A drawing a day: Day 5

This is more than one drawing, so I think I've let myself off for not actually drawing every single day (the weather is too nice...) These were drawn as I was sitting in Starbucks in the Bull Ring on saturday, waiting for an hour after an interview until I had to go get my train back home for the weekend. It was sooo sunny and I had a great spot so I was just drawing randoms:

It was great fun actually, but I def need to do this more often as I'm still not great at drawing people quickly (and covertly).

To see the rest of the drawings in the 'A drawing a day keeps the bad thoughts away' series, click here.

Train Journeys

Considering I live really close to Birmingham, can easily get there, and it's full of amazing shops, galleries, clubs, bars, awesome stuff, I haven't been in over a year. I think it's got something to do with the fact that everytime I go I spend a huge amount of money. Well it turns out that this week I've been 3 times, strangely. On monday I went over to the Bull Ring to give out CV's everywhere (that was a mission, I must have been in about 80 shops)... that paid off because on wednesday I went back to have an interview at Republic. Then today, I was back, this time going over to Edgebaston for an interview at Birmingham city Uni, for an illustration placement working on imagery for software for medical students. That went really well today, I so hope I get it... if I do then I'll go into more detail about what it's all about. Really exciting though! So 2 job prospects there, just got to wait on the results of them. Eeeek *bites nails*

Anyway, the point of this was that it meant I was on lots of trains this week, and I like drawing people on trains. I don't often do it because I get too scared but I actively searched out interesting-looking people. So, I hope I do get one of those jobs because it means I'll be on a train every day, so I can draw loads more people. Here are the best ones/ones I managed to complete before they noticed and scowled:

This dude was on monday, he had an interesting moustache, intently reading his paper.


The behooded fellow was really jittery so I couldn't really get him. He looked mean. The other guy had a really hook-y nose, could just see it through the seats.


She was so wrinkly, I love drawing old people, way more interesting. Couldn't get the glasses though. And the guy on the right, well he's not really there, because as it says 'hot guy that i'm too scared to draw', which was true. He was basically the twin of someone I know, it was very strange, different hair though. Anyway, I didn't want him to see I was looking at him so after 3 attempts I gave up... too attractive to draw, how lame is that. Now I shall never see him again *tear* Lol.

All this drawing on trains is very much like this blog I follow, Ami Underground. It's amazing, definitely subscribe to it, he just draws people on the NY tube every day. Waaay better than I am. It's busy there though, bet he can do it way more covertly, on trains round the West Midlands you look kind of obvious. Maybe I should try this next time I'm down in London.

By the way, that moleskin I'm using, is tiny!! Like, the size of a business card, maybe slightly bigger. It's perfect, and pink. Haha.

Happy monday.

Actually, it is a fairly happy monday, I'm being tres productive. The projects are moving along nicely now... I'm having a good response about my magazine for the art school, hopefully that continues, and my portrait project is taking shape.

I've decided to focus the project around the idea of the 7 Deadly Sins; hence, 1 portrait for each sin :) And I'm going down the avenue at the moment of 'The sins of youth' i.e. I'm taking all my photographs on nights out. Which is fun, and actually harder than you think (whilst intoxicated) because it can't just be the standard Facebook photo can it. It has to be clever. To really delve into these friends of mine and our social idiosyncrasies and desires. The whole facebook thing is fairly interesting though; its kind of a commentary on current society, at least from the vanity perspective. Pride. Sin No. 7 I believe.

Anyway, so I've started drawing from the photos I've been taking. I've decided not to use any tracing at all; I really want to focus on my drawing skills. Here's a couple I've done which I think are the best so far:

So this is one of my friends... I hope he doesn't mind me drawing him whilst downing a pint of something. I'm sure he doesn't. He's a classy guy normally. And does usually own a lower body half. This only took about 15 mins actually, just a quick thing. I need to work more on tone and contrast though, brighter whites, deeper blacks, etc etc. And colour. That's this afternoon.


And this is another classy friend of mine... I'm sure we all know her dearly from her blog :) The tone is better on this one so that's cool.

There will be more after tuesday night, as this is Intended Night of Drinking a Lot.

happy monday!