Monday, January 27, 2014

Subway sketches today on Q train, in pencil.

Today is a little bit warmer day, so I traveled Uptown Manhattan and sketched few people on the way.

For some reason people kept leaving too fast for me to finish sketch, so I had to discipline myself by grabbing few characteristic lines for the whole figure before clarifying some details.

I was lucky that most people were so self absorbed that no one bothered me with glances, and I was trying to look in different directions to hide what I do.  I used "perfect pencil" by Faber-Castell, the green plastic one, it is a bit hard, even marked grade B, but it was nice to have a tight lines, almost like driving BMW. It was a good training.

2 comments:

Autumn Leaves said...

You got wonderful details, especially that last page. As always, I love the pencil against the white...

Nikira said...

Thank you, CrimsonLeaves, sketching on the train makes my day so much more interesting. Testing myself. :)