With a week to go till the end of her contract, Ashley recommended a new place to wait as she finishes up her shifts\u00a0at the hospital –\u00a0a lobby up on the 4th floor which\u00a0overlooks the main entrance and the helicopter landing pad.<\/p>\n

I was only able to make it up there twice for a sketching session. Both times I opted to draw the same view, focusing on the helicopter.<\/p>\n

Here’s the first sketch, in pencil and then finished with ink and marker:<\/p>\n

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After the fact, I realized that I spent too much time worrying about the dimensions of different components (which didn’t turn out accurate anyway!) and ended up with a stiff drawing. No sense of flow, no energy or life. Plus, if you don’t already have an image of the area in mind, it’s a bit hard to visualize.<\/p>\n

So my focus on the second drawing was to capture more of the area and loosen up a bit.<\/p>\n

Again, here’s the pencil sketch and then the finished ink and marker version. (It’s all one image, I simply do a quick sketch in pencil then ink over top of it, erase the graphite, and then add shadows with the marker.)<\/p>\n

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I think that this was a much more successful\u00a0sketch –\u00a0with everything fitting together better and\u00a0giving a fuller representation of the view that I saw.<\/p>\n

The second was drawn on Ashley’s last shift, so there won’t be any more hospital sketches<\/a> at Cape Fear Valley. Horray for more adventures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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