Cafe sketch

Biro on a napkin.

Face

This face just emerged while I was doodling at work. It started to look nice so I took more care with it. Then I could see it was willing me to overwork it, so I quit while I was ahead.

Another sketch

Cafe drawings, or "Stay still, you bastards!"

Either I have to home in on those sedentary patrons of a cafe, whose habit it is not to move at all when they read (and drink their latte by telekinesis), or I have to learn to draw faster, more economically and from immediate memory.

The most promising effort seemed to be the one started with a biro on a napkin. But what happened? The little git moved, that's what.

Running Man

At least he's slightly clothed this time.

Sketches from life

First foray for a long long time into sketching from life, in the works canteen (Bodleian Library) and at one of my cafe haunts.

Poets

The Guardian recently did a series of giveaway booklets about poets, so I copied the pics of Seamus Heaney and Walt Whitman over coffee.