Train Peeps
I’ve recently come to the realization that I don’t draw enough. Which is rather odd when I think about it because I have an art based job. There lies the twist. Where my job is in the art field, I rarely get good chances to draw for work. Most jobs can be done right in the computer thus skipping the whole pencil to paper aspect of it. Anyway, I don’t draw nearly enough and that scares me because should I slack off long enough to loose my skills entirely then I’m not sure what I could do to support myself. I’m not even close to being pretty enough to get by on my looks. So, I decided to take action and started drawing people on the train in to work. I generally play my GBA but at the moment I’ve exhausted my selection of games (Mega Man Zero 3 being my latest conquest) so it would seem that this would be the best time to start this little project/hobby before I get distracted again.
Drawing people on the train is a bit of a challenge as I don’t really want to get caught by the subject. There is also the fear of some one coming up and saying “What are you drawing? Can I see?” which would probably result in me slumping down in to my seat hugging my sketchbook and quietly saying “um… no... not really”. Luckily, most people are sleeping or too involved in reading to notice me scrawling down their features in my book. The results turned out to be pretty good for not having drawn an actual person, face or otherwise, in a long time. I just generally make up the faces when I draw and the result is a lot of my people looking the same. I know where the muscles are in the face (mostly) but putting them all together in a variety of ways to created different faces has always escaped me. After only one day I’m starting to see the different ways the face muscles can be grouped, pulled and sagged. It’s great and lots of fun so far.
My train ride in is 50 min long and since I get on one of the earlier stops I usually have to wait for more people to get on. Today was kind of frustrating as most people sat down in the direction the train was heading in which meant I could have drawn a lot of the backs of peoples heads (which I probably do someday), but later on down the track more got on just waiting to be jotted down. Once I got in to the city I planned on getting on the Metro (subway) and play more GBA, but I decided against it. Drawing on the subway will provide more of a challenge I thought. It’s more crowded so I wouldn’t have the luxury of drawing someone way down on the end of the car with out getting noticed, but more importantly the people would be getting on and off more frequently. My drawing exercise has just turned in to speed drawing and things are getting interesting. I now have to quickly put down a rough head and little tick marks for the eyes, nose and mouth and block out the hair before the person gets to their stop. Once I’ve got that done I can go back and put more details in before… hey… wait! Damn… now I just have to quickly finish this by memory. It’s a fun and an added twist to the trip.
Here’s today’s “train peeps”. I’ll try and post these as often as I can for the 2 or 3 people that actually read this. On a follow up, here’s the coloured version of the two fat guys picture I did before. I decided to just use flat colours with no shading. Not bad and my friend seems to like it. It’ll go along with the mascot type character he wanted for he business, which I also drew up.
And with that… here are the pictures.
Drawing people on the train is a bit of a challenge as I don’t really want to get caught by the subject. There is also the fear of some one coming up and saying “What are you drawing? Can I see?” which would probably result in me slumping down in to my seat hugging my sketchbook and quietly saying “um… no... not really”. Luckily, most people are sleeping or too involved in reading to notice me scrawling down their features in my book. The results turned out to be pretty good for not having drawn an actual person, face or otherwise, in a long time. I just generally make up the faces when I draw and the result is a lot of my people looking the same. I know where the muscles are in the face (mostly) but putting them all together in a variety of ways to created different faces has always escaped me. After only one day I’m starting to see the different ways the face muscles can be grouped, pulled and sagged. It’s great and lots of fun so far.
My train ride in is 50 min long and since I get on one of the earlier stops I usually have to wait for more people to get on. Today was kind of frustrating as most people sat down in the direction the train was heading in which meant I could have drawn a lot of the backs of peoples heads (which I probably do someday), but later on down the track more got on just waiting to be jotted down. Once I got in to the city I planned on getting on the Metro (subway) and play more GBA, but I decided against it. Drawing on the subway will provide more of a challenge I thought. It’s more crowded so I wouldn’t have the luxury of drawing someone way down on the end of the car with out getting noticed, but more importantly the people would be getting on and off more frequently. My drawing exercise has just turned in to speed drawing and things are getting interesting. I now have to quickly put down a rough head and little tick marks for the eyes, nose and mouth and block out the hair before the person gets to their stop. Once I’ve got that done I can go back and put more details in before… hey… wait! Damn… now I just have to quickly finish this by memory. It’s a fun and an added twist to the trip.
Here’s today’s “train peeps”. I’ll try and post these as often as I can for the 2 or 3 people that actually read this. On a follow up, here’s the coloured version of the two fat guys picture I did before. I decided to just use flat colours with no shading. Not bad and my friend seems to like it. It’ll go along with the mascot type character he wanted for he business, which I also drew up.
And with that… here are the pictures.
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