I draw a picture of myself on my classroom’s chalkboard everyday. I collect those pictures as camera phone photos and post them on Sundays. See the rest here.
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Chalkboard drawings: The “Hogwarts” edition
Posted in chalkboard drawings with tags chalkboard drawings, dumbledore, hagrid, harry potter, jk rowling, lord voldemort, mad eye moody on March 29, 2015 by Christopher PearceChalkboard Drawings: The “Battle of Hogwarts” edition
Posted in chalkboard drawings with tags chalkboard drawings, dobby the house elf, hagrid, harry potter, he who must not be named, jk rowling, mad eye moody, voldemort on May 5, 2014 by Christopher PearceI draw a picture of myself on my classroom’s chalkboard everyday. I collect those pictures as camera phone photos and post them on Sundays. See the rest here.
In honor of The Battle of Hogwarts, this was Harry Potter week on the chalkboard. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of Monday’s drawing… but I bet you can guess who it was.
Chalkboard Drawings: The “boy wizard” edition
Posted in chalkboard drawings with tags chalkboard drawings, dobby the house elf, hagrid, harry potter, lord voldemort on April 7, 2013 by Christopher Pearceodds and ends: my halloween decorations
Posted in odds and ends with tags halloween, harry potter, lego, minimates, odds and ends, the nightmare before christmas, universal monsters on November 1, 2012 by Christopher PearceLast year, I showed off all my Christmas toys and decorations… so this year, I thought I’d do the same with my Halloween stuff!
I love the Universal Studios Monsters and this is my shelf dedicated to them. The three busts came with a special edition of Universal’s Legacy Collection of Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and The Wolfman. They’re absolutely gorgeous and while two of these go into storage the other 11 months of the year, ol’ Frankie stays out year-round.
I’ve been keeping up with the Universal Monsters Minimates for the last few years, more ore less. I buy the heavies, as you can see here… but it’s an impressive collection Art Asylum has put together. The only biggie I’m missing from years’ past is The Bride of Frankenstein and of course, this year’s offerings: The Mummy and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
I’ve gotten a couple of good deals on LEGOs in the past few months, the best being this huge version of Hogwarts! Although it’s not precisely “Halloween” I still think it’s a nice fit as a decoration. I decided to throw the Ghostbusters and Doctor Who in here because… why not?
When I was in college, my girlfriend and I collected these Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror Happy Meal toys. They’re surprisingly durable; although they’re almost 10 years old now, most of the light up features in these bad boys still work! I’m always meaning to add to this collection; I’d like some more of the Simpsons clan… but I guess that’s something to think about for next year.
I could use a couple more Nightmare Before Christmas toys in this display, although the ones I have, I love. Even the Jack Skellington is a favorite, even though his legs constantly separate from his hips. The Mer-woman and Igor I picked up last year for $4 bucks apiece online.
Windup toys are a small collection I have that have snuck up on me. I bought one for myself when I was living in Brooklyn. Before I knew it, I had more than two dozen. They’d end up in my Christmas stocking, or as a gift from a student. My favorites of these are the Halloween/monster windups my mother ends up finding and sending to us every year.
Elliot and Henry LOVE these, so they’re on a lower shelf. They can play with them whenever they feels like it.
chalkboard photo posts: randomness
Posted in chalkboard drawings with tags chalkboard drawings, harry potter, james bond on October 2, 2011 by Christopher PearceThe big plan for the chalkboard drawings this year was to do theme weeks. This lasted until this past week, when I just did whatever. I got close to a theme at sone point, but it just didn’t happen.
I blame gettin’ sick on Friday.
chalkboard post 2010 – #10
Posted in chalkboard drawings with tags chalk, chalkboard drawings, chalkboard photos, harry potter on November 14, 2010 by Christopher PearceA bit of a slipshod week for chalkboard drawings- a friend of our family died during this week and I ended up missing a few days of school. I haven’t decided if I’m going to include that in the comic, but there it is.
I probably should have waited for this upcoming week to do Harry Potter, seeing as Deathly Hallows hits theaters this coming Friday. Ah well.
2010-2011 school year: day thirty
Posted in comics with tags bella and edward, dc comics, dracula, harry potter, neil gaiman, teacher comics, the sandman, twilight, vampire on November 9, 2010 by Christopher PearceI really, really, really enjoyed drawing today’s comic. Fact.
ALSO A FACT: Newbery Award winning author Neil Gaiman tweeted about one of my DonorsChoose projects last night, causing it to be INSTANTLY funded!
