Across from me, a mother tenderly holds her four-month-old baby girl. The baby rests on her mother’s shoulder. The little girl lifts her head from time to time, enjoying the feeling of balancing as the bus moves.
A man stands on the bus, looking out a window. His eyes scan the traffic. He glances at the people around him and smiles at the baby. He has taken a long journey inside his skin and bones since his mother held him on her shoulder.
amazing that you managed to do that on public transport, I find it so hard to draw a moving target.
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful last statement.
ReplyDeleteVery nice grouping of lights and darks on the older man's face. I also like how when the light is blown out to white, the modeling takes place in the shadows.
ReplyDeleteI can't draw when somebody watching over my shoulder, but you did such a nice pictures!
ReplyDeleteI find drawing on trains the worst, which is odd because I assumed that since they're on tracks it'd be a smoother ride!
ReplyDeleteI love that portrait of the man. For a sketch done on a bus it's an astonishing portrait.
Both portraits are lovely! Did you use water soluble colour pencils?
ReplyDeleteThanks, everybody.
ReplyDeleteMarianne, yes, they're both done in water-soluble colored pencils. I only had time to quickly lay in the man's face before the bus arrived, so I finished that sketch from memory on the airplane.
I showed the sketch of the baby to the mom at the end of the bus ride so she'd know why I was staring so intently at her baby.