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.

We picked up Lucy at the Athen’s shelter yesterday. She is marked like a miniature pinscher, but smaller like a chihuahua. She is a hoot.

Cloud series, number 11.

Here is pig, hiding behind a condo. Pig sees horse floating by. Pig pinches his fingers together muttering “I crush your head, horse.”

Cloud series, part 10. With the “Cloud 9″ pun safely behind us, it is time for a lighter image.

What appears to be a fanciful fishing lure has somehow come to life and is pursuing a frog-lobster-love-child wearing an OSHA approved flotation device. Why, you ask? It is one of life’s great mysteries.

Cloud series, part 9. I’m so glad that I’ve gotten this far in the series. I guess you could say that I’m, uh, on … um, cloud nine. Okay, moving right along!

It is common knowledge that when Frogzilla finally awakens and comes waltzing across the Texas countryside, his first target is going to be a La Quinta.

Cloud series, number 8.

I confess that I find this image to be both beautiful and terrifying. Here we see a familiar scene from the Herringian myth-cycle. Lupatti, the demi-god of good listening being birthed from the nose of the starry-eyed Rambleshab. Rambleshab, of course, is the titanic bearded goose upon whom rests the foundation of the sky and sea. At the end of the world, Rambleshabs gastronomic collapse will cause the sea and the sky to exchange places leaving only flying fish unaffected. Until then, he floats on the gentle breezes and births semi-useful demi-gods now and then. Also according to Herringian mythology, Lupatti is a bit of a twit.

Clouds. Part seven.

As soon as I saw the vulture and fish I stopped. I probably could have worked a gorilla face or cookie monster into the background, but I liked the simplicity and power of the drawing as is. This could be the national symbol of The Republic of Herringia. I’m quite surprised it isn’t.

Clouds. Part six.

A happier image today. A man sings a song. We’re going to go with the idea that it is a happy song that he enjoys singing. In the far distance, a sphinx is thinking about the meal it will cook and laughing, presumably at the idea of parsnips. There aren’t any vegetables as funny as parsnips.

Okay. Today is part five of the Cloud series. If you don’t know what is going on, go back to my earlier posts and read up. I’m sick of carrying you people.

By now I’m realizing that this exercise is probably more of a window into my mind than is healthy for me or you. However, I’ve already started and cannot quit now. So there’s a person. Is it a man, a woman? Hard to tell, we’re getting mixed signals. The person deffinitely seems to be consuming a hot beverage which for our purposes will be coffee. Meanwhile a great worm is devouring this person. A minor worm perches on the person’s arm, neither devouring the person nor preventing their ingestion. I think the tragedy of this story is in the minor worm’s lack of action. Either eat the guy/gal or save them you morally tepid worm!

Wow. We are already to part four of the Cloud series. [Wherein I photograph clouds, print them out, and draw what I see in them, blah, blah...]

In this amazing look into Karl’s damaged psyche, we see a sea horse floating above the rooftops. Contextually, we have to assume the cow is therefore a sea cow, but what is this other sea creature? A large nosed sea bandicoot? A sea monkey whose owner put the bowl too close to the microwave causing radiation to give him Gamma Ray Powers? The mind boggles.

Part three of a series of cloud drawings.

In this fine drawing, I’ve represented a squid who tries to prevent a whale from catching a baseball. Meanwhile, Jim runs toward them with his balloon. This probably means something.

This is my second in a series of cloud drawings. I’ve printed out photos of clouds taken with my cell phone and then drew right on top of the clouds.

In this picture you will see that some poodle’s grooming can get out of hand. Especially poodles who have been trained to watch the hedgehog. Meanwhile a pig glances over from his mud hole and a marmoset trembles in abject fear of the poodle. Look. If you don’t like the way I’m calling it, write your own synopsis.

I was riding in the van the other day looking out the window at huge billowy clouds. I saw all kinds of great figures and whatnot in them. Then it hit me: I should be taking pictures of these clouds, printing them out, and drawing the whatnot! If only I had remembered that my phone is also a camera. Instead it hit me the next day when the clouds weren’t quite as awesome. I still took some photos and WOW is my phone’s camera awful. It didn’t matter though.

Last night I printed them out and started drawing. Here is the first one. I’ll be posting the rest of the results over the next few days.

In this one, a weird bunny-man in star pajamas and bunny slippers is being leaped over by a lion-eagle-horse while Albert Einstein looks up from his cooking to watch.

Pencil on paper. Used various sources found on the internet.

Well that did not take as long as I expected.

Announcement: I am changing hosts and rewriting the site in PHP. After I rewrite the site in PHP, I will rewrite the site in CSS. Then maybe I will offer a couple of different skins for the site. All of this is going to count as artwork in my head so I can justify not sketching while I do it.

Also, during this whole process artwork is going to disappear slowly until the new site is rewritten in PHP. I will put a link here when done. Thanks for your patience!

Pen and ink on paper.

Well, we are teaching our son to ride his bike.

Pen and Ink on Paper.

The dramatic conclusion.

A continuation.

The American Dream is stealing mine. Find out how!!

Pen and ink on notecard. Edited in the GIMP.

Pen and ink on notecard. Edited in the GIMP.

Pen and ink on notecard. Edited in the GIMP.

Pen and ink on notecard. Edited in the GIMP.

Pen and ink on notecard. Edited in the GIMP.

Pen and ink on notecard. Edited in the GIMP.

Pen and ink on notecard. Edited in the GIMP.

Pen and ink on notecard. Edited in the GIMP.

Pen and ink on notecard. Edited in the GIMP.