Feeling awful? Have a falafel!

        

I was drawn to this food van because of the bright yellow colors, which I'll add later. But here's the version I drew in Georgetown, not far from the trailer park mall, where I've drawn before.



Donna, I'm sure, would have preferred to draw the beautiful gardens but patiently indulged my desire to draw geometry. After all this time, I still haven't figured out a satisfying way to render all those leaves and delicate petals with my chunky, cartoony outlines. I can't see the trees for the leaves. But rivets and two-by-fours? Bring 'em on.

Fremont again, this time facing east.

I tried to draw this scene several years ago but was overwhelmed by the detail and didn't like the finished drawing. Since then, I've learned how to reduce a scene in my minds eye into simple geometric shapes. The bigger obstacle was the constant traffic- frequent buses stopping right in front of me- and the noise, not just the traffic but the crashing from inside the Tawon Thai restaurant as they demolished its interior. But I stuck with it, partly inspired by the successful outing with the USk on Sunday, and partly determined to not let the scene defeat me and redraw the picture I failed at before.