Photo 31 May May 17, 2012 Hand Book Journal Company Sketchbook 8.25” x 5.5” inches Bic Pen, black “Man doing crossword” drawn in PM on N train. Close-UP This is my one, two or three line method…it’s fast and I’m done. Good Night

May 17, 2012

Hand Book Journal Company Sketchbook

8.25” x 5.5” inches

Bic Pen, black

“Man doing crossword” drawn in PM on N train.

Close-UP

This is my one, two or three line method…it’s fast and I’m done.

Good Night

Photo 28 May May 17, 2012 Hand Book Journal Company Sketchbook 8.25” x 5.5” inches Bic Pen, black “Woman reading Metro newspaper” drawn in AM on R train. Close-UP I find using Bic pens on this kind of paper and for these types of drawings, quick sketches, often times messy and rushed because of the uncertainty of time of the “encounter” on the subway, is more challenging if I use the utensil in the same way as the Rapidograph pens, pencils, or Japanese brush pens, or any other media, in the sense that flow is different. This flow is different from that flow and you can’t expect the song to remain the same… As I went over lines a few times to darken them, otherwise the ink has a gray quality which is an easy task with Rapidograph pens, I wondered whether the drawing looked forced and did not retain the usual spontaneity and fluidity of my other one-line drawings or few-line drawings. I will come up with a name for this method, as this idea was proposed by a special lady named Esther.  The one-line or few-line style is seen in the fifth drawing of “Man doing crossword”.

May 17, 2012

Hand Book Journal Company Sketchbook

8.25” x 5.5” inches

Bic Pen, black

“Woman reading Metro newspaper” drawn in AM on R train.

Close-UP

I find using Bic pens on this kind of paper and for these types of drawings, quick sketches, often times messy and rushed because of the uncertainty of time of the “encounter” on the subway, is more challenging if I use the utensil in the same way as the Rapidograph pens, pencils, or Japanese brush pens, or any other media, in the sense that flow is different.

This flow is different from that flow and you can’t expect the song to remain the same…

As I went over lines a few times to darken them, otherwise the ink has a gray quality which is an easy task with Rapidograph pens, I wondered whether the drawing looked forced and did not retain the usual spontaneity and fluidity of my other one-line drawings or few-line drawings.

I will come up with a name for this method, as this idea was proposed by a special lady named Esther. 

The one-line or few-line style is seen in the fifth drawing of “Man doing crossword”.

Photo 28 May May 17, 2012 Hand Book Journal Company Sketchbook 8.25” x 5.5” inches Bic Pen, black “Woman reading Metro newspaper” drawn in AM on R train. “Man doing crossword” drawn in PM on N train. These are the 4th and 5th drawings in the journal.

May 17, 2012

Hand Book Journal Company Sketchbook

8.25” x 5.5” inches

Bic Pen, black

“Woman reading Metro newspaper” drawn in AM on R train.

“Man doing crossword” drawn in PM on N train.

These are the 4th and 5th drawings in the journal.
Photo 28 May May 17, 2012 Hand Book Journal Company Sketchbook 8.25” x 5.5” inches Bic Pen, black In the AM, “Woman playing with hair listening to iPod” R Train This is 3rd drawing in the journal.

May 17, 2012

Hand Book Journal Company Sketchbook

8.25” x 5.5” inches

Bic Pen, black

In the AM, “Woman playing with hair listening to iPod”
R Train
This is 3rd drawing in the journal.
Photo 26 May May 17, 2012 Hand Book Journal Company Sketchbook 8.25” x 5.5” inches Bic Pen, black In the AM, “Map Reading Woman”, from la France R Train This is 2nd drawing in the journal. Sometimes it looks a little gray…the paper in this journal is not as dense as the Moleskine watercolour paper so you may see drawings bleed from one to another and tooneandanother and so on and so forth like frothy froth…time to say goodnight.

May 17, 2012

Hand Book Journal Company Sketchbook

8.25” x 5.5” inches

Bic Pen, black

In the AM, “Map Reading Woman”, from la France
R Train
This is 2nd drawing in the journal.
Sometimes it looks a little gray…the paper in this journal is not as dense as the Moleskine watercolour paper so you may see drawings bleed from one to another and tooneandanother and so on and so forth like frothy froth…time to say goodnight.
Video 25 May

May 16, 2012

Hand Book Journal Company Sketchbook

8.25” x 5.5” inches

Green Sharpie, looks black on the red material cover, 1st drawing, on the journal.

Drawn on Cross-town M79 Bus heading West in the PM.

Drawing based on the removable front insert of the journal, and looks like my friend Sir Weston who is a kickass drummer in a kickass band named Teachers’ Sons, so check out their new record available for purchase on a limited run on vinyl. 

The record is available for purchase May 2012 on limited edition (200) white vinyl with free download card and is also available for instant download via their Bandcamp site.

Teachers’ Sons also have a Soundcloud site.

The beautiful photograph is the cover of the new Teachers’ Sons album.

Yay! :)

In case links above don’t work, please go directly to:

http://www.teacherssons.com/

http://teacherssons.bandcamp.com/

http://soundcloud.com/teachers-sons

Video 19 May

Moleskine Watercolour Sketchbook

5”x8” inches

Photo taken May 11, 2012
Back Cover of Moleskine
Sticker I peeled off from lamp post, phone box, wall or something
UPside Down and Right Side UP
Downtown NYC
Photo 19 May Moleskine Watercolour Sketchbook 5”x8” inches Photo taken May 11, 2012 Front Cover of Moleskine Sticker I peeled off from lamp post, phone box, wall or something Downtown NYC

Moleskine Watercolour Sketchbook

5”x8” inches

Photo taken May 11, 2012
Front Cover of Moleskine
Sticker I peeled off from lamp post, phone box, wall or something
Downtown NYC
Video 19 May

April 19, 2012

Moleskine Watercolour Sketchbook

Japanese brush pen and ink

5”x8” inches

Forty-first drawing in the Moleskine

2nd Floor during “The Consulate General of Poland in New York presents: “Karol Szymanowski and His Legacy” - a recital by Anna Kijanowska, piano and Sharon Roffman, violin in Commemoration of the 130th Anniversary of the Composer’s Birth.”
The decorations in The Consulate are beautiful and intricate.  Baroque.
And the ladies performing at the concert were lovely and talented, especially in their interpretations of Karol Szymanowski’s compositions.
Drawings of Anna Kijanowska and Sharon Roffman to follow shortly.
This is the last drawing I drew in the Moleskine.  More to follow from new sketchbook.
Photo 19 May April 19, 2012 Moleskine Watercolour Sketchbook Japanese brush pen and ink 5”x8” inches Fortieth drawing in the Moleskine D Train Listening to iPod

April 19, 2012

Moleskine Watercolour Sketchbook

Japanese brush pen and ink

5”x8” inches

Fortieth drawing in the Moleskine

D Train

Listening to iPod


Design crafted by Prashanth Kamalakanthan. Powered by Tumblr.