Men on the train
The reason I haven’t been scanning and posting regularly recently is that I’ve been busy finishing off work before my holiday and getting ready for a presentation in London. These sketches were done on the train there and back. One of the questions I was asked (in the presentation) was ‘How do you keep yourself creatively fresh?’ and the answer I gave – without needing to take a moment to think about it – was, blogging. Yes, I truly believe the wonderful Innernet has given all of us solitary home-based graphic designers a wonderful way of showing and sharing our ideas, sketches and drawings which keeps us excited and interested.
Pencil sketches in small moleskine
posted by Julie Oakley at Thursday, August 09, 2007
7 Comments:
Julie - this post and Rufus in the grass are terrific. You could do a poster out of Rufus in the grass. It's absolutely perfect.
Sharing is scary too at times. What if they think I am foolish, over the top, self-absorbed, yet we continue to blog our good, better, best, or not picturial efforts! Of course yours are consistently good!
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Interesting! I find reading other art blogs very inspiring too - seeing artists doing things I never dreamed of helps stretch me more too. Seeing these sketches and having done some myself I also realise how difficult it is - that guy at the bottom looks like he could just look over at any moment!!
These have great sense of presence and individuality.
I LOVE these! The men have so much character in their faces! The first gentleman, reading is exceptional!
I love the fellow with his tongue at an odd angle/place something. I agree with Wendy that sometimes we inadvertantly reveal too much, but the sketching is almost a drug, cant stop even if they arnt as good as one would like!
Very good point Julie - I've found that blogging has made me much more creative. We all do it differently but I'm sure that blog most frequently probably agree with you.
I love the pic of Rufus in the preceding post and I think your chaps might travel on the same trains as me! Or are they just a metaphor for middle aged manhood. You could do a series with cute ironic titles and then sell them to an upmarket broadsheet - there you go - I've had another diea just because I visited your blog!!!
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