http://trkomics.fishvan.com Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:02:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the Big Rock Candy Mountain, you never change your socks. And the golden streams of lemonade come trickling down the rocks. More illustration done with my new tablet tool. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/big-rock-candy-mountain/ My wife ordered a Wacom Bamboo tablet for my birthday. I've had my eye on a tablet for 6 or so years, but could never justify the cost. Fortunately, the price came down to something close to reasonable for a refurbished. In conjunction with that my niece and mother would ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/emo-elmo/ The genius that is Kevin Cornell has thrown down the gauntlet as it were, so here is my Thrilling Space Adventure! http://trkomics.fishvan.com/thrilling-space-adventure/ This is concept art for a project I have on the back burner. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/concept-art/ As many of you know, I really enjoy web comics. In fact, I might even be a web comic nerd. I've occasionally dabbled in comics myself, but found that my burning desire to procrastinate overwhelmed any set schedule. So I turned to komics instead. The beauty of web comics is ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/web-comic-review-wondermark/ Time is of the essence! This contest only lasts 7 days, so if you want to help me out, pretty please: 1. Join threadless.com (another t-shirt contest site) 2. Check mark "I'd buy it as a t-shirt." 3. Score the design (5 = best, 0 = worst) 4. Leave a comment on my design ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/t-shirt-drag-queen/ Yet another t-shirt design accepted by DesignByHumans.com. I'm sure by now you know the drill. Art for the People http://trkomics.fishvan.com/t-shirt-art-for-the-people/ I have another t-shirt design accepted into the contest at DesignByHumans.com. This is a remix of a drawing/painting I did in my moleskine notebook. My contest rules apply. See details here. King of Beasts http://trkomics.fishvan.com/t-shirt-king-of-beasts/ I have another t-shirt design accepted into the contest at DesignByHumans.com. 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! http://trkomics.fishvan.com/t-shirt-charlichu/ I have another t-shirt in the running over at www.designbyhumans.com. (See "Sanijan" below.) 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, ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/sanijan-t-shirt/ This is a momentous occasion here at The Replacement Komics, as the 100th post coincides with a design of mine being accepted into the DesignByHumans.com T-Shirt contest. That contest encourages Shameless Self-Promotion. If you know me very well, you know this makes me Slightly Uncomfortable. So I decided to hold ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/100th-post-contest/ Keith's dog never appreciated the work Keith went through to get his hair just right. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/50s-hairdo/ You have to keep your eye on that dung beetle. I think he's hiding cards. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/bugs-playing-poker/ For the annoying literalist in your life who has everything! http://trkomics.fishvan.com/jet-pack/ Take your time. It will come to you. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/candidate-for-2012/ "No really, even my wife thinks it is a figure of speech." http://trkomics.fishvan.com/captions/ We're all bums at heart. Some of us just need to bum a little wi-fi. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/modern-hobo/ You know there is nothing quite as fun as a kitten. Unless the kitten has a hook instead of a paw. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/ugly-kitten/ My cynicism knows no bounds. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/winning-and-losing-candidates/ Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso depicting the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. Here I have made it a happy birthday party complete with pony rides! War is awful, but birthday parties are fun. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/guernica-birthday-party/ 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. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/newest-komedian/ "Saturn Devouring His Son" by Francisco Goya is one of the most provocative images ever painted. Hopefully, my version will help you to forget his amazing artwork and think about ice cream. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/saturn-devouring-his-ice-cream/ 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." http://trkomics.fishvan.com/clouds-pig-crushes-horses-head/ 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 ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/clouds-fishing-lure-pursues-frog-lobster-love-child/ Worm victims everywhere... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/costumes-for-pets/ You know, the monster, not the Doctor. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/frank/ So, in the midst of doing all of these cloud drawings, I ran across Von Glitschka's post over on Art Backwash about living a creatively curious life. He had a creativity pack with some exercises in it. One of the exercises was one he put together at IllustrationClass.com called What ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/what-do-you-see-challenge/ 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 ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/clouds-frogzilla/ 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 ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/titanic-bearded-goose-births-semi-useful-demi-god/ The world has gone crazy. Dogs and cats... singing together! http://trkomics.fishvan.com/choir-of-animals/ 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 ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/clouds-vulture-holding-fish/ 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. ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/clouds-singing-man-and-laughing-sphinx/ 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 ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/532/ 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 ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/clouds-sea-horse-sea-cow-and-sea-your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine/ 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. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/clouds-squid-vs-whale-in-the-fight-of-the-century/ 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 ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/clouds-overly-groomed-poodle-observing-hedgehog/ 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 ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/clouds-bunny-man-with-occasional-music/ Modeled after a People's Republic of China poster. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/propaganda/ Get it? Robot --- Row Bot? Great pun, right? I hate it when my jokes fall flat. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/row-bot/ Ve're goingk on a treep in our faworite rocket sheep! http://trkomics.fishvan.com/exotic-pets/ Private Wendy is ready for the trenches. Ronald McDonald doesn't stand a chance, although he does have the largest Fast Food Posse. Only Jack in the Box may stand in the way of Wendy as most of her weapons involve blunt force trauma to the head. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/fast-food-wars/ Nothing bothers me so much as when I believe I have been incredibly clever and no one else notices. In that theme, please enjoy my joke with me: Rube Goldberg machine = Rude Gold Bird machine. See, I'm hilarious. No, really! http://trkomics.fishvan.com/rube-goldberg-machine/ Tonight I ate the home-cured gravlax that I made following the recipe I found at I Eat You. It was delicious. Unbelievably good. If I don't die of food poisoning, I will call it a success. This being my first foray into the world of self-prepared-uncooked fish, (...okay, that isn't quite ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/avenge-my-death/ Okay. So cleaning up vomit isn't very exciting, but if you shout "THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR... DAD!" right before you do it, then it adds a little luster. