Commuters

Artist: Rich Hinchcliffe
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Commuters

Ever get the feeling that everyone’s staring at you when you get on that bus to work every morning? Well, I did (before I shed the shackles of the day job and became a freelancer at least!) and that’s what inspired this painting – commuters on the top deck, always curious to see who’s entering their domain.

Commuters belongs to the following groups:

Cute-n-Creepy Illustrations, Designers United, Illustration - Artwork for narrative content and Mixed Media

tomg, 8 months ago

Love it, great imagination …
Dawnsky2, 8 months ago

Cool, this is spooky and a bit funny too, its the one at the back, poking its head out, great image,:)
julian kimmings, 8 months ago

truly great image – reminds me a bit of the spirits from Spirited Away – I love your style!
Steven Sandner, 8 months ago

Awesome work!
cassandrarose, 8 months ago

fantastic work.
Rich Hinchcliffe, 8 months ago

Thanks everyone!

Julian – I’m a huge Studio Ghibli fan, so I won’t deny that Hayao Miyazaki’s simplistic style for some of his characters migth have influenced the spooky commuters a little :)
NuCLEAR, 8 months ago

ever seen phantasm?
don quackenbush, 8 months ago

i have to agree wight Dawnsky, it is cool and really appropriate for the end of a longggggg monday.
frozenfa, 8 months ago

Kyuuuu!! This is So CuTE!! and scary.. hehe.. love it! =D
Natalie Tyler, 7 months ago

This is fantastic. Instant favourite!
pinkyjain, 7 months ago

This is waaaaaay cool & awesome
Lorraine Creagh, 7 months ago

This is fantastic. Love it. Instant fav…
Jeremy Harrington, 7 months ago

this is awesome.. great piece Rich
Zaldy Infante, 7 months ago

great visual storytelling!
nigelnash, 7 months ago

great work
Rosalie Dale IPA, 7 months ago

So clever – certainly does hold the attention.
BengLim, 7 months ago

cool!!
marlaakajake, 7 months ago

your contrast of the light reflection from the windows is nice. and seeing the building images show through..this is a haunting painting. you should do more of them.
Glenn-Patrick ..., 7 months ago

EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!
JakkiO, 7 months ago

Feel like this even more now I freelance! Lol …Need to get out more :D
Just fantasticly portrayed, really good stuff.
bchrisdesigns, 7 months ago

oooooh…..creepy!
coffeebean, 7 months ago

Great image, well done, very intriguing work, love it.
Specular, 7 months ago

Wow! fantastic image Rich, love the perspective, the colour, everything really. was in Harrogate this weekend past as one of my housemates is from there, great place. All the best with your freelance work :)
satsumagirl, 7 months ago

This is great. It reminds me of the Japanese animation “Spirited Away” by Hayao Miyazaki.
hingo, 7 months ago

Fantastic. Great style
adamjohnston, 7 months ago

Don’t know why, but apart from being a great image, for me the last “out of focus” eyes nearest the viewer really makes this cool.
Aurora Pintore, 7 months ago

I like this very much !!!!!
Roddy Atkinson, 7 months ago

A truly stunning piece of art, love it!
ericseyes, 7 months ago

This is intense, I love it, shadows with no substance, eyes without a face, so many thoughts come to mind!
Kevin Williams, 7 months ago

Very cool. I would be really creeped out if this were a photo. :)
Jonicool, 7 months ago

awesome work!
Alan Rodmell, 7 months ago

Excellent work. Very imaginative. I love the last few chairs? Leaning out into the aisle. Spooky
margaretfraser, 7 months ago

great imagination
Paul Louis Vil..., 7 months ago

That’s fantastic! Love your imagination! :D
justimagine, 7 months ago

Brilliant work!
Richard Murch, 7 months ago

.. Great work .. I know the feeling….
Marie Magnusson, 7 months ago

brilliant and scary!
Josie Jackson, 7 months ago

Wow! you have a fantastic imagination and I love it, colours are fabulous, and it is a bit “spooky”, don’t think I want to get on a bus again…...
Elné Burgers, 7 months ago

This is excellent!
Nico Cham, 7 months ago

wow, this is amazing, love it
April Cowan, 7 months ago

I understand this completely – on my way to uni, i have to go via train and bus, and generally i’m carrying two canvases, a bag full of paints, a roll of paper and a box for my sculpture stuff. Imust admit, it would have to be rather comical (i’m pretty short, and loaded up with all that stuff i must look like a miniture pack-horse) but.. well, all the people staring does create a rather foreboding atmosphere. and that, you have captured perfectly in this piece. Whether it be in the shapeless figures themselves, or in the eery use of light, the atmosphere isperfect in this. well done.
Velter, 7 months ago

I like it. Colours, light, comp. all very nice. You even blurred the first commuter on the right …Very clever.
kreesor, 7 months ago

I know how this is. I always just hope I can sit down so I can read. Plus I always listen to my MP3 player so I don’t have to listen to the inane babbling around me. Great work.
Cathryn Swanson, 7 months ago

Ha, great image, very clever.
kimbaross, 7 months ago

This is just so brilliant!
vanillabean, 7 months ago

wow, very impressive keep up the good work,
and yes i get that feeling often lol
John Violet, 7 months ago

Love it
red addiction, 7 months ago

wooooo!
LaFleureRouge, 7 months ago

Wonderful idea awesome image Bravo!
Michelle Whelan, 7 months ago

i love it, i want to take it home and freak every one out with it
Joyce Dickens,..., 7 months ago

Awesome work!
Adrian Rachele, 7 months ago

You really have to have these buses to get the story. There is just something about that top deck and your dead right. Great work.
midzing, 7 months ago

fantastic imagery,,, well done
SNik, 7 months ago

stunning!
Roland Schicht, 7 months ago

Love it… a similar image is brewing in my mind
Daniel Rarela, 7 months ago

oooouuuuuu this is creepy, for sure…. and the bent effect of the bus just makes everything more jarring

wonderful stuff, Rich!!!
bree787, 7 months ago

This is fantastic!! the eyes are really creepy, which makes it all the more great!~
jaywalker, 7 months ago

Wuh . . . I have been missing out. This is so stirring!
Magda Beda, 7 months ago

THIS IS SO SICK! JAYWALKER showed me this. O-mgosh! i love it!
muahahaha, it’s an awsome painting. GWAH fantastic!!! unlimited praise! deserved! sweet stuff.
pehpsi2, 6 months ago

Totally bloody awesome!!

