In the 1900s, the ragtime style of music was named so because composers wrote their music not on full sheets of paper but on "rags" or whatever scraps of paper they had in their pockets. That's how I feel sometimes but with drawing. I'll draw on receipts, wrappers, sticky notes, you name it. Drawing in school was always fun because it looks like you're paying attention and taking notes, when in reality you're drawing the teacher! The first picture is from my senior year of high school, 2013, during English class. The girl had no idea I was drawing her and neither did the teacher. We were supposed to be discussing this novel.
I think this portrait is also from senior year, of my student teacher from AP government and history class. Or I think it was actually my economics class because I remember saying, "Blue Horseshoe loves Anacott Steel," and he knew what I was talking about.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, psychology.
Teachers were good to draw because they were often old and had faces full of character. But sometimes I would draw students too!
This picture is of a girl who was always confused during math class, so she constantly had this expression on her face.
This is a rare ink drawing of mine. Oh, this kid was a character. He would say the most ridiculous things sometimes.
Sadam and his friend,
George.
I drew this picture of my grandpa on a napkin at a restaurant.
One theme I liked, and even collected from others, was the students in from of you. This one is from the kid who sat next to me.
The top two are from my friend. The first one he said he couldn't draw the head but by the time he gave me the second one his skills had improved. The bottom one is my own from my first year of college, and it continues below.
The next one is also from that same year. Behold: A Boy Called Sterling
The last one, Perez, is the most recent. Drawn almost exactly 5 years ago. He is the dad of this girl I liked at this restaurant we all used to work at. It was fun to mess around with him.
All these snippets are collected in a scrapbook made from my assignment journal where I would write down due dates for homework and stuff in high school. It's not even nearly full. I should still continue to add to it, don't you think?