Recently ive been thinking about taking drawing into the realm of the characature in order to continue to lossen up and stop making drawings that are stiff and many times uninteresting depiction of the mundane. So as fate would have it for the first time in a year or so of drawing on the train i ran into someelse who draws in the train, while i was drawing on the train.
I was sitting ina 6 seater in an early afternoon train, which was pretty sparse in its passengers when some guy decided he needed to sit int eh seating row with me when clearly there were plenty of entire rows empty for him to occupy.

He proceeded to take out a sketchbook and pencils and announced he was ‘returning the favor’. He was so unassuming and nice that i had a hard time justifying feeling threatened but I did. Anyone whos willing to draw on the train or in public is an idiot like me or really good and confident in their work so as not to mind or be bothered by onlookers. As it turned out we were both getting off the train at the same stop so, after showing me his drawing of me i got his information, and went home and GOOGLED the shit out him (NH).  Looking at his drawing made me prety sure he fell into the 2nd category of public drawers and googling him confirmed it. He is a pretty fucking good  illustrator. And envialby makes a living drawing among other things (you bastard!). You can check him out at Peter Emmerich dot blogspot dot com

I have Long been a fan of caricature and its ability to flirt with both the cartoon and the classical potrait, but have never found the middle ground needed to successfully caricaturize people, but am going to make a concerted effort to figure it out. I did this as a start.

Life’s fortuitous accidents can really work to affirm your instincts.