Business Cards

Like I said before about themes popping up intermittently through my work after years of absence, here's some bright colourful buildings that I've created recently.













These designs actually came out of the background for my recent Steampunk stencil. And fun fact, they're also business cards! Back in November for the Steampunk show I wanted to have business cards on hand. But between scrambling on getting the stencil itself done and the frustration of trying to get a website up I didn't make a deadline to get a design done and professionally printed. So I figured I'd do something a bit different that the printer wouldn't have been able to provide me with anyway. I like the idea of how the cards can be displayed all together to create their own cityscape. The only problem is that when I wasn't handing them out personally and they were just on display, people didn't realize they were business cards. I'll have to think of a solution to this display problem. Aside from blue and green the cards themselves actually fit within standard business card dimensions. Amusingly, the blue and green were the most popular and I ran out of them first. The sad thing is that since I just printed these off my home PC on card stock, the fine tips get bent up pretty quickly and smudging and water damage claimed a handful. But good news! I think I've found an affordable way to have this concept professionally printed and I should have them in January. I decided I wanted to create a few new designs and scrap some of the originals to create a full spectrum rainbow of buildings.


I originally tried to tie in each building design with an emotional drive that corresponds to the colour, but that theme kinda falls apart. Bonus points if you know where the inspiration for this comes from and can spot design elements hidden in a few buildings that reference it.

Robotic Tea Party!

This is a piece I just created for a Secret Santa dinner party with some other art school grads. It combines some of my favorite things: robots, tea, mustache, bow ties, and general airs of sophistication. I'm thinking a series of charming robotic socialite vignettes would really add to the decor of some opulent tea house. It's a possible series I'll come back to soon.

What is old is new again! Water Colours! pt. 2

Again, here's a playful water colour I did some years ago.


Looking at this I notice how I've learned a few things about water colours and painting these past few years. Strangely, or maybe not, I'm not sure what other art schools are like. But at the one I attended, it didn't seem like it even occurred to most of the teachers that some sort of variations of painting techniques should be taught, or explained in some way. So up to this day I'm really learning something new with every new painting I do and supplementing that with library books on techniques and looking at other artist's work. This doesn't actually sound too unusual or bad when I type it. But those art teachers could have said, "oh by the way, there's such a thing as masking fluid, you might want to look into it, it's pretty awesome."
What I really find interesting about this particular piece is how I made it so many years ago in relative isolation from other work during that time, and how it ties into current themes I'm interested in.

What is old is new again! Water Colours! pt. 1

So here's an illustration that I did quite a while ago, and unlike most older work which fills me with a deep shame and embarrassment, this I still find charming in its own way.

This was actually one of my first experiments with overlapping ink drawing on a textured wash of watercolour. It's a good thing it turned out well for me or I could have neglected this sexy mingling of mediums. This specific piece came out of a combination of overlapping events. First, was a highpoint of fascination with anatomical prints, such as Gray's Anatomy. Second, a drawing assignment where we had to pick an object to draw 40 times over in different ways and viewpoints etcetera. Thirdly, I'd recently had my wisdom teeth removed and they were sitting around on my desk in a little plastic box. I'm pretty certain I almost copied this tooth composition exactly from a print I came across, just changing the shape/ type of tooth. But I still think it's great, and maybe I'll get back to doing more of these someday. If you know any dental offices looking for art I think something like this would be amazing. It'd definitely beat lame ass prints of Orcas jumping and coastal sunsets.

Steampunk

Here's a digital sample of a piece I made for the Steampunk Symposium which is up at The Fall Tattoo and Artist's Gallery till December 5th.
The show had a great opening full to the brim of people dressed in exquisite steampunk finery.
This is the most elaborate stencil I've made in a while. It's nothing too complicated, but there are areas of fine detail and thin bridging that were disconcerting. I'm super happy with how it turned out and I'm excited about new ideas for other work that creating this has inspired.
Oh! I have a website now! www.benworth.ca Well, it's just a front page, but in January once I have a few projects out of the way I'll start to build it up.

