I recently got a myself a sketchbook to have something to play with during the boring time on the subway each day on my way to work and back (posted about it in the OT thread:
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=7291.msg102716#msg102716 ).
Seems like I'll be doing that sketching stuff on a regular basis now, so I'll share my daily sketches in here from now on.
stuff from previous days:
Day 1:
Day 2:
Day 2, evening, when I figured I should use the sketchbook at home as well, not just on the subway.
stuff from today (Day 3):
upper half (this morning), lower half (this evening)
Note to self: Draw faster, as most people don't stay long enough to get all the details and try to observe more and force yourself to draw what's there instead of falling back to symbols and imagination all the time.
edit (one day later)the meager results of Day 4:
The face in the upper half was drawn this morning, mostly from imagination because the subject got hidden behind other passengers shortly after I had drawn the hairline.
Thing on the right was also drawn this morning and is a piece of the bag of the lady that was sitting in front of me.
The face in the lower half was drawn this evening and much of it also had to be done from memory, because I think she caught me drawing her and then left as a direct reaction to me staring at her.
All of a sudden the whole wagon was empty so for a lack of other subjects I then attempted to draw my own shoe (with mixed success, the foreshortening isn't quite right).
edit 2 (two days later)Day 5(Friday the 13th):
The two women in the upper half were drawn this morning, 50/50 percent from their live image/imagination, this time not because they left or were hidden behind other passengers but because they didn't keep still and kept turning and tilting their heads, so I had to observe their features and then imagine how that would appear from the angle in which I originally started them.
Woman in the lower half was drawn this evening, same problem as with the two from the morning. Hand is a piece of my own hand holding the sketch book, as the wagon was suddenly empty again.
Then this man on the far left entered but I couldn't finish him, because I had to exit then.
A recurring problem I see in my drawings of women is that they usually turn out to appear older in the drawings than they really seem to be in real life.
Another problem I've noticed is that my ears often are not the actual ears I see but rather an inaccurate symbol of an ear(as seen from the side) that has burned itself into my brain.