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/mundane-superheroes/ This is my Antithesis Art entry for "Redesign a Peanuts Character". http://trkomics.fishvan.com/redesign-a-peanuts-character/ Anthropomorphic Kitchen Appliances... I wish I could claim that mouthful, but it was Richard's idea. This is my completed version of my earlier sketch post for my Antithesis Art entry. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/anthropomorphic-kitchen-appliances/ I believe the best prose, poetry, and art all accomplish the same thing: They create a sense of yearning. It may be yearning for a particular feeling or time or place, or it may be that the work makes you wish you were a better person in some way. I ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/the-moon-is-drowning-while-i-sleep/ Good ol' Santa is a good ol' boy. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/christmas-in-texas/ It has been too long without a post on The Replacement Komics. I'm sorry to say that I don't have anything new to post, so I am going to post old Antithesis Art entries twice a week (Monday and Friday) for the next couple of months hoping that I'll get ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/aging-rock-star/ I haven't posted in a blue or green or burnt umber moon. In August we were blessed with our third child, and she is getting all of my spare time. I'll be back when she starts having a regular bed time. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/excuses/ A young pirate named Two Lipped John was in a horrible accident involving cutting toward himself. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/peg-lipped-john/ Here is the colored version of Capt. Halfbeard. I used Noodler's ink and watercolors in a moleskine notebook. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/capt-halfbeard-of-kent/ 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. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/portrait-of-the-artist/ 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. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/captain-half-beard/ Before the baby was born, I decided to do a bunch of art so that my site would not grow stale while I was in No Sleep Til Brooklyn mode. Unfortunately, I used up all of that work before the blessed event. So, here is more artwork done for www.AntithesisArt.com ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/little-blue-dune-buggy/ Have you ever had that feeling that perhaps your life is a big cosmic joke? No? ...well, neither have I. I was just kidding. Anyway, this drawing was originally done for the www.antithesisart.com project Gone Fishin. I hope you enjoy it. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/bait/ 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. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/time-is-out-of-joint/ Also too disturbing. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/charlie-no-three/ A while back I did some Charlie Brown drawings for Antithesis Art. This one was a little too disturbing and didn't make the cut. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/charlie-revisited/ 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 ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/a-wagon-home/ Dale and I both like to wear plastic buckets on our heads. It lends an otherwise missing dignity to our beings. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/dale/ 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. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/the-escape/ I've been working on the Kaufman Christian School t-shirt for next year. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/kcs-t-shirt-design/ Pencil on paper. Used various sources found on the internet. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/a-comic-for-redsavina/ I took one of the sketches I did for Antithesis Art and reworked it into a t-shirt idea. There is a site called "Threadless" that takes artwork submitted by the community and lets members vote on it. If it gets enough votes, they pay you for it and print it. ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/charliechu/ Original design from found photographs. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/ace-of-spades/ Sketch done for an Antithesis Art entry. The finished work was mostly done in GIMP. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/caffinated-devil/ I've been busy elsewhere. I'm working with my friend Richard to start a new website called Antithesis Art. We hope it will be a launching point to build a community of artists locally in East Texas. Check it out when you get a chance. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/cat-vs-pig/ 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. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/art-fist-power-to-the-people/ 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 ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/fish-flourish/ Well that did not take as long as I expected. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/keep-on-pluckin/ 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 ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/allusions-of-grandeur-amish-empire/ Ink on paper. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/chickapotamus-in-black-and-white/ Colored pencil on paper. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/chickapotamus-in-color/ Crayon on Paper. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/ketchup-and-mustard/ Pencil on Paper. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/ketchup/ 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. ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/dinosaur-riding-astronauts-of-the-wild-west/ Pen and ink on paper. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/i-want-to-ride-my-bicycle-page-2/ Well, we are teaching our son to ride his bike. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/i-want-to-ride-my-bicycle-page-1/ From 1996 - Woodcut. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/scull-christ-angel-death/ From 1996 - Woodcut. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/trilobyte/ 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. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/look-at-what-you-have-done/ From 1996 - Four color process monotype. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/birdhouse/ From 1996 - Black and white monotype. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/seed-of-rebellion/ From 1996 - Black and white monotype. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/gives-birth-to-sin/ From 1996 - Black and white monotype. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/sin-brings-death/ Pen and Ink on Paper. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/california-vs-alaska/ Chalk on tinted masonite. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/isabelle-in-black-and-white/ Chalk on tinted masonite. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/zeke-in-black-and-white/ Chalk on tinted masonite. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/dawn-in-black-and-white/ Oil paint on masonite. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/dawn-in-color/ I took a scan of the blank and white version and colorized it via the Gimp. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/moon-over-my-hammy-in-color/ Ink on paper. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/moon-over-my-hammy-in-black-and-white/ The dramatic conclusion. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/the-american-dream-page-3/ A continuation. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/the-american-dream-page-2/ The American Dream is stealing mine. Find out how!! http://trkomics.fishvan.com/the-american-dream-page-1/ Mixed Media done for a class my wife was teaching. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/the-kids-are-normal/ I need to get a fountain pen. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/enkimdu-comic-page-1/ I've been looking at the blog of a guy from my church named Rich. It is called Table 38. Someone from our church showed it to my wife, and then she showed it to me. Rich is in the same place in life that I am. He's got kids, a ... http://trkomics.fishvan.com/enkimdu-comic-cover/ Pen and ink on notecard. Edited in the GIMP. http://trkomics.fishvan.com/enkimdu/