Wildlife & Robots

Here's some moderately recent illustrations of wildlife that's adorned envelopes and cards for friends.






Always an ongoing theme; whether destroying, loving, on their own, enslaving humanity or tenderly embracing a dinosaur, robots are the greatest! They're everything the future should be hopeful for, and fear.

Drawing Theme?

I came across this while checking out http://drawn.ca/

http://www.terribleyelloweyes.com/

There's a tonne of great illustrations here, and I thought we might as well get on that 'Where The Wild Things Are' bandwagon. At least it's an idea for new random sketching that I think I would actually do. We should just meet up soon for tea with a couple copies of the book and sketch.

Things loving things!

I can't believe it took me 3 months to post on here... sorry, I'm sure I'll be more consistent what with the random art I've been making while putting the final touches on my book paintings.
Anyway, here's my second Dinosaurs Fucking Robots submission. I'm really pleased with myself over this one. Hopefully it'll go up on the official site soon, if not I'll just have to create my own forum for this ongoing series.



Here's the first one I painted. It's a bit more wholesome.



Coming soon: T-Rex & Pachylcephalosaurus!

Procrastination!!!

Look at me, actually posting something on here. Sorry for the delay, but I tried to do some sketches that were related to the blog title and failed miserably. But enough of that, I'm just going to post up some of my most recent work that I'm proud of.
The first being a stencil I did of local live pa artist Longwalkshortdock


I'm really happy with how it turned out, before I started cutting I imagined it would be more complicated than it turned out to be, the only sticky area was the NES controller.

Hmm... I'm having trouble uploading another image... blast, I'll make another post.

But here's a super useful site I found recently!

http://lostandtaken.com/

うんこさん Unko-san!

Okay to stimulate productivity I must share Unko-san, the lucky poo fairy. My favourite is Baba-kun's father, Jyaiantsu Baba because he has cool mushrooms growing in his gym and he's pretty much awesome for a poo.

Ola! & Ahoy!

Wow I was really tired and somewhat dehydrated at work today so to stay awake and be good I was drawing these here silly little drawings and in an effort to feel productive after pretty much looking at card/board games online for 2 hours after I got home I decided to colour them up something fierce and see how much of a run-on sentence I could pen.. I mean tablet? Anywhey and crud I thought they were kinda funny.. After that I just started sketching some silly Darth Vader pics and some innapropriate doodles that I might get around to posting once they're more than a few scratches of pen on the sides of a confidential document.

Post Number One

What a great day to start a blog. It's my very own 1/2 birthday.
Okay Ben since I've popped a few things up and made a quick banner I'll let you post the first art even if it's a logo for the site shall we just load up a bunch of sketches and comment and from there see if we can work over the interwebbulae?
Plus we should probably have some sort of appropriateness guide lines. Shall we regulate content as well? Like, shall I just rant on about the hookers (aka: ladies of pleasure) in my building?

In the begining...

Hey Ben, what kind of background and such shall we have? I just dropped in the first template due to simplicity for now but we should probably create our own I find standard blog width a little thin. Oh and we should sign our little stuff as I do below. We can totally edit this later and such. Also I think with the name we've chosen we probably have our first few themes bases overflowing. Play around with our lack of fonts all you want. I always prefer things so small 1/2 the peeps won't be able to read it. But do we really need blind followers?.. prolly. Also with progress in mind if one of us thinks of a theme that the other wishes to usurp let that encourage something fun... Say you want Gorilla and I want Robots... = Robot Gorillas & Gorillas vs. Robots + maybe some good ol' fashion steam punk monkey bounty hunters... etc. whatever goes.

Oh you also know we can pre post stuff and schedule it to appear...

After you showed me that "god" image I think you'll enjoy this, as I made a bunch of them for an animated .gif a while back. I think it's basically the most simple way to represent an omnipotent being. Go all seeing triangle! Do you have any pics of any gods?
- Peter