iPhone Drawings

The fall semester is over, grades are in, and I am taking a little mental break. It has been a while since I posted any iPhone drawings, but then I hadn't done many in a while. Here are a few recent ones; I guess these constitute my purple or violet period, with some more filled out versions of very fast line drawings. (I do the filling out mostly in real time, though.) All are my usual life sketches/portraits, on the various forms of public transportation I take (light rail, PATH, NY subway, etc.). I have yet to sketch anyone on the Newark light rail/subway, though, perhaps because my trip is so brief. I'll have to take it all the way to the end of the line(s) and draw some of the people I see. Newark doesn't lack for interesting subjects for portraits. I also have to return to drawing on the iPad, which has a larger screen. The software for it changed, though, so it's less agile, at least to my fingertips, than the iPhone version.

Recent iPhone/iPad Drawings

The quarter is almost over--yes, I know, it seems like I write this every week, but the reality is that it has felt like the end of the quarter for at least the last month and a half now.  The sunny June weather, or the fact that it's June, doesn't help. Nearly all my colleagues at other institutions have been done for weeks, but we are giving the last few exams. While I haven't been blogging as much during this period, I have been sketching and snapping photos, so here are a few of the former. As always, they're life drawing portraits, done on the spot in cafes or on public transportation, with my digits. Enjoy.

Woman in Caribou Cafe, Chicago

Man on the NJ light rail, Jersey City

Woman viewing her phone, New York City subway

Man on the NJ light rail, Jersey City

Man at Caribou Cafe, Chicago

Recent iPhone Drawings

As I mentioned a month or so ago, I'd been trying out the iPad C'd gifted to me, and was enthralled with using the AnimatorHD software on it to create animations, but I've also used it to draw as well. I have not ceased drawing, especially life drawing, with my iPhone, however, and continue my subway portraits and outdoor sketches whenever I can.

One of the things I've been trying is different styles, colors, line thicknesses, to see what I can come up with. My very first drawings were pretty much all line, then I moved to full-color ones, and since this past spring I've moved into grayscale images, but one of the cool aspects of the digital pieces is that I can save them and rework them in different formats, so that my original black-and-white drawing of poet Bob Perelman from earlier this spring became a color portrait without being completely redone (though it did take some effort).

Below are a few of the many sketches I've done over the last month or so; I keep thinking that I may have to return to taking the El on days when I'm not so pressed for time in order to keep my practice up. Enjoy!