after getting my new job and before getting my new apartment i was commuting from salem, massachusetts into work in boston. i got to ride a train twice a day along with the subway and a couple miles of walking, but the highlight was surely the train ride. i would sketch the people on the train, or read about how to layout a newspaper (as it's one of my duties as the ad and layout designer at the newspaper). this one happened to be the one-thirty-eight to boston from salem on the first of october. it actually happened to be my day off and i was going into to boston to look at apartments.

after really committing to this style i've fallen in love with it. i'm getting very quick with it and can sketch in illustrator now without even a pencil sketch to work from. and it's so much fun. it really is just like i sketch, too. i hardly use definitive lines in pencil and i draw with a mechanical pencil so i often use two or three lines of the same width to shape a line's weight and variation. i really enjoy doing that with illustrator.