It’s been a couple of years since I last saw new art by Joe Phillips (in Stripped: Uncensored), but I’d missed a self-published sketchbook published in September 2010. It’s a well-designed, large size, hardcover book of 84 pages full of recent good boy art (as in “good girl art”).
It might be called a sketchbook, but most of the black-and-white drawings shown in this book are complete enough to be publishable. As usual with Phillips, the men drawn are young and well muscled, often sporting tattoos or piercings. I already thought Phillips’s finished art was impressive, so it was very interesting to get to see the line art, sometimes with shading, most of the time without. And the result is that you can really see how fine and precise his line art is, with an attention to details of body and face, hair or clothes foldings. This is the kind of art you first look at for the sexiness, and then you keep on looking at it for the beauty of the line itself.
The subjects range from simple half-dressed guys showing their smile to full-on sex, with everything in between. But the common theme is happiness: whatever they’re doing, Phillips’s Joe Boys are always enjoying themselves. It’s a kind of utopia, where both straight and gay boys look laid back and relaxed, forgetting real-world worries and barriers.
Being self-published, this book seems available only from Lulu.com.
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