May 1st, 2008
I’ve decided that my life would be better with a couple hundred more dollars in it so I’m gonna do commissions for the first ten people to email me about one at lesmcclaine-A-T-gmail.com.
The commissions are $20 each, shipping included, and will be 9″x12″ on a nice acid-free bristol, blue line pencil with black ink. One character of your choice! Maybe a second character if it fits into the composition! Some background if it fits into the composition! Here is an example of the sort of thing you will receive*:
A better look at the actual piece (though the blue line doesn’t scan well):
*Gracie not included.
Edit: all full up! Thanks, all y’alls
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April 5th, 2008
We’ve got a scheduling snafu over the Drink-N-Draw! We didn’t realize that tonight was the 24-Hour Comic Event over at Cosmic Monkey. We’ve rescheduled the Drink-N-Draw for April 19th, not tonight.
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March 29th, 2008
Here’s what it says over on the brand-new OFFICIAL PORTLAND DRINK-N-DRAW SITE:
We’ve scheduled the next Portland Drink-N-Draw for Saturday, April 5th at 8:00.
We have a special activity this month:
THE DRINK AND DRAW PRE-STUMPTOWN JAM POSTER PARTY!!!!
simple rules…
1.) You arrive with a piece of paper (any size) with a drawing of yours in the center (a character or concept of your choosing, but ideally not taking up too much space).
2.) You pass the paper around and let other people draw their interpretation of your drawing / theme on the rest of the page
3.) you take home a cool poster with a lot a talented peoples art on it…
This year for those who will be allow it.. we’re going to take some digital photos at the end of the night to put the posters up on the new PDX Drink and Draw site at www.portlanddrinkndraw.com! As always, if you don’t want to participate in the poster-ing you can still just come and enjoy the wonderful combination of comic people/sketching/and booze.
Come get into the Stumptown Spirit!!!
The event will be held, as usual, at Madison’s Bar and Grill at 1109 SE Madison St, Portland OR 97210. We have a table reserved upstairs, so come on up. 8.5×11 copy paper will be provided, please bring any other supplies you will want!.
Filed under: conventions, web design, blather, Drink n' Draw by Les
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March 27th, 2008
Hey! Long time no post. I’m slowly working back up to speed, even though I still don’t have a studio since they still haven’t fixed the floors. I just did up this cover for this week’s Portland Mercury.
This is my second attempt at digital painting and I think it came out pretty good.
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March 1st, 2008
Sorry for the late reminder.
We’re having this month’s Drink ‘n Draw of the year tonight, Saturday, March 1st, at Madison’s, at 1109 SE Madison St. at 8:00. We have a table reserved upstairs.
As usual, this event is open to all (assuming you’re old enough to go to a bar!) We will provide 8.5×11 copy paper, you’ll have to bring any other art supplies you’d like to have. It can be fun to have a themed page to hand around to everyone so you’ll end up with a fun jam poster at the end of the night, so think about that.
We’re shifting to the first Saturday of the month for this year, so we’re also announcing the next Drink ‘n Draw for April 5th. Mark your calendars!
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January 31st, 2008
Once again, late notice!
We’re having the first Drink ‘n Draw of the year this Saturday, February 2nd at Madison’s, at 1109 SE Madison St. at 8:00. We’ve called ahead this time and we have a table reserved upstairs.
As usual, this event is open to all (assuming you’re old enough to go to a bar!) We will provide 8.5×11 copy paper, you’ll have to bring any other art supplies you’d like to have. It can be fun to have a themed page to hand around to everyone so you’ll end up with a fun jam poster at the end of the night, so think about that.
We’re shifting to the first Saturday of the month for this year, so we’re also announcing the second Drink ‘n Draw for March 1st. Mark your calendars!
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January 31st, 2008
I’m a-warmin’ up for Hourly Comics Day tomorrow.
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January 11th, 2008
Sorry for the lack of content lately, folks. It is because I haven’t been doing any work at all.
About a month ago, there was a big rainstorm here in the Pacific Northwest. You may remember it, it was in all the papers. It was such a bad storm that I-5 flooded for about twenty miles and nobody could go from Portland to Seattle for four days.
Anyhow, it was during that storm that somebody at the building that houses my studio decided to redo the roof. So, during that rainstorm, there were damp, unhappy men on the roof of the building, tearing off the asphalt and tarpaper and throwing it into a truck parked directly in front of my office door.
Much to everyone’s surprise, the building flooded. Those of us in my studio were incredibly lucky; the water just came down the walls and got under the floorboards, requiring new flooring and some repair work on the walls. None of my things were damaged (much to my relief; I had every single Jonny Crossbones page on the floor leaning against the wall.) In some of the other studios in the building had water pouring out of all the light fixtures, destroying art and furniture willy-nilly.
The insurance company required a bit of convincing before they’d agree to pay for repairs, and now they’re looking for a contractor, and the end result is that my studio doesn’t have a floor and probably won’t for another few weeks.
At first it didn’t look like it was going to get in my way too much. I spent about two weeks visiting my family in Massachusetts for Christmas and expected the floor to be replaced by then. This hasn’t happened. I also just moved into a house that my rollickin’ roomie Jon Siruno bought (and is magnanimously allowing me to live in in exchange for money) and, thinking that I had a studio to work in, I organized my room in such a way that there isn’t any place to put a drafting table. We do have a spare room, but until yesterday Jon’s family was visiting and sleeping in there. Now we’ve got that set up as a backup studio, I’ll be getting back to work on Monday, after not getting any drawing done for about a month.
I hope I still remember how to draw.
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December 10th, 2007
About two weeks ago my ladyfriend Crystal and I had the opportunity to go watch a couple days of shooting for the ABC Family Middleman pilot.
Les and Crystal meet the Middleman (Matt Keeslar)
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