Here is the collection of line drawings traced from photographs of commuters on the train I get to and from London. I think all together they look strong, the colours give them a fresh look and with each person having one line and one colour, it demonstrates the single minded world these people are in, they never look around to observe what other commuters are up to. They don't notice the person taking a photo of them 2 feet away!
'Caution Commuters ahead'
A play on the way the 'suits' in the station, who do the journey so offen they know what platform at what time they're going to without thinking. So if you don't know your platform, you're kind of wandering around, there's a possibility of being marched over.
I found this immense 'London Encyclopaedia' in the library. It's huge.. and contains history of thousands of London Streets, why they're there and where the names come from. So I'm using it to create a historical street map of the bus route I take from Liverpool Street to Elephant. This is definitely a practise because the spacing is tricky to plan when you are handwriting. It would be much easier, and faster, to do using computer. But I like the whole idea of it looking kind of basic to tie in with old history element. Afterall, Robert Mylne didn't have a Macbook to visualise how Blackfriars Bridge (originally named William Pitt Bridge) would look made from semi-elliptical Portland stone arches in 1709 did he!
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