Morning Paper

Only one again as I needed another nap, Monday mornings are hard! I bought a new sketchbook today too, so there should be some good old fashioned pen and paper work to come.

OMG!

Only one this morning as I was asleep for most of the journey. I was awoken by this girl who was trying to sound like Stacy Solomon.

The importance of warming up.

This was my first effort this morning of a guy sitting at the opposite table on the train, which has too realistic proportions and not what I was aiming for. Still, just warming up.

My second was better and looser as I spied a long face through the gap in the seats.
Then I saw this guy pass by my window as he left the train at Clapham Junction! He had such a squished up face and I had to try and get it down from my one quick glance, but I think it's much more successful for it.

Friday Morning Commuters

1st Sept '11

Faces on the train in the morning,

and Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' which Em and I were watching on the train home. And very good it is too.

Weds 31st

Did these today on the train to and from work. I figured out that if I just take a quick glance of someone and try and draw mostly from memory I don't get bogged down in details. I do obviously look up during the drawing but I try and limit this at the beginning.

I spotted this lady early on, she wasn't quite as old as she appears here.
Then this woman sat opposite me, so I quickly captured what I could without arousing suspicion. Em always tells me I make to much of a head motion when I'm observing so I'm trying to remember to only move my eyes.

These were done on the way home whilst watching the remake of 'Of Mice and Men', which was predictable to say the least.

Sketchyphone

A couple more. I should've pushed the angle of the head more on the bottom one to capture the tension of the neck, next time will be better!

Doodle

A bit of iPhone doodling done whilst watching the film Michael Clayton, which was pretty dull.

Workin' 9-5

I see this guy quite often on the commute, I notice him because he brings a massive 17" laptop to work on!

Friday morning journey

The colours are a bit washed out and yellow on transfer from my iPhone, but hopefully it's just the monitor I'm using.

This morning on the train, again.

I'm trying to caricature my drawings a bit to push them away from a straight representation of reality, her face wasn't quite as long and narrow as in the drawing for example. Still need to loosen up a lot though and push things further. I didn't get the angle of the head correct either, but I'll keep trying!

Train to work

Outside the Gielgud...

... there was a lady doing a piece to camera.