Portrait: Comedian Eugene Mirman

A new famous-person portrait has been added to the illustration section of Pawluh.com. The super hilarious Eugene Mirman, founder of the annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival and star of the animated series Bob’s Burgers.

I tried to capture his figure-8 head. And his eyes. Those eyes. It’s not a great likeness but it sure was fun to draw. Click it to biggerify. Next time he’s in town, get tickets and see for yourself.

EugeneMirman.com

Medium – Marker on a sturdy white Strathmore Bristol Vellum paper; lightly cleaned up in Adobe Photoshop; converted to vector format in Adobe Illustrator and grays added.

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Eugene Mirman, comedian & such

Best Work-Related Compliment Ever Received (So Far)

Jan Pienkowski is being shown around the office. (Jan creates amazing pop-up books that are best sellers.) He sees a lifesize wire and rubberband sculpture on my desk and says, “I like that. Is at a cat? Did you make that?” To which I reply, get this, “Yes. You’re the first person to know what it is!” He says, “Of course it’s a cat. It has”—and here we say it at the exact same time—“a rubber band for a spine.”

Paula Frederick, PLFrederick.com