Here are some of my drawings from life that I've done of people on the buss

These sketches reminded me of an artist I saw at The National Portrait Gallery called Humphrey Ocean. These are from his series 'A handbook of modern life'. This is an ongoing project where Ocean paints visitors to his studio. Like me he does these pieces quickly and he uses gouache as well, although his work is completely gouache and I only add it later.

 (Source: http://www.humphreyocean.com/docs/works/100portraits/thumbnails03.html)

There are quite a few similarities between the styles of our two projects. They both have a certain looseness and disproportion to them that show that they're from life. I think my work is slightly more controlled however as I draw in pen first as apposed to just painting like Ocean does. Something that I like about his work that I think I could improve in my work is how he gets a sense of individualism in each of his pieces. He catches certain details in how the people are positioned or in how they wear their clothes that gives them each a sense of their own identity. I don't think my work quite catches this enough as a lot of the people in my drawings seem the same as the others.