Shirt design for Discomfort

New t-shirt design for Vicenza, Italy’s Discomfort. They needed something dark and crusty to fit with their music style and I went with a scratchy ink style for their job. I wanted to slightly change some of the elements in the design to be different than the usual bullets-n-skulls crust style, since Discomfort meld a variety of sounds into their music and I am influenced by many different things too. So, a vulture, and head mark and some loose coins at the bottom might make the piece more unique.

Gostworks on Instagram

You can now follow Gostworks on Instagram. Most of the same work I post there is the same as here at the main site, albeit squarely cropped and far less verbose. The format does allow for WIP photos and random sketches much more fluidly so I will occasionally post those as well. I do appreciate the feedback and like the ease of connecting with people and other artists on there.

Tongues 3

Tongues 3, the latest in my series (and first new painting of 2013) about extinct peoples and lost languages. Previous pieces can be seen here and here.

New Art 2013

This one was a fast doodle with a silver Sharpie on black board. I like working with high-contrast sometimes, and had fun going freeform without an outline too. I think subconsciously this piece had me thinking about an album cover by now-defunct Scottish crusters Sedition, featuring a Pictish man, cartoony, but in full adornment. I of course put my own twist on it by incorporating the Middle Eastern, Art Nouveau and Punk styles I often reference.

Art for Stoic Dissention shirts

I’m really excited to announce that two of my paintings, Human 1 and Human 4, will be reproduced on shirts for Denver’s Stoic Dissention. They play progressive, innovative doom metal and thought that my art fit well with their music, and it does. Up until this point, most of my work for musicians has been custom pieces primarily done in ink, so I am glad to have been part of this, as both an experience with new people as well as an opportunity to reproduce my paintings on apparel.

Merch on Tour, Europe!

Both Heartless (US), and The Long Haul (UK) will be on tour seperately through October/November 2012, and will have merch with designs shown on here previously. Get out and support these bands, support hardcore!!

Ambient + Human show at TRVE Brewing, 9.21.2012

Ambient + Human – Two Painted Series by Brian D’Agosta opens on Friday, September 21, 8 p.m. at TRVE Brewing, 227 Broadway, #101, Denver. I am so excited for this opportunity to show my work as painted and presented in a unique and beautiful space that honors both our creativity.