Commute people

I liked how this young lady's big hood hung over the back of her seat:




This fellow reading the paper had on Clark Kent-style glasses with really thick rims. At first I thought he was wearing eyeglass cords, but they were probably just earphones:



Book in one hand, coffee in the other. She had on some neat boots, too:



Oh, and I'll tell you what, sketching on a bus that seems intent upon hitting every single pothole and bump on the road is pretty challenging.

Latest commute sketchwork

Slowly but surely I seem to be mapping out the area around the Addison Brown Line stop:



Some people on the bus sketches:

Street corner sketch

One of my weaknesses has always been backgrounds and environments, so these sketches are turning out to be good exercise. I'm finding that I don't need to make them perfectly accurate, just picking out enough detail to capture the look of a scene is sufficient. And it's fun.

Corner of Addison and Ravenswood:

New sketches from my commute

Newspaper vending machines outside the Addison Brown Line stop:



Lady reading on the Ravenswood train heading to Kimball, I liked what the light was doing with her hat:

On-the-go sketches

Been preoccupied since the birth of my daughter (she'll be 7 weeks old as of Wednesday); too busy, too tired, too lazy to draw. I have a little sketchpad that I got as a gift, I'm going to try and do quickie drawings during my work commute... We'll have to see how long I can keep that going.