Expo Line Chain Lady

So I looked up from my notes and saw this striking person in a remarkable, and presumably deliberately forthright, amount of chain-based jewellery. She had a heavy looking gold chain that started from one ear and stretch over to the other, with the slack resting on her chest. She had wrist shackles of some sort that were in turn connected via chains to rings on her fingers. It was amazing. I was frozen, mesmerised. I was mostly thinking about all the ways one could accidentally snag those things on something as you walk by and…

Then I was thinking I ought to get a record of this to show… But it is rude to anonymously take a picture of someone… Then I remembered. I could draw her, that’s what I do – what was I thinking? So I got out my notebook and pen and with only one stop to go before getting off, managed to throw down onto the page the whole face and hair, and the suggestion of the chain. I wish I could have had time to get the hand things too. Then I strengthened some lines later and finished the chain. When I got home I added some colour in photoshop for fun…

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-cvj