Robin du Bois

I ate dinner at Robin du Bois tonight with Gabe, Edith, Travis and Sarah, which is the classic crowd for some good French comfort food. We enjoyed the usual "Sherwood Platter" to start and then I had a duck salad. I made this drawing after we finished eating. We were seated at a long table looking towards the door and I happened to be at the head of the table so I had a nice view for sketching. I wish there were more people in the sketch but everyone was moving around too much and I'm a bit rusty w/ the fast sketches. I only caught the woman in the bottom right corner as she was sipping her coffee.

Tomorrow I'm in Philadelphia volunteering for the Obama campaign so look for a sketch from the City of Brotherly Love.
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The Ride Home

Doodles from the train ride home. I'm commenting on Fall 2009 proto bag samples so I have bags on the brain. They are also doing a lot of construction on the F line between the Jay Street stop and Bergen so there were a ton of MTA track workers mulling about. The little dude in the lower left corner of the page was a worker that was walking down the platform at East Broadway as I was waiting for the train.

Good Night!
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Fall Figure Drawing

I made it to the SVA figure drawing studio today after work for the first time since the new school year. It had been so long since the last time I went that I was really a bit worried and hesitant that I wouldn't be able to draw. The start was a bit rocky but after a few sketches I fell back into a bit of a rhythm and churned out some decent sketches. There are more after the jump but the one above was one of my favorite long poses.


A few two minute poses.


Our first long pose.


Another drawing that I was really happy with.


Overall it was so much fun to be back at figure drawing. All of the crazy regulars were there which is always strangely comforting. After such a fun time drawing I was basically giddy for the rest of the night.

Hope I can make it next week.
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Sunday Subway

Day Two, feeling good. Even considering I was at work today I managed to get some a quick sketch in while waiting for the train. Nothing special, just a little doodle of an electrical outlet and some graphic stuff.

More work tomorrow!
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Resurrection

I'm going to give this thing a go again. This is just a quick drawing of a Vespa scooter that was parked outside the Colette Store in Paris. A guy and a girl came out of the store and started to get ready to ride the scooter so I had to hurry up and make the drawing. I was happy with the drawing but would have liked to spend a bit more time on the sketch.

Let's see if I can make this happen.
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V. Dollar Building

Here's another drawing from my trip to Put In Bay last week. It's a building near downtown that's certainly over 100 years old and housed the original Put In Bay post office and countless other businesses over the years. Javan said that when he was a kid it was a hardware store, but now it features a bar called "The Fishbowl" in one half of the ground floor and in the other half there is a restaurant called "Mossback's". The "V. Dollar" above the front door is the name of the dude who built it. I forget his first name but he was the first Mayor of Put In Bay.

That's all the history I have.

When I was working on this drawing a guy came up and started chatting with me. It caught me off guard as people in New York don't really pay too much attention so I decided that I need to be more prepared to talk to folks when I'm drawing.

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Self Portrait in the Window

This is just a semi-blind contour drawing that I made of myself. I drew from the reflection in a window after it was dark outside. The window had a double layer of glass which caused a double reflection making it difficult to see detail.

I like how my head is sorta stretched out vertically, like a bobble head doll.

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Tony's Place

Last week I was away on family vacation on South Bass Island which is a part of thePut In Bay Islands out in Lake Erie. This is a drawing of one of the "watering holes" on the island. Tony's Place is more of a local spot so it's pretty similar to my local brooklyn spot, Boat. Anyway, this is a drawing of the outside of the bar.

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Mouse Trap

I have some mice in my apartment and I'm trying to get rid of them. I killed one a few nights back and I was hoping to find another tonight, but alas my traps were empty.

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111 Mercer

Today was my first summer Friday here in the city (last week I flew to Indiana on Friday) so I took advantage of the wonderful weather and biked down to SoHo to check out a few shops and maybe spend some time drawing.

I ended up making a drawing of 111 Mercer Street which is between Prince and Spring streets just south of the A.P.C. store. The building is one of the few ground floor spaces that does not house some kind of retail or business, but they were looking for a tenant (see the sign in my drawing).


After the jump you can check out an image of the real building that a grabbed from google street view.

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