Crowded Bus Ride
Crowded Bus Ride, 2005
19″ x 25″ Pastel on Paper
My illustration friday entry for this week’s theme crowded.
One of my favorite theme as I made water color and a study drawing previously. I really hate the feeling of being crowded with so many people. This work is based on personal experience; I rode the bus everyday when I was in the Philippines. Being in a crowded bus was bad, being in a crowded bus in traffic was worse… then being in a crowded bus when it was raining/flooding was the worst commute experience ever for me.
I like your “Crowded” very much. Nice colours.
This is really beautiful! I love the colors and the vibrant nature of your painting. I understand that feeling of being crowded in a bus too! So many rides to school as a young person were spent on the bus…although, it wasn’t that bad really. I got to know a lot of people…good and bad.
nice ! works really well, like seeing how you evolved to this final version, each adjustment worked to communicate more and more the crowded, jostled feeling of riding a bus !
I think this is fabulous and would make a lovely greeting card or picture in a book!!! I can see you doing rainforest animals with those eyes as well for some reason!
this is fantastic. It really conveys the mood wonderfully. I can remember a time I took public transit and everyone’s faces seemed very blank. No one wanted to make eye contact even though there bodies were pressed together.
great job!
~paige
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Great illustration. I love the colors. Nice!
That’s one of the philippines existing problem.
Nice painting. I know the feeling…
nice image. crowded public transportation makes me germ phobic!!
wow. i love this one. i love the colors and the movements inside it. i love your blog, link kita ha. ^_^
I love this picture. Can I buy it? How?
This illustrastion is wonderful. It reminds me somehow of The Scream (Edvard Munch). Perhaps because it has the same worrying sentiment and similar colours.
Diong,
ayos ito. brings back memories for me also. i used to commute from los banos to makati everyday at medyo mahirap nga talaga kapag umuulan pa.
-kyo-
Diong, Wow! I like the emphasis of color red and orange and yellow mixed together to show the overall mood of your painting. I use the MRT to travel from North Station to Ayala Makati and the experience is really not good nonetheless MRT helps me get rid of the bad traffic regardless of the day. I guess one just need to learn to live by it and appreciate the positive side of it.