Farewell NYC

Finishing up the sketches from my last sketchbook, before I came to Japan.
So from this point on, all my sketches will be from Osaka, where I currently am living.



Waiting in the the Philly airport for my trip to back to New York. I got to speak to an interesting guy who builds/engineers plane engines and things like that. He was pretty knowledgeable on all things Celtic, and wants to retire in Ireland. I really appreciate conversations like that.



My former roomate on the subway.




Some guys hanging out on the A.




A stocky man sleeping on the A.



Some West African men (I'm assuming that because the shirts they were wearing had West African pattern work on it) heading uptown on the A.

Back in the city

So I was in Miami for a little while and now I'm back.

Every time I go to Miami, it only takes a few days for me to know that I want to be back in New York City. I could go on about the various reasons why Miami isn't my cup of tea, but I'll let you know that the transportation system is a big reason why...if anyone has ridden the metro rail, or taken buses in Miami, you should know what I mean.

Anyway, enjoy some more sketches. The following are still from the good 'ol subway here in NYC.

Hard Times

This week has not been a good one for me, a lot of stuff going on...


Some girl in a dotted dress on the L-train, I wanted to draw the big guy next to her but he was big and I was a little afraid that he would rip my book apart...it turns out he knew I was trying to draw him and I guess was looking forward to seeing the drawing. Alas, I didn't have enough time and it never came to be.


A couple on the A-train, I'm certain they knew I was drawing them.


This isn't a particularly great page but if I really like the drawing of the boy laying his head in his sister who was wrapped in the towel. It was suck a cool image that I just went straight ahead in drew him even though he was staring directly at me. He got off one or two stops after i started though, but ran to the window behind me as he got off to scope my drawing of him.


This guy towards the bottom was looking pretty stoic and awesome, but it was kinda hard to draw him so I didn't complete his drawing. Oh well.

Independance Rain

It rained all day in New York...what a holiday.

Anyway, more sketches to enjoy. Just to let you know from now on I'll be backlogging sketches and posting only a limited amount so I can update more often.

So, I'll be posting more frequently from now on...though there may be a little break sometime next month, but I'll explain about that as I get more details.




This guy was awesome. New York has a lot of interesting people to draw, but I often see the same type of people. Rarely am I blessed by such a visage of awesome.






...Most read book of all time on the subway, The Bible.

Summer Time and the Living is Easy

Alright, so I started a new sketchbook. I'm already about a quarter way into it, but I haven't been posting as much, because I have a few things going on that have been keeping me busy.

This time I'm back to plain white pages...the paper is a little thin for my tastes but it's about double the size of the previous one so I get to move my arm a little when I'm sketching.











More to come, with more regular updates soon...

I was sick on Friday due to food poisoning...luckily it lasted for about half the day.
Anyway, I didn't get as many sketches as I would like to lately, but it's something.

The Living Sea

A young Jacques Cousteau was on my train last night

A little later than I expected, but I was tuckered out yesterday.
Now I'm caught up to my newest sketches...sorry for the red pages, they don't work as well as I thought. I probably should try white on top of it.

The last one I think is appropriate for valentine's day, I did it yesterday...but better late than never...those two were all over each other.

A few backed up sketches

A few sketches that I haven't posted on my other blogs/websites...