I’ve self-diagnosed myself with Generalised Social Anxiety Disorder, and this piece speaks volumes to me..
zee1, 6 months ago

spooky cool
Robert O'Neill, 6 months ago

Absolutely brilliant.
Scott Berry, 6 months ago

thatis awsome piece of work, love it. so cool
Damian, 4 months ago

LOL, that’s brilliant :)
Cool concept, and that’s great the way you’ve done it!
Pavlina, 3 months ago

great work
olwen Fisher, 3 months ago

Absolutely amazing piece. It really captures how i feel when commuting in the morning!
pashbandit, 2 months ago

I’ll never be able to get on a bus quite the same after seeing this… I am bound to giggle. Love it :)
Michelle Dewis, 2 months ago

this is great. I’m sure i’ve seen this exact image when i’ve walked onto a bus. Just for a split second, until “reality” sets back in.

Great work.
Ramace, 2 months ago

Awesome image grouse
mikegood, 2 months ago

Sweet!
Richard Allen, 2 months ago

Great image and so well executed
Elana Bailey, 2 months ago

Absolutely fantastic and so very true.
khosie, 2 months ago

Awesome :O)
nonentia, 2 months ago

perfect capture of that feeling – faceless and nameless yet too damn curious. great piece!
iamanartist, 2 months ago

usually hate photoshopped stuff like this, but i really like this one for some reason…and a great representation of modern life
eddiepark, 2 months ago

Great work!
BlindVision, 2 months ago

Great piece of work! Modern day uncomfortable connection we all have with other commuters!!
BJChambers, 2 months ago

This is a great and original piece of work.
Konstantins Vi..., 2 months ago

Nice!
JoAnnHayden, 2 months ago

ooooh how scarey, great picture for halloween!!
andapanda, 2 months ago

oh so awesome! it’s totally my morning commute… mucho praise!
SandraHewlett, 2 months ago

Kinda creepy but i like it, it took me a while to see the ‘figures’ at first i thought they were just empty seats – ok i know im a bit slow.
Maria Murphy, 2 months ago

Awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats my kinda bus !!!
DavidBaddeley, 2 months ago

Looks like a wet Thursday evening
Torrechiara, 2 months ago

Outstanding work. Very creepy and it feels almost 3 dimensional. Very well done.
Bradley Hartman, 2 months ago

I love this. The simplicity is grabbing in its effect making you feel the loneliness of the commuters as well as their search for hope. At least this is what I get from it. They watch each and every new commuter that gets on hoping to find a humanity lost in time. This is a great piece!
Sortvind, 2 months ago

words can not describe how much i like this piece.
JJDegrade, 2 months ago

This is my morning bus!!!!
Excellent.
Neil MacPhail, 2 months ago

this is great! I like how the stucture of the bus seems to be leaning in too. Great!
magnus88, 2 months ago

Fanfanfantastic!!!!
Alistair Wilson, 2 months ago

terrific stuff
L K Southward, 2 months ago

this really caught my attention straight away, very unusual but meaningful image..well done!
Christian Zammit, 23 days ago

congratulation on your sale!!!!!
Well done!!

Regards,
Christian Zammit
berndt2, 19 days ago

Very ominous and very cool!!
Enrico Bettesw..., 19 days ago

This is so awesome! everything has already been said, I just had to fav this… your control of the medium shows true craftsmanship… well done!
CinB, 19 days ago

fantastic image love it. I know that feeling all to well!
i think i took the bus with these people the other morning! lol
BOBBYBABE, 19 days ago

I love it!
MATTHEW PAAS, 19 days ago

bad ass
Linda Morrison, 19 days ago

All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me! Lyrics from Freaks by Fish.
Great image.Congrats on home page.
Eduardo Gómez ..., 18 days ago

yep, but i knew they were actually watching and talking about me

it was really weird because they were so unknown to me and the aunt told her niece to flirt with me, oh oh!
David Logan Mo..., 18 days ago

Great piece. But it’s enough to make me paranoid just looking at it. : )
Allison Lane, 18 days ago

Very cool image, you can feel the mood loud and clear
PPPhotoArt, 18 days ago

absolutely wonderful work!!!! well done nad congrats on home page
bensound, 18 days ago

Great work, fantastic.
Steven Lee, 18 days ago

Marvelous stuff.
zomboy, 18 days ago

absolutely spooky – the faceless commuters! so true!!
Andromedae, 18 days ago

Brilliant work! everyone sees a different story in the same image! I didn’t even think of a bus until I read a description, more like aliens or ghosts, which the commuters really are for each other. Great!
twinravens, 18 days ago

Looks about right! Great concept!
Sam Clarke, 15 days ago

wow! looks great i like it !!
Meike, 13 days ago

lol. How true is that!! Straight to the favorites!
Alan Hogan, 12 days ago

Reminds me of the early morning bus I used to get into Dublin city a fews years ago. Full of zombies! And it always had the odd couple of menacing characters sitting on the back seats upstairs. You’ve captured that mood. Nice image, if a little eerie.