Photoshop technique
I’m working on a photoshop technique where I add textures to flatted line drawings.
How to NOT kill yourself.
My friend Alice wrote an e-book about ways for the suicidal to avoid suicide. I am a strong advocate of living as I believe death is the ultimate perversion of our God given purpose on earth. Alice allowed me to illustrate and format the book. Here are a few of the illustrations. If you wish [...]
The Theory of Rudy
During college, I was a printmaking major. I spent a lot of time doing woodcuts, monotypes, and etching. I took one semester of Lithography. Even though I loved lithography, I didn’t pursue it because of how impractical it was. The best lithographs were produced on huge slabs of limestone. This wasn’t just any limestone, either. [...]
Room redo for Zeke’s Birthday
My son turned 11 years old this morning. He is an awesome guy. Dawn asked him if he would like for us to redo his room this year as part of his birthday and he said yes. So, we did. My project was a mural. We really like the Japanese woodcut “The Great Wave off [...]
Painting: A quick oil sketch
There is nothing quite like painting in oils. The smell of the oil and turpentine permeates your brain. The buttery paint moves endlessly under your brush.
Illustration Design Process: Uncommon Childhood
In this article I’m going to explore the process of working with a client on an illustration. Here is the illustration used in the final piece.
Natural Enemies
This illustration was done for the Antithesis Art challenge of “Natural Enemies”. Yesterday I spent some time chasing our Siberian Husky around the yard trying to catch her so that I could take the neighbor’s dying chicken out of her mouth.
T-shirt: Drag Queen
This t-shirt design was done for a contest at Threadless. If you are not familiar with Threadless, it is a site that takes community generated t-shirt designs and puts them through contests.
T-Shirt: Art for the People
This t-shirt was designed for a contest at DesignByHumans.com. I reused an illustration I made earlier of a fist raised with brushes clenched inside. I added the star and gave the image a distressed look. DesignByHumans did not print it, but I plan on doing so eventually.
T-Shirt: King of Beasts
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. I really like the drawing, but this would be a difficult one to print. There are too many colors. In order to make it print ready it would take some simplification and a bit half-toning I’m afraid.
T-Shirt: Charlichu!
I have another t-shirt design accepted into the contest at DesignByHumans.com. This design was originally submitted to Threadless a year or so ago, but was rejected due to fears that it involved licensed characters. I believe this is covered under parody. Apparently so did DBH!
T-Shirt: Sanijan
I have another t-shirt in the running over at www.designbyhumans.com. (See “Sanijan” below.) This is a rehash of the Sanijan drawing I did back in 2007. A nice ukulele is lugging a toy narwhal around.
T-shirt: Ruby Throated Bullet
This is a momentous occasion for 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 a promotional contest so I can pretend your support is motivated by greed instead of love and admiration.
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!
Jet Pack
Have you been pondering what to get for the annoying literalist in your life who has everything? Well, PONDER NO MORE my friend. Ponder no more.
Make a Sad Painting Happy- Guernica Birthday Party
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!
Costumes for Pets
Every other day of the year, Goldie just blows bubbles. But on October 31st, he goes a little crazy!
Titanic Bearded Goose Births Semi-Useful Demi-God
Cloud series, number 7.
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.
Propaganda
Propaganda Poster by Karl Habegger. They ended up going with my second design instead. This one was modeled after a People’s Republic of China poster.
Mundane Superheroes
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.
The Moon is Drowning While I Sleep
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 feel that way when I read Charles de Lint. Charles de Lint is an author who specializes in works that blur the realm of fairy tales and reality. I’ve only read a few of his short stories, but I’m enamored with his abilities.
This artwork doesn’t exactly illustrate Charles’ short story “The Moon is Drowning While I Sleep”, but it echoes the feeling I got while reading it some years ago. This painting was done for Country Bible Church’s remodel of an existing room. They are going for a coffee house feel and asked a few of the artist members of the church to create paintings for the room.
Aging Rock Star
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 a chance to create some new stuff in the meantime.
Peg Lipped John
A young pirate named Two Lipped John was in a horrible accident involving cutting toward himself.
Capt. Halfbeard of Kent
Here is the colored version of Capt. Halfbeard. I used Noodler’s ink and watercolors in a moleskine notebook.
Bait
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.
Time is out of joint
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.
A wagon home
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
Dale and I both like to wear plastic buckets on our heads. It lends an otherwise missing dignity to our beings.
The Escape
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.
KCS T-Shirt Design
I’ve been working on the Kaufman Christian School t-shirt for next year. They eventually printed it on burnt orange. It looks great!
Ace of Spades
This Ace of Spades is an original design created from photographs found around the internet.
Cat vs. Pig
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.
Art Fist – Power to the People
I found a couple of illustrations I did earlier this year.
Fish Flourish
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.
Allusions of Grandeur – Amish Empire
nnouncement: 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!
Look at what you have done
Printmaking is fun. I wish I had a press so that I could do more monotype and woodcuts.
California vs. Alaska
Pen and Ink on Paper. California VS. Alaska is a comic about the benefits of California.
Dawn in Black and White
This portrait was done with chalk on tinted masonite using a photographic reference.
Moon over My Hammy in color
I took a scan of the blank and white version and colorized it via the Gimp.
Bigkahoona
Mystery surrounds Bigkahoona. He is like an anigma wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a big old gal. Pen and ink on notecard. Edited in the GIMP.
Swimdad
Swimdad is a sock puppet. And an arm. This illustration was done in pen and ink on notecard and then edited in the GIMP.