succession the bathroom scale tell her? Has her family been encouraging her to gain weight, while she's privately terrified that the scale will climb? Artist Mark Schuler draws our attention to the major conflicts affecting this young girl. The throw into disorder of cosmetics and beauty aids in succession the bathroom counter, while a typical part of a teenage girl's armamentarium, emphasizes the compages interplay of emotion and carcass image in this patient.

Mr Schuler of Prairie Village, Kan., has illustrated many of AFP's overspreads and has become a favorite choice when an illustration calls for a focus onward psychologic or emotional issues. You may remember his illustrations of a man with chronic alcoholism, a lad with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, a man with tension headache, and a pregnant woman preparing for air travel. You descry right away the emotional tension in these patients and the stout feelings that Mr. Schuler creates between the walls of the use of color, light, and composition.

Mr Schuler being a local Kansas City artist, has a lengthy affiliation with the American Academy of Family Physicians. He first came to know AFP's art coordinator more than 25 years ago, and he's been contributing veils ever since. In addition to his work for AFP, he has illustrated many secretes for the AAFP Home-Study Self-Assessment monograph series.

With nearly 30 years of experience as a freelance illustrator, Mr Schuler has an impressive list of clients and accolades. He has illustrated for the National Wildlife Federation, U Postal Service, lad Scouts of America, Hallmark Cards, McGraw Hill Publishing, Scholastic Pres Guideposts Magazine, Bantam works and many others. He has won national awards for illustration and has worked onward international projects, such as first day conceals for European stamps through Euro Space. He also was commissioned to do 25 commemorative paintings celebrating space exploration in succession the 20th anniversary of the lunar landing. Paintings were unveiled at the World Stamp Expo and used as postal stamps for the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Mr Schuler originally began his studies in aerospace engineering moreover quickly learned that his interest and talents were in illustration, and he pursu a stage in advertising and editorial art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. After receiving his BFA standing he began work as an art director and at undivided time worked for Scholastic Magazines in just discovered York, N.Y. He knew his constant preference was a freelance career in illustration and at so early an hour returned to Kansas City. His work as an illustrator has been auspicious since then, and he is a member of the novel York Society of Illustrators. In addition, he maintains a full-time teaching position at the Kansas City (Mo) Art Institute.

Mr Schuler's primary goal as an illustrator is to make population feel happy and like what he does. He starts his day at 4:00 a.m. and many times sits in the dark as he get by hearts into his mind set, working without his painting day. As part of his creative approach, he likes to think about nation and admire them, trying to find happiness in relationships between people. He finds that he constantly says people, looking at shadows in their faces, their facial formations and their smiles. When drawing figures, he relies in succession multiple photos of models, always choosing population he knows and who are comfortable working with him. His greatest belong tos are composition, design, rhythm and harmony, as well as color theory and the emotions evok on color selections.

Mr Schuler is a bit old-fashioned, he says, in that he presents fine art to computer art, and works with tinges acrylics, colored pencils, and oils in a garage studio. Nothing leaves his drawing board until it is his best work, regardless of the pay or the deadline. Maybe it is an old-fashioned way of doing business, further we admire his sense of craftsmanship and waiting under the possibility of fulfilment the paints and oils and other clatter remain permanent fixtures in his garage.

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