Bicycle Fun

Riding the subway and thinking of bicycles.
Watercolor added at home.
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subway sleeping

I'm just trying to get back to making and posting drawings on a regular basis. The left side was drawn on the subway ride in this morning. On the right is a blind contour drawing for just a minute ago.

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Roof Top View

Looking out the window during lunch today. I ate too many doughnuts from the Doughnut Plant, so tasty.
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Andrew At Buttermilk

A sketch of Andrew I made last night while visiting Steve last night at Buttermilk. The bag contained a tasty a carryout torta that came from Tacos Nuevo Mexico. I was using a Pilot BRAVO! pen that was nearly out of ink. I had to keep wetting it on my tongue to continue the drawing. Actually that gave some of the lines a nice faded look.

I started drawing the word "GOVERNMENT" from a sign on the wall and I'm just realizing that I've sketched it before while hanging out at Buttermilk. I do like those letter-forms!

Lunch Time!
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Group Doodle

I think Dena started this drawing with a portrait of me, I think. Anyway, it turned into a group doodle that utilized two different pens and various other portraits. There's a lot going on.

Enjoy.
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Incomplete Cranes

Ship cranes on the Columbia Waterfront District as seen from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. A very quick drawing B/C it was super cold!
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My Throat Opens 4 Wine

After figure drawing I had dinner with Andrew, Stephanie and a few of their co-workers. This is a napkin drawing of a t-shirt concept. The idea stems from the phrase "My Throat Opens 4 Wine". It's a extra long shirt with a printed Sexy Body w/ bikini featuring the aforementioned phrase illustrated as a stomach tattoo in gothic letters on the printed body.

As you can see, the artwork has been approved. All we need now is financial backing for this project so please leave a comment if you are interested becoming a part of this unique business opportunity.

Thanks.
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Figure Drawing - 2 weeks in a row

I made it to figure drawing for the second week running. I had a good start with the short poses but after the first longer pose I wasn't really feeling that great. I was drawing with graphite up until that point so I decided to switch to pen and work on some semi-blind contour drawings. This was the first attempt and it worked in that it got me drawing again without worrying too much about what the actual drawing was looking like.

After the jump there are some examples of my 2 minute poses.
Enjoy!
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I like the center drawing on this page


Something about the one one the left catches my eye.

Fall Bags

Over the past week I've been receiving samples for the Fall '09 bags and I've been making my construction revisions using pen and paper sketches. In the past I've traditionally used the computer to make all my drawings and for the past few seasons I've gone back to classic drawing tools. After the jump you can see a few more revisions drawings. I find the actually take less time when drawn by hand.

These drawings make up the fun part of my job (and the part I have the least time to work on because of our insane development calendar). So now you know what I do with my days!

Enjoy.
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Upside-Down Birds

Last night I had a somewhat crazy dream. I don't usually remember my dreams but this particular one stuck with me and actually woke me up in middle of the night. It was vivid enough for me too feel the need to record it in some way, so I grabbed my notebook and jotted down some words and a quick doodle of my dream, you can see it in red ink on the above scan. I made the drawing without the lights on so I'm actually pretty amazed how legible the text came out. It reads:

"Upsidedown Purple Birds like womens Apt"

In my dream, a few birds were flying around and sort of attacking me. They were purple and there heads were permanently rotated 180 degrees so they were looking upside-down. I'm not sure why I was dreaming about birds but I think I know where the purple comes from. On Sunday evening Leah and I were walking down Degraw and I happened to look into the windows of a garden level apartment. This apartment was immaculately decorated in a white and pastel purple color palette, very scary. So scary that we decided to turn around an have another look but as we passed by the second time, an elderly women came out of the garden level door. I sort of freaked out because I thought she might have seen me looking in on our first passing by. At any rate, I had purple on my brains and it must have made it into my dreams.

The drawing in black ink is a more cleaned up version of what I remember the dreamy birds to have looked like.

Night.
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