Art training

So.... Stacey needed the car so I rode the train today. *sigh* I wish the train were just a little more cost efficient for me to ride it every day that I don't have school. I love riding the train. It's way better than driving. I get to start my morning off with a pleasant walk, and a nice sit where I can daydream or peoplewatch and draw.

I draw people while I'm on the train a lot. I notice two things about that though. 1) I seem to pick people that are getting off at the next stop and 2) I like to draw unattractive people. The first is just amusing. The second is sort of interesting. I guess its because they fascinate me somehow. I always want to ask them to wait so I can finish drawing them but I know I can't. People on the train alone are between worlds. They're not presenting for work, they're not with friends. They're reading or daydreaming. Off in their own place. It's like being back stage. If I told them I was drawing them, they'd switch into presenting mode.
Also, I think I like drawing unattractive people because they're just more interesting to draw. deep crevices of facial lines, bushy eyebrows, nose hair, bald spots, fat rolls. Challenging and different things to draw. Things that make these people more interesting than those with smooth even skin and perfect hair and pressed clothes. not that those things can't be fun to draw sometimes too but they aren't as captivating to me.
I guess part of it is that I live and work around mostly 'beautiful people'. People that have money and are well fed and in good health so their appearance has a certain crispness to it. Also, when you look at someone attractive, you don't wonder so much about them. It's mostly a given that they have a good job, friends, etc. The odd people though. What is it like to be them? What do they do? Where do they live, where do they go? What kinds of things interest them? There's something mysterious and interesting about them and it reflects in their appearance. I wish I understood it better and could explore those stories with my pen.

Maybe I'll try to scan some of these sketches later though most of them are incomplete. Anyhow. More later.

-me

Feets and Beats

Going through one of those twisty little personal social growth spurt kinds of things. This weekend when I was at work all the time by myself I brought in some speakers and listened to music while I worked. So now I'm back in that sorta swingy music mode I get into sometimes. I gotta get new headphones for the workweek though because the ones I have are dead on one side.

Hee. Also it turns out the red shoes aren't being my favourites afterall. It's those big chunky black clogs I'm wearing the most. :) I dunno I love em. they're cut eand they make me stand like 6 feet tall. :) I also like them cause I can slip them on and off 'n' I like my feet. My toes are cute. *^_^* So at lunch time today I sat onna bench in the sun with my feet up on the bench and sketched my feet. The sun and the warm breeze felt heavenly. I think I can feel just hte slightest hint of autumn in the air though but on the whole I'm feeling good. Simple pleasures and all of that. if I remember to, I may scan the sketch I did. I like it cause I used hatching to deliniate forms in the jeans rather than outlines. Of course its cheating a little becuas ethe cloth pattern is really sort of that contour line that I was talking about a week or two ago. yay! Applied knowledge. :)

Silly quiz thingy

( W00t. I am the piratiest! ARRRR! )