Visit the rest of the Pearce Family Holiday Drawings here, if that’s something you wanna do.
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Pearce Family Halloween 2018
Posted in halloween, Uncategorized with tags halloween, pearce family holiday drawings, scooby doo on October 1, 2018 by Christopher PearcePearce Family Holiday Drawing 2016!
Posted in illustration with tags christmas, color, dr seuss, ellen, elliot, henry, joan, pearce family holiday drawings, the grinch, the grinch who stole christmas on December 1, 2016 by Christopher Pearce
By now you probably know the drill – every Christmas, I draw our family into a holiday themed picture which then gets used as the X-Mas card we send out to our friends and neighbors. Truth be told, I already had a go at The Grinch six years ago but I was never happy with how that one turned out (too much yellow!) and the previous grinchy doodle was done BEFORE we started sending these out as holiday greetings so… yeah, natural do-over.
Feel free to click here and peruse that last 7 years of holiday drawings.
Pearce Family Holiday Drawings: Halloween 2016
Posted in Uncategorized with tags chewie, color, ellen, elliot, halloween, henry, joan, pearce family holiday drawings, salem's lot, stephen king on October 1, 2016 by Christopher Pearce
Every year, I do a Halloween drawing of my family on social media. This year, I took a page from one of my favorite Stephen King books (‘Salem’s Lot is definitely in my Top Three). I was a little dubious about this being THE Halloween drawing, since it doesn’t directly connect to the season, but whatever!
You can see the rest of the holiday drawings over the year here.
Pearce Family Holiday Drawings: Christmas 2015
Posted in illustration with tags chewie, color, ellen, elliot, henry, joan, pearce family holiday drawings, rankin bass, rudolph the red nosed reindeer on November 30, 2015 by Christopher Pearce
If you’ve been following my comics here for long enough, you know the drill – every December, I draw my family’s Christmas card featuring all of us in some kind of seasonally appropriate homage. This year I decided to have a go at Rankin/Bass’ seemingly immortal Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. As a kid, this one was always my favorite.
Pearce Family Holiday Drawings: Halloween 2015
Posted in illustration with tags color, ellen, elliot, frankenstein, frankenstein's monster, halloween, henry, joan, pearce family holiday drawings, the bride of frankenstein on October 1, 2015 by Christopher Pearce
Every year, I draw our family in a Halloween themed drawing. This is 2015′s effort. I had already done Ellen and I as Frankenstein’s Monster and The Bride a few years’ back but I wanted another whack at it with the kids in tow.
Here are some past Halloween (and Christmas!) drawings of the Pearce family.
Pearce Family Holiday Drawings: Christmas 2014
Posted in illustration with tags christmas, color, ellen, elliot, henry, illustration, joan, pearce family holiday drawings on December 1, 2014 by Christopher Pearce
For the past few years, I’ve been drawing our family’s Christmas cards. It’s been a fun way to contribute to the holiday. Last year we did a standard Santa Claus scene featuring a pregnant Ellen. This year Joan makes her debut as the Sugar Plum Fair in our production of The Nutcracker.
Pearce Family Holiday Drawings: Halloween 2014
Posted in illustration with tags color, ellen, elliot, halloween, henry, joan, pearce family holiday drawings, zombies on October 1, 2014 by Christopher Pearce
Longtime readers of my comic may remember that every Halloween I draw a seasonally themed cartoon of my family for posting on social media.
New readers… that sentence above is a true statement.
You can check out previous years’ Halloween (and Christmas!) doodles here.
Pearce Family Holiday Drawings: Christmas 2013
Posted in illustration with tags color, ellen, elliot, henry, pearce family holiday drawings on December 1, 2013 by Christopher Pearce
For the past few years, I’ve been drawing our family’s Christmas cards. It’s been a fun way to contribute to the holiday. Last year’s card was a riff on A Charlie Brown Christmas and we did A Christmas Story in 2011. This year, we went for a somewhat more traditional approach.
I hired Madeleine Witt to color this year’s comic and man, she outdid herself. You should all definitely go over and check out her blog; it’s as awesome as this GIF she made of the drawing!
Pearce Family Holiday Drawings: Halloween 2013
Posted in illustration with tags color, ellen, elliot, henry, pearce family holiday drawings, the addams family on October 7, 2013 by Christopher Pearce
Every year, as is my tradition, I draw a Halloween themed picture of my family to use as my catch-all picture on social networking sites. This year, I had a go at The Addams Family. I’ve become quite a fan of Charles Addams’ macabre one-panel contributions to The New Yorker but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that my first exposure to the Addams’ clan was the big-budget early 1990’s film staring Raul Julia and Angelica Huston.
I have a second version of this drawing I colored based on the Hanna Barbara cartoon which had a more vibrant palate than the black and white strips. I’ve got that one behind the cut but I much prefer my black and white pass at this sketch.
pearce “family” holiday drawings: festivus 2012
Posted in illustration with tags a charlie brown christmas, festivus, pearce family holiday drawings, seinfeld on December 5, 2012 by Christopher Pearce
My friend Joe and his wife Jody have a party every December themed toward the classic Seinfeld episode “The Strike” or more specifically, Frank Costanza’s made-up holiday Festivus. I volunteered my services in creating the unofficial invitation this year and I decided to keep in step with our Christmas card I had just recently drawn.
As it stands, I’m afraid this one came out quite a bit better! I mimicked the colors from the stage at the end of A Charlie Brown Christmas and I think the softer pink and purple tones make the entire illustration more appealing.
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