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Phil Ware
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Husband, father, artist (photographer, writer), musician (Plague Morphology), Red Wings fan, NRL fan, fan of metal music as well as a few other genres...so many things...
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"Swirly Faces"
I meant to post this on Halloween, but life happened. So here's the animated creation of "Swirly Faces" as drawn in ProCreate.
The music is "Bag of Faces." I took silly lyrics I wrote (alt) and tested an AI music model on my system. It's not putrid, so I produced it a little. Ta-da?
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Whoah! I can retire!
For those who think artists can survive in the current digital distro model, if your name doesn't rhyme with "Metallica" or "Taylor Swift," your stream revenues -- whether on Spotify, YouTubeMusic, Apple Music, Deezer, Pandora, what-have-you, it's not realistic, at all.
The "royalties" distribution payout tile from ReverbNation for Plague Morphology's "Paths of Totality" showing that, having been live since 8/11/2024, the total "income" is 1 cent.
September 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Do you prefer black and white or color?
Also, I was asked if I do commissions. It's not something I've considered. Should I?
A black and white sketch of a dessicated face with some bony features protruding and eyes bulging uncomfortably. The technique is heavily reliant on smudging and the textures involved most closely resemble cloth, folded or stretched. The colorized version of the black and white sketch of a dessicated face with some bony features protruding and eyes bulging uncomfortably. The technique is heavily reliant on smudging and the textures involved most closely resemble cloth, folded or stretched. The cloth is a deep blue but with several hues of blue with varying saturations of grey and white, for emphasis. The bulging eyes are red with yellow and white highlights. The teeth are bone-white and set inside a purple-ish and pinkish mouth. The skin tone, overall, is a primary layer of bone with a moss green hue and deeper yellow highlights.
September 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Here we have members of Amon Amarth headbanging with Zakk Wylde during the chorus of the Pantera song "Walk."
Phenomenal show by both bands and while this isn't a great photo, the weirdly dark and almost sepia toning was pretty cool, I think.
Members of Amon Amarth headbanging with Zakk Wylde during the chorus of the Pantera song "Walk."
September 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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This is "Swirly Skulls."
I'm not 100% happy with it, but happy enough to share.
Various sketches in white and red of several skulls on a field of black.
September 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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This is the finished drawing of the one I posted a while back. It's a little weird.
A black and white sketch of an inhuman skeleton with oversized skull and eyes with various pieces of spinal column attached to either the skull or to the odd his splay with three leg bones protruding downwards.
September 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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"Personal Space Violation"
If you've ever had a Ring-billed Gull land on you, you can sympathize with this Red-breasted Merganser's irritation. This was just after the touch-and-go landing on said Merganser's head.

NikonD6
1/2500 @ f/6.3 @ ISO400 @ 300mm
On a lake there is a flock or whatever you call a swimming group of Red-breasted Mergansers. Towards the lower edge of the group, a Ring-billed Gull has landed on and taken off from the top of a Merganser's head. The Merganser's expression is one of severe irritation as it swims forward at great speed.
September 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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"Wow."
Dr's office doodle.
August 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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The moon filtered through an AQI of 151..
Nikon D6 @ 500mm @ f/7.1 @ 1/250 @ ISO400
the moon in a very deep orange hue reflecting the 151 air quality index.
August 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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OK. So, look... it's like you WANT a data breach.
An error message when trying to change a password that states "Password must have a maximum of 16 chars."
July 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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This week has been... a week.
I sketched this out while watching "Longlegs."
A pencil sketch of a face with a slightly disproportionately large eye being gripped by four fingertips and a hook piercing the forehead just above the eyebrow.
July 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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I know. I know... "don't engage the scammers..."
Full disclosure: this is an example of generative AI, in case you couldn't tell. I mean, I guess it could have been my actual DMV photo. I often think it would be hilarious if the DMV managed cross-dimensional photography...
July 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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this week's work in progress. again, working through some stuff, i think.
black and white sketch of a misshapen skull somewhat attached to scapula and clavicle assemblies with some vertebrae and things hanging about with bits of hair and viscera.
July 4, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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It's Thursday. Have a pinecone.
