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BART is not your most reliable choice in public transportation, but you do see some interesting people while riding their trains.  Yesterday, one platform was closed as it usually is on Sundays, but then they opened it up and had everyone go down the stairs and back up the other side to catch the SFO/Millbrae train that was 10 minutes late.

I wanted to pass out like this guy during the ride home on the last train last night, but there was drawing to be done!

This girl sat opposite another pretty brunette who looked familiar, but it was probably just that art school/hipster look (with short bangs) that I remember from college days.

Just glad that I posted something like I said I would.  Now, I just have to start drawing again every day.

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Here We Go Again

I had written this longer post saying this and that about this blog hovering in limbo for too long, but here’s the more concise post.

This blog will reopen on

08.09.10.

That’s Monday, August 9, 2010 for those of you in countries that use the DD/MM/YY format.  It’s even more confusing because this WordPress theme displays the date as YYYY MM DD above/next to the blog post title. Just spent a good 10 minutes adjusting the theme so the date reads the same way in every instance.  I’m sure someone else could have fixed it in a couple of minutes, but I don’t know my way around css or html or whatever you call it, so there’s probably some page here that displays the date in a way I didn’t intend.  Wait.  Wasn’t this “concise” post about sharing drawings and sketches again?

I’ll post something before Monday to warm up.  I haven’t been drawing regularly for quite some time now, so it’ll be interesting to see how rusty the ol’ drawing hand is.  I might as well teach myself how to draw with my left because it has been so long.

Sat Still For Once

I haven’t had much luck with people sitting still on BART long enough for me to draw them, but this lady was very into the book she was reading.

This could be the month that I start drawing and painting and posting regularly here again, but who knows.   I’ve been letting work and some of the people there stress me out a little, and the rest of my routine usually consists of getting home from BART and then relaxing by watching some of The Office by streaming it on the Wii (great because trying to watch on my old desktop computer sucks).  Then I wake up without much time before I have to commute again.  This obviously doesn’t leave me enough time to draw, paint, exercise, read culinary material, read/buy comics, visit with family and friends, etc.

So even though I only have one night off this week, I made a point to have lunch with some classmates in Oakland Chinatown, get some exercise with the guys, make a frittata with some pork and leeks, and now put up something on this neglected blog.

To sum up: I’d like to see Iron Man 2 as soon as my schedule allows.  Good night.

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Finally Opened My Sketchbook Again

Rusty.  It felt good to sit in the cafeteria and draw a little bit before class.

I know I’ve been saying that I’d start posting here again, but below are the first sketches in months, maybe since September of last year.

I think I may have color corrected the yellow out of these Moleskin pages, so I’ll try not to do that next time.

New Blog Name?

For those of you still waiting for this to re-open, it’s looking more like it’ll be December 1, 2009 which is a lot later than the dates mentioned below.

You probably think I’m some kind of slacker, but there have been some interesting developments lately that have put this art blog on hold.  I didn’t want it that way, but that’s the way life goes sometimes.  I was going to include the address of my semi-secret blog to keep you busy in the meantime, but you don’t need to bother reading all those posts about insomnia, cooking, mystical dragons, not going to Comic-Con, culinary classes, going to bars, internet tidbits, jumping on yachts with strange women, waiting too long to buy comic books, learning how to read, etc.  Just keep checking here to see examples of what happens when you neglect drawing and painting for months.

The current name of this blog may or may not stick, but I found it appropriate with the insomnia of late.  You have to admit it’s a lot better than :{ which was supposed to be me with a mustache that I’ll never grow.

Temporarily Closed

I’m making changes to this blog and doing some housekeeping on the server that may result in me deleting all previous posts.  It will reopen soon.  Maybe 9-9-09, but there’s that movie 9 opening that day, so probably not that date.  Maybe the first day of Autumn which is 9-22-09.

Thanks to those who have been checking in, and a big thanks to those who have left comments.

I’m sure most of you have plenty to read in your newsreaders, so until the next post…