"Travel writing"

If you're travelling on the London underground and see someone hunched over a small sketchbook, pointlessly drawing line after line - that's probably me. I have been doing a lot of "travel writing" - letting the bumps and jolts of the train tell the story of the journey. Here's a selection of sketchbook pages (click to enlarge) -Sometimes the journey takes one page, sometimes two - of course it also depends on how quickly the lines are drawn, and how close together they are. Sometimes I make different kinds of marks when the train is stopped in a station. Many variations are possible -
Here are some of my favourites. An early example -
A lighter pressure. The straighter lines are when the train is stopped -
Finsbury Park to Holborn, my most frequent journey these days. Note the speeding up at the end to try to fill the page -
A change of pen made quite a different - usually I use a fountain pen, but this felt tip just bounced along the page -
Must get a brush-tip pen and see what happens....