2 sketches of City Workers

In this kind of weather offices everywhere empty themselves onto any available green space ( or brown space, or even grey space ) at lunch time. Suit jackets get shrugged off, ties loosened, chicken wraps unwrapped.

I always envy people who get to wear smart clothes to work, although I know everyone who does would tell me I would hate it. To be certain that what you had on wouldn't be covered in paint, or plaster, ( or worse ) by the end of the day would be nice, just for once. I have never worn a tie to work in my life. 

City lunch sketch

From an old sketchbook.

Was on a location recce in the city, and whilst I waited for the rest of the group to turn up, sat in the square behind Liverpool street station, and watched the office workers spill out to sit in the sun for lunch. A free life drawing class.

I don't often seem to manage to sketch the whole pose, so was very pleased how this one turned out.

She was chatting with her friend, and eating a Pret-a-manger sandwich. I got the sense she didn't actually work in the city, and was just lunching with her friend, who did.