A photograph of a pinecone from below with deep browns and greens.
June 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Some of these are finished, some are works in progress, all are iPad scribblings in either Sketchbook or Infinite Painter.
"Faces,"
"Oh, hai,"
"Splorp (obviously as good as 'untitled' but more fun to say),"
"Walls,"
Titled "Faces," it's a black background with ochre smear and in the upper lefthand corner, a wispy skull, towards the right center is a face that almost looks like Abbath-style corpsepaint, and in the lower left corner, an eye, blue, with facial wrinkling around the eye. Titled "Oh, hai." it's a ghostly apparition whose only visible features are pale but piercing eyes, a gruesome upper jaw of slender and dripping fangs, and grasping talons. A work-in-progress titled "Splorp," though it's more just the top half of a skull with, at this point, weird weepy moldy stuff dripping off it with the beginnings of a cobbled together crown hammered into the top of the skull. In attempt to make something not creepy, "Walls," is still kind of sinister with burned out buildings with red-hued smoke in the background. This is all on a green grassy base.
May 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Correct misinterpretation is important.
#OhNoNot8647
"8647" is subversive? lol Remember: things only have the power in their meanings that we give them. Also... "86" generally means "we're out of <blah> so take it off the menu." If you're going to misinterpret things, misinterpret them correctly.
May 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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This is "Inner 1." It's my first foray into... digital traditional media. It's been a while, but it's obvious that I'm working through some stuff, as the kids say.
A digital painting of a screaming inhuman face with exposed bones connecting where the eye sockets should be on a black miasmic background with a more conventional but more ethereal skull peering in from above.
May 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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I saw this illustration of an Islamic Iblisse-related devil/demon meetup, from the looks of it, but also looks like the two demons/devils looking at each other, pointing, and, of course, "aaaaaaaaaaaaay!" So, I had to make a meme.
an Islamic Iblisse-related devil/demon meetup, from the looks of it, but also looks like the two demons/devils looking at each other, pointing, and, of course, "aaaaaaaaaaaaay!"
April 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Waiting for the digital distribution to zhoosh this off to the normal streaming services, here's a direct link to my new Plague Morphology single, "Sisyphean!"
www.reverbnation.com/plaguemorpho...
The cover for Plague Morphology's single "Sisyphean" depicts a man pushing a large boulder with the words "Plague Morphology" displayed through a crumbling road with husks of discarded and derelict automobiles.
April 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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In case you were concerned TwiXter couldn't make the user experience less enjoyable...
April 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Bluesky's character count limits the effectiveness of spinning a good non-existent advert for a non-existent service. So, here's a screenshot instead.
The picture is Cthulhu using tentacles to meticulously edit a document on a desk covered in skulls and candles and highlighter pens. The associated text from the post is "So, as Hemingway helps improve the readability of documents, I offer my services under the name "Lovercraftinator" and will decrease overall readability by plebes by increasing word count, sentence length, paragraph density, and adding eerie phrasing at the recommendation of the Eldritch while maintaining consistency of tone that is pleasing to the Elder Gods. If it's good enough for Cthulhu, it's good enough for your lowly readership. If you do not 100% loathe your product, there's a full money-back guarantee should you live that long. Rules and conditions apply, but I don't make the rules; hail Dagon."
April 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Me, since November...
A meme of Captain Jack Sparrow yelling "stop blowing holes in my retirement" with a graph of the year-to-date drop in my investment of 11.92%, with a second overlay showing the total 38% drop since November.
April 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Good morning, swirly clouds. How are you, this morning?
An apartment complex with swirling clouds above it.
April 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Who needs AI when you have "Phil's Box of High School Memories & Horrors?"
A black and white photograph of a rhesus monkey skull with a mallard duck bill attached at the mouth and wearing a box turtle shell as a hat
April 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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From the aforementioned KLF-AV4001s, we have a repurposed tweeter -- keeping the screws from all the speakers together in a convenient spot.
While not a "black and white image of cake," it IS a black and white photograph of a disembodied tweeter from the previously mentioned KLH-AV4001 speakers, rest in peace, with a pile of screws attached in various and sundry angles and levels of attachment to the magnet.
March 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM