Café Hopping and People Watching

I do a lot of drawing when I'm at coffee shops - sketches of the people around me and wherever I'm sitting. So, here are some of the more recent café drawings in my book. They're great fun to do.

Sitting outside the café/bookstore in Damariscotta.

Just some doodles of people in Damariscotta, Camden and Augusta. The moral of this story might be that I drink way too much tea and coffee.

A few random sketches...

I haven't posted in a while, so I thought I would share some of the things that have been idling in my sketchbook.

First, a few doodles done in a café, of the other folks about:

And some random scribblings, including a character I am considering making a comic strip about, and (oddly) John Constantine:

This came about while I was listening to "Silver Dagger", which is a folk song. The first verse is "O, don't sing love songs - you'll wake my mother. She's sleeping here, right by my side, and in her hand a silver dagger. She says that I can't be your bride." I'm thinking of maybe making a finished piece of this.

And, Daleks. Why? Because I watch too much Doctor Who. Whoops.

...I promise that I will photograph and post some finished images soon.

More Sketches

It's been a bit longer than I intended since I last posted on here, so here are a few sketches from the past couple of weeks:

I'm not sure yet if I will do anything in particular with this character, but she's popped up a few times recently. I've got to think about it.

This one was a girl I saw in a coffee shop the other day. Everyone else there was on their laptops - made them oddly easy to draw.

I might come back to this one soon. I like where it was going.

Elaborate skirts - surprisingly fun to draw, actually.

Sketch Dump #1

It has been a really long time since I last posted, so I'm afraid you'll all be subjected to some serious sketch dumping. First up is a few sketches from June:

Fort William Henry - Maine

coffee shop in Damariscotta - Maine

sketches from the Maine Maritime Museum

Bullard Tavern - Old Sturbridge Village, MA