Guest Blogger: NICK ABADZIS
Journeys Home The day ends, the working week finishes and people wait for their connections at bus stops. There’s just time to put these down before my own bus arrives.
Journeys Home The day ends, the working week finishes and people wait for their connections at bus stops. There’s just time to put these down before my own bus arrives.
Another Train Drawing There's no story to this picture, other than I liked the look of the woman. She was engrossed in her book and wore a great jacket, with little epaulettes. She was very stylish in a quiet, unfussy way.
Bus Ride This kid was about 9 or 10 years old. He was relaxed, happy-seeming, making funny little observations to himself in the way that kids do. I thought the woman sitting next to him was his mother, but then she got off a stop before him. I realized then he'd just been happily talking [...]
Charon - Getting the Character Right This character appears in the forthcoming graphic novel Laika. The character is unnamed in the story, but I think of him as Charon. He’s actually a life saver rather than a ferryman to the realm of the dead, but he does play a similar sort of role. In the promo [...]
Unfinished Drawings of a Woman I forget where I did these drawings, only that the subject was a particularly beautiful and elegant woman. I do remember beginning and abandoning the first one knowing I just hadn’t caught her. The second time, I did.
Ang The Missus, on a train, engrossed in a book one cold day last winter.
Traveling Doodles Doodles loosely based on people I saw on the way home or in the pub. Yes, including the robot.
Sapphire Another quick portrait, of a friend of a friend. The color I added later, messing around in Photoshop.
Paul My friend Paul fell asleep on the train. He can sleep sitting upright. I showed him this when he woke up. I don’t think he liked it much, thinking maybe that I caught him at an unflattering angle. Sorry, mate - couldn’t resist. You normally don’t sit still long enough for me to draw [...]
Bar Dwellers Just a couple of very quick sketches.