I used to take public transportation often. I loved drawing while on a bus, subway or train. There is something liberating about knowing you can’t control the line, you just have to create within the parameters of a jostling, bumpy series of movements. It’s a great exercise in gesture drawing for one, but it’s also great for allowing for the happy mistake again and again.
This was actually a woman I saw on the train. She had the headband and she had the strong angular look. I didn’t draw her while looking at her, she was just someone I saw passing, but I remembered the look and had her in mind as I made up this drawing. Why I added the tie and the mini-story, I have no idea, but it made sense at the time!
Here is another from that same train ride.
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