i may have blogged about this before, but a while back i came across an interview with billy childish where he talks about the theory of 'ruckenfigur' - compositions in which the viewer sees the figure from behind and is invited to share in the view that the subject sees.
it's relevant to a lot of these bus prints as i've inevitably ended up drawing that back of my fellow passenger's heads quite a bit.
that said, i've shied away from showing much that's going on outside the bus, probably because there's not a huge amount of dramatic landscape to draw between here and the city centre; often it's dark out when i'm travelling; also because the scenery flies past a bit quick to draw clearly; plus sometimes the windows are so steamed up and/or grimy that you can't see much through them anyway...
so this was an attempt to do something ruckenfigur-y. and i quite like it.
2 comments:
these are becoming very good mister! when does the series finish?, ie when have you completed the year of bus rides?
the year is up! :-)
but i still have about ten prints to make :-(
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