Micron Pigma Ink in small Moleskine sketchbook
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Some people on BART today and yesterday. I felt pretty cheeky drawing the guy at the top left of the first picture. He was standing right over me, holding on to the seat in front of me reading. He got off at the next stop so I didn’t get to finish his arms or the book he was reading.
I really liked the woman’s nose in the bottom left hand picture. There’s lots of great noses on BART this week–if only I was able to draw them properly. With the train jerking so much, and the small size of the paper, noses are pretty tiny–one little jiggle and they’ve got a wild schnoz [from Yiddish for nose: snoyts, snout, muzzle, from German Schnauze.]
You can see that something funny happened to the binding in this new Moleskine. The first two pages of every Moleskine sketchbook always seem to be stuck together near the binding so this time I tried pressing them apart which was not a good thing and left a loose string on this third page. At least I got the first few pages filled (after totally messing up the drawing on the first page. Got over that by reminding myself it’s not an omen and it’s my sketchbook and I don’t have to show anyone that page!).
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Jana Bouc, Artist 
8 replies on “Subway Drawings (Noses on BART)”
Such little faces are very hard to draw. And I never, ever can draw a face with just a pen, I always need the possibility to erase mistakes. But you did a very good job on these faces, bravo!
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Super super super!! nice noses and the REST of the faces too!!!
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Jana just wonderful as always. I havent musturd up the nerve to drawout its scary for me. But you have done so well even with the train and moving. How do you start with all this to dal with?
Linda
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Jana just wonderful as always. I havent musturd up the nerve to drawout its scary for me. But you have done so well even with the train and moving. How do you start with all this to deal with?
Linda
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These are some great noses Jana. Funny what little things attract our pen. I got into earrings one time and it takes that concentrated effort to realize how many different ones there are.
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Happy work.
Relaxation.
I love your drawing.
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Great subway drawings. Congrats.
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this is so hard to do, the close proximity to the subject (and chance of getting caught!), the shaking of the train, people moving into your line of sight, etc etc but still you’ve managed to capture so many, great fun to see the variety!
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