Freshies

A rejected t-shirt idea that had to be done. If anyone feels the urge to have this printed on a band's album, please let me know. The only stipulation I have is that there is a hidden message when spun backwards.

Some of the coloring process.

Interest in Chet Baker combined with a renewed interest in scratchboard.

Some new sidewalk sign drawings I've done for Gimme Coffee.

Stickers of Lore

When you grow up in a small town, and are denied access to the local bars due to the legal drinking age requirement to enter those bars, boredom sometimes gets the better of you. So you create imaginary bike gangs and you ride around with your friends all night, occasionally making a pit stop to eat a "road dog" in front of the neighborhood strip club. Then years pass, you grow up(?)  and all of a sudden you feel inclined to make stickers commemorating that weird time in your life.

Learn something new. Here's another meaning for the word lore: The surface on each side of a bird's head between the eye and the upper base of the beak, or between the eyes and nostrils in snakes.

I'm your huckleberry

Made a new image for the homepage of my website: philashworth.com

Another Glimpse Into My Free Time...

...and another astronaut exploding. I must be regressing into my pre-teens. There's no other explanation for all this weird sci-fi/astronauts dueling in space bullshit I've been sketching a ton of recently.

Bryan Ferry. One of my favorites.

Here's some classic Ferry doin' "Slave to Love" and a cover of "Jealous Guy" that totally beats Lennon's original. And David Gilmour is even there rippin' it up.

The Boss doin' the classic boss face. For years I couldn't stand him, then he became a guilty pleasure, now I have just come to accept that I am a Springsteen fanatic.

Paul Ryan. Never trust anyone with two first names.

Here are some of the sketches I did of Iggy Pop. Doing all of these helped me figure out which pose I wanted to use on the sign for Gimme Coffee, which I think there's an obvious choice here, but then I just couldn't stop drawing him. Seriously some of the most fun poses to sketch for reference. Pic of the sign can be seen in my previous post.

I hope this happens.

Advertising For Coffee

Soooo, I've been doing these a-frame drawings for Gimme Coffee in Brooklyn for about a year now and people seem to get a kick out of them, which made me think I should start photographing them and putting them on some one of my sites. I don't usually try to put too much thought into them, except for a few here and there, which keeps them pretty enjoyable to do. The more spontaneous and ridiculous, the better. It's only when it comes to attempting to erase the marker that an insane rage starts to build inside of me. I wish I could share all of them, but here are the ones I've done since I started to document this job.

The infamous Iggy Pop back-bend he used to do at his live shows. I included a flipped photo just in case someone really wanted to see it.

 My ode to Goblin.

Never Coming to a Theater Near You

I was chattin' about the Upstate wineries on Seneca Lake with someone and freaked them out by mentioning that the deepest point of Seneca Lake has never been located. I thought it'd be fun to make some sort of cheesy 50's style horror movie poster about it.

Also, following in the cheese factor of 50's sci-Fi/horror, I made a new header for the blog. Didn't really veer away from the gross out factor of the first one.

The New Blessed Mother

I may have gotten too specific with the details, which could quickly make it look dated, but I think the idea is there at least.

Seasons Tee

SEASONS SKATE SHOP in Albany, NY recently asked me to do a graphic that would be included in a batch of new shirts they're putting out. Check out the line-up HERE. Their photos of the shirts are much more glamorous than mine. Anyways, I'm really psyched to be included in this bunch. GO SUPPORT THEM YOU SKATEBOARD MINIONS.

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These are some of the initial sketches. Still love that headless chicken at the bottom with blood squirting up into the logo.

More of The Gang

Some more of the faces that I've been doing on a daily basis. Not sure how I managed to draw Rick Ross, Willie Nelson and John Steinbeck all in a row, but there must be some weird underlying connection that caused me to move from one to the next.

Hank Revisited

Went back to the Hank Williams piece and tried to get it a little bit closer to something that resembled a finished illustration. I try not to rework drawings after I begin work on another project, to me it's just retreading old ground, I think it's easier for me to accept the mistakes and just work past them with a new piece. But, I had spent so much time on this one that it felt like I had just left it unfinished, without trying to fully solve the problem. At the moment it feels completed, but either way, I'll have to move on this time.

I've also included some warm up sketches I try to do before I work on a more involved piece. These tend to help me loosen up or give me idea's for bigger projects.

And a random drawing of a wolf.

Hank

I really got the urge to do a portrait of Hank Williams recently, so I got down to sketching out some idea's and tried to come up with something that captured some sort of feeling/look I get from his music. I've tried here and there over the years to work text into my illustrations, with mostly poor results, but this piece made me want to delve into really concentrating on the dynamic of the image and text and how to create a cohesive illustration utilizing the two.

Below are some preliminary sketches for the palette, text and the atmosphere I was trying to achieve.

I Can't Quit You Blogger

So, I decided to come back to blogger. I'm still using my Tumblr, but I thought it'd be really neat to give myself another thing to do so that I can drive myself crazy even faster. I honestly started to feel like I had abandoned a child, or forgot my little brother at the grocery store. Damn you internet! Here are some recent pictures I have made.

Skateboard graphic I recently did for Black Sheep skate shop in Columbus, Ohio.

I swear I haven't become this cynical about skateboarding. I still love it. I think I still have some years ahead of me before I trade in my time that I used to skate for time on the bar stool.

Wizard logo for Spells Cast

Danny Devito

    

Epic battle scene for the new Eva Anexora album Weaken'd & Broken, We Make for Shore                                                               

Jake Phelps

Two different ways I chose to pay homage to my favorite horror movie of all time. Yea, you read that right. I can guarantee that no horror movie in the future will impress me as much as An American Werewolf in London does. And even if it does, I won't admit it.