

Discover more from Seeing Things
I will from time to time do this, commit a person (or persons) to memory and draw later. Here is my first one.
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The person on the right was in the lead, with her companion in a black dress not far behind. They had a stride that spoke of some urgency at getting to the market. It appeared that it was a man on the left and a woman on the right, but it doesn’t really matter the gender. They were interesting looking, particularly for being on the main street of a small upstate town.
I think a lot of us cartoonists commit to memory daily images that we see, and then put them in our cartoons in a somewhat unconscious way. Maybe not as specifically as I have here. I love watching people and marveling in how they present themselves to the world.
I hope you are enjoying a quiet weekend!
I Saw This Couple Today
Writers often operate in a similar way. But we focus more on what people say. Eavesdropping is a tool in the writer's jukebox. We need a new word for visual eavesdropping! Eyesdropping?
Please use the word sex not gender! And you are right it doesn’t matter! Love your work!