Keeping in the spirit of the last thing I put on this blog, here's a drawing I did on the train about a month ago of a woman who was listening to an iPod.
Or maybe it was an iPhone.
Or I guess it could've actually been a cassette player, all I really know is she had those white headphones in her ears. It's possible they weren't even plugged into anything.
and here's the drawing
I wasn't really concentrating when I drew it, which isn't to say it would be any better if I had been, but I just mean I was never planning on showing it to her.
When we both got off at the same stop though and were walking side by side I decided I would show her, and I'm really glad I did.
Here she is writing her email address onto a newspaper so that I could send her a copy of the drawing.
She was very enthusiastic. She said it meant a lot to her and that she was really flattered.
Of course I was much more flattered than she was; reactions as positive as hers don't come about too often.
Understandably too I think. I probably wouldn't want some creep on the train drawing me.
But she liked it, and I think that's great.
I'm pretty lucky to have met her really, she was such an amazing woman*, whether her headphones had been plugged in or not.
*Obviously no where near as amazing a woman as my girlfriend of course, (in case my girlfriend happens to be reading this). Or my mum. Or Tracey Chapman.