Pete Draws Stuff

Jacob keeps a regular journal in webcomic form over at jacobmercy.com. Last Friday he experienced an unusual lapse in his memory and, since I was present during the missing span of time, he asked me to fill in as the temporary chronicler of his exploits.

I spent my weekend partying at some friends’ beach house. Spent all of Saturday evening doing these, and also a 9-panel comic recounting Friday evening which I’m still planning to color.

My sketchbook has been busy lately, but rather secret since I’m doing a bunch of studies for VS Comics.

Here’s what happens to your body after years of constantly abusing performance-enhancing vegetables:

Just got back from Drink & Draw, where in a few weeks we’ll be drawing and pressing our own buttons! I roughed out a few ideas which I plan to clean up and mass-produce.

So hey, if you’re in Portland join our mailing list and come to a drink & draw night! drinkdraw.com!

I’ve been playing Dungeons and Dragons with some very cool and accommodating guys that I know through work. They let me draw these rather-unflattering caricatures, and even posed in imitation of my weak likenesses so the drawings would look better than they really are. Thanks, guys!

Meanwhile I also did a caricature of a cousin of mine — my mom’s drawing her wedding invitation and needs some help with the previsualization. Mom: please apply your own judgment; the eyebrows are too high, which makes her look dumb, and there are other issues as well.

Also here’s a business card that I drew a long time ago and never posted. It’s the last one that I haven’t given away (I’m holding it for Clifton) and I’d have drawn more already except that I ran out of blanks and haven’t had a minute to do more cutting. Soon!

I’m going to be in an art show at Floating World Comics, for the benefit of the hemophilia department at OHSU. It’s called Full of Pryde, and a lot of people much more talented than myself are making fan art about the X-Men character Kitty Pryde.

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More info:

Event listing on Floating World’s site

Blog where early submissions are posted in advance of the show

How I first found out that the show was going to happen

At a Drink & Draw last Sunday I met the recently re-crowned fastest caricaturist in the world — Mr. Steve Dorris. To my great honor he seemed to be a fan of my work, and paid me real money to draw a quick sketch of a superhero pooping — which he added to his sizeable collection thereof. He even threw in a free caricature of ME pooping, which is bizarrely accurate to my actual pooping technique. See for yourself.

Anyway, he’s amazing, and when he turned out last night at the Drink & Draw that I organize, I was inspired to try my hand at capturing some of the more distinctive faces at our table (and at the mic, once the Gypsy’s karaoke crowd night started winding up.) Here’s what I’ve got so far — I’m excited to get better.

I spent the whole weekend at Stumptown Comics Fest, just soaking up the scene and reinforcing relationships. Lots of cool people this year with lots of cool stuff, and although I didn’t register in time to get a table I actually got to bring along two comics — the 24-hour Dracula comic which you can read here in my previous post, and also a preview version of the comic I’m working on with Jacob Mercy and Steve Wilber. This is basically just a snapshot of our current draft, and all three stories will change significantly before we go to press. And of course, we expect the finished comic to be somewhere between double and triple the length.

The project has its own website, so rather than clutter up my blog homepage even more I’ll take this opportunity to link you there!

http://www.versuscomics.com