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This stylish grandma and young lady were drawn from inside the bus as I waited for it to leave.

So she couldn’t see me carefully noting the details of her all-black outfit. It was one of those very gray Berlin days, but not very cold.

This grandpa and his little bud were so cute.

I drew them mostly from a memory snapshot, since it would be creepy to keep looking over at a little kid. You can see I’m not very good at drawing Minions.

Phone people never notice me drawing them.

So it’s too bad for them if they don’t want the interesting angles of their limbs recorded for posterity.

You can see previous unterwegs here:

Here’s some of the drawings I’ve made while travelling about Berlin this month.

In Berlin, where dogs are allowed on the subway at all times, dogs understand about missing or catching the train. They actually hustle to get to the doors before they close. Which I find just amazing.

There are maps on the ceiling of the subway cars, which is sensible!

I am doing so much experimenting with tone, pattern and value areas in these unterwegs. They are my safe space to expand my style and way of documenting things.

This drawing was made from a quick mental snapshot.

I glimpsed this woman wearing the HELL out of a jersey wrap dress, with great hair style, as she hustled for the M10 in Friedrichshain. I was going to the U1, and I got on the train and then realized I had no pencil or even a ballpoint for the sketch I usually do before putting down ink. However I did have a white conte crayon stick and I used that to quickly rough in the gesture and forms. You can see the faint traces of white lines if you look carefully. I could have pimped it up later with background and tone and white highlights, but I just liked the simple lines so much.

You can see previous unterweg drawings here: