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November saw the nights draw in on my commute home, restricting observational drawing to my reflection and that of those across the aisle from me. As much as I like to try the patience of my audience, I thought I’d save you from a month’s worth of doom-scrolling portraiture. So, I was scratching around for something creative to do whilst cocooned in a humid metal tube barrelling across South Yorkshire and to kick my own screen-based addictions. To this end, I took the drawings I’d made on my morning commute, cut them up on my lunch break, then arranged them into collages of my fellow commuters. I’d place an orange background on the train table, then get busy with the play. A great way to keep a table to oneself. Elsewhere in this issue are the fruits of a two-day reportage workshop with my Level four students, in the grounds of Western Park Hall, Sheffield, an experiment in following the line of a goal kick in my local park repeatedly (which, despite many a back and forth, may not go anywhere), and a smattering of the more workaday observational fayre. Thanks for reading. Oliver East
Reportage workshop with Level 4 Illustration students. Western Park, Sheffield
Drunken future rambler on the train. Edale
Perform a goal kick then draw whilst retrieving it. Repeat. Seymour Park, Old Trafford.
Reportage workshop with Level 4 Illustration students. Western Park, Sheffield
West Didsbury and Chorlton FC v Ecclestown. Chorlton Ees.
Reportage workshop with Level 4 Illustration students. Western Park, Sheffield
Commuter Collages. Various trains from Sheffield to Manchester Piccadilly
Morton Lab and Wright Robinson Hall. UMIST, Manchester
. Digitising my dyslexic declarations.
Reportage workshop with Level 4 Illustration students. Western Park, Sheffield