Something's cracked my shell,
it's just a small crack nothing big,
but when it rains I'm getting wet,
the forecast looks so bleak.
Monday - rain, Tuesday - storms,
Wednesday - showers, wets the norm.
Thursday - rain, Friday's bleak.
the weekend's called off, what a week.
- Poem by Chris Harrington -
Good Lord! I'm running out of pages in my sketch book, what am I going to do? will the universe collapse? what would McGyver do? think! think!... oooh! coffee...
Labels: alex, me, selfportrait, sketch
By request of my friend and Private Investigator Hugh Evans I am portraying my vision of a battered soul, perhaps pre-battered would be a better term, but you never know what's going on inside. As we say in my land "Faces: we can see but hearts we can't foresee"... or something like that.
It's amazing how sometimes people are so immerse in their thoughts that they even manage to defy gravity without realizing! Take this guy for example, it seemed to me that he should have fallen over ages ago, but ignoring gravity seems to do the trick!
So, I've been to the Post Office several times this week trying to send off an application form and each time there is something wrong with it or with the pictures attached or something, so I've had to get another one and fill it in again and again. I almost know the form by heart now and I'm carrying all the failed forms, plus the new ones and about 12 pictures of myself. What started as sending off a simple form and a couple of papers is turning into a race of bureaucratic hurdles. aaargh!
Labels: bureaucracy, man
After I drew this guy (whom I saw for 30 seconds on a train going the opposite direction) I saw quite a few other men sitting in the exact same position, the only thing that changed was the gadget they were holding. Perhaps it sounds boring but to me it was a fascinating realization. If we still lived in caves I already know what I'd draw on the walls!
There was a handful of loud screechy teenagers on the train, they had surrounded this man but he managed to keep his stoic expression, he didn't blink or wince or felt intimidated. He carried on reading his newspaper as if he was sitting in a quiet library. I still wonder sometimes if he was real at all.
Sometimes people get so much into their thought on the train that they look as if they were on a trance. You have to wonder if they are solving the problems of the world in their heads or trying to remember if they watered the plants as his wife asked them earlier. I bet this happens to me a lot. Although I'm pretty sure I watered them.
As of today my normal commuting route has changed and it's a bit weird, so while I get used to it I will be leftlingifying random people I see on the train. Meet Mr. Curls, he's got a suitcase and is sweating like a hound... pretty much like me. He looks pleased, it must have been a good day. Lucky him!
A-ha! you thought I had forgotten. Well no! I was pretty dazed last week with the office move, but now I'm back on my feet. As promised I give you Sir Roger George Moore, well known for his suave and witty demeanour. Best known for portraying two British action heroes, Simon Templar and James Bond.
For the previous James Bond I sketched with pencil before inking and I kept feeling the results were not the same as with usual leftling portraits, this time I went straight for the ink and I have to say I am really pleased. I hope you like him too.
Labels: 007, face, James Bond, man, portrait, Roger Moore
Apologies. I didn't have time to draw Roger Moore as you'd expect next. Instead I draw someone I saw on the train home last night. I don't think I've seen someone so concentrated in his Sudoku ever. I kind of know the feeling, specially with the one they publish on Fridays which is next to impossible. Quite cruel for a Friday treat.
Sir Thomas Sean Connery is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond seven times. SEVEN! coincidence? I think not!
Labels: 007, actor, James Bond, man, portrait, Sean Connery
Daniel Craig, one of British theatre's most famous faces who was waiting tables as a struggling teenage actor with the NYT, is now starring as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006)
Labels: 007, actor, Daniel Craig, James Bond, man, portrait
After a friend's request I've decided to dedicate a couple of the coming drawings to the excellent 007. I have started with good old paddy Bond Pierce Brosnan.
Labels: 007, actor, James Bond, man, Pierce Brosnan, portrait
