Sitting on Harcourt Road in Admiralty with a pencil in hand, Luis Simoes starts sketching the scene before him in quick, rough strokes.
The 35-year-old Portuguese artist is a regular at the city's "umbrella movement" sites, where protesters, who are mostly students, have been camping out, demanding the public nomination of a candidate for the 2017 election of the chief executive.
Since hearing of the police using tear gas on demonstrators on September 28, Simoes has been wandering around the sites at Admiralty, Mong Kok and Causeway Bay, sketching events as they unfold in front of him.
"I see myself as a camera guy, without the camera but with a pencil and paper," says Simoes.
During the clashes in Mong Kok, he stood between protesters and police to capture the tension. He has no protective gear and he works with a sense of urgency.
"I need to work really fast in those situations, so I just do a raw sketch in one or two minutes," Simoes says.
