Day 21

'man sleeping on the bus who then woke up and caught me starting at him', Pencil on Paper

Went up home this weekend to catch up with my family which is why I was unable to post Draw 21 until today as I have no internet access at my family home. 

The reason behind today's draw was mainly due to me having to get the bus home straight after work and rather than not fit a drawing in, I decided to use the 1 and half hour bus journey to help me keep on track. Initially I had another image in mind for today but managed to forget to bring that with me so I ended up having to improvise somewhat. After consider a few different options, and the possibility of taking of one shoe to have something to draw, I looked across and spotted the guy across for me was almost falling asleep every few seconds. At this point I knew exactly what it was that I was going to draw and all I had to do was wait for the inevitable to happen. Deciding to draw a stranger on the bus without them knowing is a difficult task, especially as you have to spend quite a lot of time staring directly at your subject. Whilst my subject was asleep this wasn't much of an issue however the people in seats near me had a clear view in my direction so it did mean I had to be careful otherwise I could have looked a little strange. To combat this I basically pretended to be holding an object that I was studying and taking a brief pause every once in a while to look at the ceiling of the bus as if I was pondering over something deep, meaningful and of the utmost importance. It all went pretty well until the guy I was drawing woke up suddenly, looked straight at me and of course there I was pad and pencil in hand, positioned in the seat so that I was directly facing him... even my veiled attempts to fall-back on my pondering face didn't seem to make him feel any more at ease. So with in a few moments he turned of the light above his head before shuffling around for his stuff and deciding to move seats, was this an awkward moment... yes, yes it was, did I deem it necessary... for the good of the project you damn right.