This is concept art for a project I have on the back burner.

Score this design: “Drag Queen,” to help it get printed on Threadless!

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Art for the People

This is a remix of a drawing/painting I did in my moleskine notebook.

My contest rules apply. See details here.

King of Beasts

This design was originally submitted to Threadless, but was rejected due to fears that it involved licensed characters. I believe this is covered under parody. Apparently so did DBH!

My contest rules apply. See details here.

Charliechu!

I’m going to have the same contest for each shirt that makes it to judging:

Qualify
1. Sign up at DesignByHumans.com.
2. Vote for my design.
3. Comment on my design.
4. Send me an e-mail with your DBH username, your t-shirt size, and mailing address.

Ways to Win (if the shirt is printed)
1. First completed entry for each shirt wins a t-shirt.
2. Best/most creative comment for each shirt wins a t-shirt.
3. Random drawing from entries from each shirt wins a t-shirt.

Details for the contest and how to sign up are available here –> The Replacement Komics

Current shirts in the running at DBH (click for link to the voting):

Sanijan

Ruby Throated Bullet

Thanks for your help and good luck!

What does this mean to you? Should my t-shirt get printed, A FREE T-SHIRT goes to the winners of my contest-within-a-contest!

“So, Karl, what can I do to win this FREE T-SHIRT?!?!?!”

I’m glad you asked. Here are the steps to enter my contest with the goal of winning a free t-shirt with my design on it:

1. Go to DesignByHumans.com and follow this tutorial using this link –> KARL’S DESIGN <-- for steps 8, 9, and 10.

2. Send an e-mail to me (karlhabegger at yahoo dot com) with (A.)your name, (B.)the mailing address you would like your t-shirt sent to if you should win, (C.)your newly minted DesignByHumans.com username for eligibility verification and (D.) T-Shirt size.

Entries will be accepted starting NOW and continuing until DesignByHumans.com decides to print the shirt, or declines to print the shirt within 120 days.

IF THE T-SHIRT WINS THE DESIGNBYHUMANS CONTEST, PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED FOR THE FOLLOWING:

1. First Person to Complete the Entry
2. Most Amazing, Stupefying, or Creative Comment (Judged by me.)
3. Random drawing on the day of printing from all entries

Rules:

1. Only one entry per person. Please do not vote fraudulently as this will hurt my chances
2. Comment as often as you like. If you are trying to win prize number 2 and you feel you have been out-done by another contestant, jump right back in there
3. T-shirt sizes are only what is available from DesignByHumans
4. Sadly, if the design doesn’t win at DesignByHumans, I cannot award any prizes
5. Members of my household are not eligible to win prizes

Lastly, here is my completely astounding design that you certainly would want to wear all around town and possibly even in town or among other humans. It is a ruby-throated hummingbird being fired from a Colt Python. Okay. I admit that may seem strange, but if you have ever lived in Peru, Indiana this would make some sort of sense in context of people being fired from cannons.

Good Luck and may the fastest, wordsmithiest, and most random persons win.

A young pirate named Two Lipped John was in a horrible accident involving cutting toward himself.

Here is the colored version of Capt. Halfbeard. I used Noodler’s ink and watercolors in a moleskine notebook.

Isabelle made a portrait of me from the side with my hand on my cheek. She borrowed my fountain pen and used her own watercolors. She’s obviously a shameless flatterer.

Richard at http://table38.com/ has been rocking out the drawings the last few days. Here is my current drawing, sans the color it will some day be graced with.

Mr. Manheimer is working hard to blend into his new environment. He has taken to the foxtrot quite nicely, but is still uncomfortable with the fancy dress and rich diet of the late 1870’s.

When we’ve finished raising kids, perhaps we’ll buy an oat guzzler and hitch it up to this here wagon. We’ll take the show on the road. We’ll follow a horses fanny around for a few years before we forget our own names and become indigent social parasites… I think it is good to have a plan for retirement.

Dale and I both like to wear plastic buckets on our heads. It lends an otherwise missing dignity to our beings.

After overhearing salacious talk of bacon, Mr. Manheimer began construction of his balloon. After a few false starts he is now on his way to a bright future.

Original design from found photographs.

I found a couple of illustrations I did earlier this year. I’m going to post them up over the next few days in order to keep the content going while I’m working on the code. I hope you enjoy them.

The CSS is coming right along. I still have a long way to go, but I am having to relearn the basics and learn some advanced as I go. I am surprised I’ve gotten this far in Internet Programming without learning more than the few snippets of CSS I already knew.

The other thing I am dabbling in at the moment is MySQL. I’m using it to keep track of the images and their titles, etc. I’m not very savvy yet, but I’ve appropriated some code off of the PHP documentation web site to use in the meantime.

Ink on paper.

Colored pencil on paper.

Crayon on Paper.

Pencil on Paper.

Guess what I found whilst cleaning out the garage in prepration for our home going on the market…

Give up?! I know I do!

That’s right. I found a circa 2002 trial illustration of the future most lucrative children’s series since My Little Pony: The Dinosaur Riding Astronauts of the Wild West. Sorry the picture quality is uneven. It was too big for the scanner and so I had to patch it together.

From 1996 – Woodcut.

From 1996 – Woodcut.

Printmaking is fun. I wish I had a press so that I could do more monotype and woodcuts. I posted some of my old monotypes and woodcuts from my last printmaking class in 1996.

From 1996 – Four color process monotype.

From 1996 – Black and white monotype.

From 1996 – Black and white monotype.

From 1996 – Black and white monotype.

I took a scan of the blank and white version and colorized it via the Gimp.

Ink on paper.

Mixed Media done for a class my wife was teaching.

From 1996 – four color process monotype.