I am ridiculously excited; I’ve been a fan of Neil’s since I was reading The Sandman in high school and for him to take a moment out of his day to give my classroom a hand is amazing. Thank you so much Mr. Gaiman!
Ironically, I have a comic coming up on Thursday where one of my students extolls the greatness that is Gaiman’s American Gods… so it’s weird how that worked out!
sketchbook sketchbook sketchbook
Posted in sketchbook with tags harry potter, sketchbook on June 28, 2010 by Christopher PearceAs someone who enjoys drawing as a hobby but isn’t a professional who depends on my scribbles for sustenance, there are worse problems to have than the one I’m having right now. I’ve been drawing journal comics in one form or another for the past seven years and I’ve never hit a wall the way I have this past week.
I only have TWO comics left to draw to close out the 2009/2010 school year, man! Two more comics, and I just CAN’T. Get ’em done!
…so lemme say this: I will get them done. I will get them done this week. I promise. In the meantime, here’s a couple of sketchbook drawings, done when I was still considering including other teachers in the strip.
I also found this Harry Potter drawing I really liked. I don’t get to do a lot of shading in the daily strip, so occasionally it’s fun to sketch something like this. If memory serves, I was using some kind of weird Japanese pen on this drawing.
Alright. Tomorrow night! Comic!
odds and ends
Posted in commentary with tags harry potter, harry potter and the deathly hallows, odds and ends, the walking dead on November 26, 2010 by Christopher PearceHappy Black Friday, if you care about that sort of thing! In general, I don’t. One of the luxuries of being poor is that you don’t have to worry about camping out at 3 AM to spend money you don’t have on things you don’t need. I will admit that in recent years, I have ventured out on the day after Thanksgiving, but entirely motivated by having small children who wake up at the crack of dawn regardless of what day of the month it is.
Befitting my financial stature, Elliot and I usually go and wait outside Half Price Books on Black Friday. We have a HPB within five minutes of our house so getting there is no hardship. Elliot’s an early riser, so there’s no problem there. Half Price Books Black Friday sale isn’t a crazy doorbuster (20% off and a $5 dollar gift card to the first 100 shoppers) but you can shop secure in the comfort that people who wake up early to go to a used bookstore aren’t usually the type of folks who will trample you to death over a DVD player or riot over a GPS.
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Ellen and I have been enjoying AMC’s The Walking Dead in the past few weeks. If you know my wife, you know how remarkable that statement is. I’m a fan of a good zombie apocalypse, but they are not Ellen’s cuppa. When we started dating, I made her watch Dawn of the Dead (the Romero version, duh!), and she submitted to it with style and aplomb, despite her tastes running more toward Merchant Ivory productions. The Walking Dead has been fun for the both of us.
I’m a fan of the comic on which the show is based and have been reading it since 2003, I think. I have a copy of the first trade in my classroom’s lending library (on the restricted shelf, naturally) and it’s easily one of the most popular graphic novel collections I own. I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: If someone can figure out how to write a YOUNG ADULT zombie book, they’d be millionaires. Kids love the inherent creepiness of the genre. I think the bloody trappings may preclude acceptance as a part of the YA ouevere, but I swear man… if you can run with it, it’s money on the table.
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Believe it or not, I may get to go to the movies this weekend! When you have two young children in your care, organizing a trip to the movies is something akin to planning a military operation… but it seems as if we have a babysitter lined up and the wife and I (and some other friends) will be going to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 sometime this weekend.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the HP movie series in the past few weeks. I’m a fan of the books and the movies and I’m looking forward to seeing the series out in grand style. For Potter-philes more hardcore than myself, they must be looking at these two movies as one of the last great gasps of Harry Potter fandom, in a global sense. No more waiting in lines at midnight to get some sort of Harry Potter fix, the story’s been told in print and on film.
Of course, there will be more Harry Potter. At some point, Hollywood is going to realize that there’s still gold in them thar hills and go about “remaking” and “reimagining” Hogwarts for new generations, no matter your opinion of how good these flicks are. I also have every faith that author J.K. Rowling will at some point return to her best-loved creations; she’s alluded to it enough times with reporters (and Oprah, a few months ago). For the time being however, Deathly Hallows closes the door on the whole world and I’m excited to get to see it on the big screen.
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For those of you who have been waiting, I’m going to post Part Four of my “It Gets Better” comic on Monday. Being a holiday weekend, I thought it was better to post the comic on a day when people are near their computers than over the weekend when most are either (a) passed out from overeating, (b)watching football, or (c) shopping. It’s coming though.
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