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!
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!
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.
