Riding the 1 Train (Sunday, 12-2-12)

Greazy, sleepy rock n roll dude, rubbing shoulders with cleanly cropped Euro tourist. He was seemingly in deep snooze but popped up swiftly as soon as we hit 34th st like there was some invisible force that beckoned him.

Back in the City, Riding the 6 Midtown (Friday, 11-30-12)

Sleepy on the 6 with prominent and well groomed eye brows. Heading to Gyu Kaku to grab drinks and Japanese BBQ with my old school crew.

Sleeping Woman in Violet Top on a Packed 5 Train (Monday, 6-25-12)

Been a minute since I have ridden rush hour trains from 86th and Lex - after a couple of inaccessible trains and then sardine packed into this 5 I remembered my rule of not trying to go downtown before 9.

Giant Blond Fraux-Hawk on the R Train (Tuesday, 6-7-11)

It was large, not sure this drawing does it justice. Especially atop a woman with a frame as slight as hers. Guy on left (see the arm) observed my rendering as he exited a couple of stops before my Union Sq. destination - babbling something semi-coherent to me which I couldn't tell if it was praise, disparagement or a little bitta both. Sleeping asian man behind her oblivious to all but remerkably awoke to his deep slumber just at his stop.

This Morning on the R and 1 (Tuesday, 2-1-11)

Head boppin' kid.

Backpack, Reflection, and Asleep Before We Left the Station (Monday,9-13-10)

Monday morning on the R to Whitehall.

These 2 were asleep before the doors were even closed on this 1 train departing its point of origin - South Ferry.

February 9, 2010 on the 7th Ave IRT

Sleeping with a slight twinge of strain/pain in the evening Brooklyn bound.

Curly curls into letters and numbers on the 1.

Reading and writing on the 2 that morning.

Sleeping on the F Train in a Cozy Looking Hat (Thursday, 11-5-09)

Some light Dozing on the 3 train (Thursday, 9-10-09)

Tuesday 8-11-09

On the 1, 2 and R (Thursday, 7-14-09)

1 Train.

Serious earrings vs. ill shmatta on the 2.

Sacked out and a little on the dusty side on the R.

Under the Influence of Spicy Cheese (Friday, 5-15-09)

...from Jana's friday afternoon cheese happy hour. A little burning feeling in my stomach to help my drawings along - 1 train.

3 train.

Slickster with a bit of a Pompadour going. I recognize him as another who makes a living in the vicinity of the Houston street station.

Man in black clinging, in claw-like fashion, to the pole.

Cozy (Monday, 4-27-09)

1 Train, mzlmustaghddjnk, reading.

2 Train girl and her pda, woman contemplating serious things or maybe she just had a heavy head.

Cozying up against cool metal rails on hot day in a purple tank top. Closest thing you'll get to refreshing smushed up on the 2 train rush hour.

Sleepy (Wednesday 4-8-09)

After 330am work and trip to jersey to push some product, took a dazed mid afternoon ride to Grand Army Plaza to pick up the boy at school and get ready for some Sedering. Sleep depravation makes me think its a month earlier.

Sleeping on a Brooklyn College Flatbush Ave. Bound 2 Train. Got lazy with the jacket pattern, but there were a lotta little squares.

Same train, brighter scarf, playing to pass the time.

Kid on the 1.

Ambiguous Relations on the 2 Train (Wednesday, 3-25-09)

Young woman sleeping on the 2, she slowly began leaning to her right and eventually landed on the middle aged guy next to her and popped awake for a second. His reaction was friendlier than you'd expect from such a sequence of events. After this repeated a few times it became clear that they had a relationship but I couldn't come to a conclusion on whether it was familial or romantic (not to judge but some creepiness if the latter - c'mon ami, don't hate).

Man who's hair seemed browner than most.

She was an amorphous scale of blue to grey tones, tried to break it down a little in my few moments on the 1.

Tuesday Morning (1-20-09)

Sleeping on the D (Monday, 12-8-08)

With the wife on the train so not much drawing this AM, but caught this dude snoozing between Grand and BWAY Lafayette

Wednesday NIght 1-Chambers-3 (8-6-08)

Olive skinned woman with an interesting shade of strawberry hair.

Tall, striking woman and big sweaty dude in front of construction site at Chambers street.

Sleepy, Sleepy

Thursday Evening on the Shuttle-2 (4-10-08)

A number of factors drove me to the Shuttle-2 route home, which is sometimes nice to break up that 4/5 monotony...
Intense guy in suit on the Shuttle from GC40Deuce to Times Square. Had very intense lighting on his head, but alas short trip, no time for shading...


With the book open it looked like she was reading, but I noticed after a while that there was little movement and that she had fallen asleep on what must have been a less than exhilirating page.

Quickie before jumping off at good old Clark street....

Tuesday Morning on 5 Train (3-25-08)

Light crowd this AM for ome reason, must've been many trains ahead as there were some congestion delays.

Lady reading a gossip rag.

Never could understand people who'd let themselves doze off on the train. Even in this day and age, never a good idea...

In the midst of this sketch when all the sudden the car got totally filled at Union Sq. Was caught like a deer in headlights and by the time i realized i should have just started something new instead of trying to peer around the fairly solid mass of riders to catch a few last details, train rolled into GC40deuce. Bummer.