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| Evan Izer. Two Drug Addicts On The Subway After A Fix, 2013 Ink, gouache paint & crayon on laid paper |
Due to financial considerations, my "Sketchbook" website is down, so I thought I'd post some drawings here until I get things running again.
I used to love to draw pictures of people that I saw when riding the subway in New York City. My usual practice was to make the drawing in a small sketchbook as quickly and furtively as I could, using a mechanical pencil or sometimes an ink brush pen. I would later choose the best of these sketches and work them up in other media when I was back in my workshop.
I usually chose subjects based upon extremity of appearance— extreme beauty or extremity of another sort. The two people depicted in this drawing had the paralytic flush of people who just shot up. They remained like this— eyes rolling underneath closed eyelids, mouths gaping, slow-motion twitching— for the entirety of my 25-minute ride.
