I Saw This Couple Today
The farmers market was a treat for people watching
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!
There is also “eaves - drawing” I think I heard it from
Sarah Shaw in a course in comic journalism. Writing down snippets of conversation to draw later. As you were planning to do.
I went to “eaves-draw” at a coffee shop in vancouver. I settled in only to discover that on this day - no one was speaking English - which I loved - I think I heard Hebrew, Spanish and Cantonese and an Eastern European language. So - I just sketched what I saw instead.
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?