surgery! for realz yo!

A small part of the reason I've been doing all these sloppy sketches lately is 'cos I'm taking Surgical Illustration this semester, which has been summarized as "visual notetaking." Basically, you go hang out in an operating room during a surgery and sketch.

I've never done this before, and I probably know [as much as]/[less than] any of my readers know about operating room procedures.

In the above sketch, the surgeon was looking through a giant microscope (covered in clear plastic wrap... for sterility?) to see what he was doing; everything he could see through the microscope was projected on a TV in the front of the room. We had to wear lead aprons to go watch that one, 'cos they were shooting x-rays the whole time (for added visualization--it was a very tiny and difficult-to-access tumor. incidentally, the big ring-shaped/sideways-headphone-shaped contraption with fabric draped over it--if you can figure that out, 'cos my sketch is pretty messy--is for shooting said x-rays. I think. maybe.).



This one was a more standard/traditional surgery. (The surgeon is wearing a face shield.)

You're supposed to be sketching the SURGERY itself from the surgeon's perspective, but most of my procedure shots... well... could use some improvement. I am no expert; there's a reason I'm taking the class.

These were probably 1-5 minute sketches. Keep in mind that EVERYTHING IS MOVING while you're trying to draw.


[Prismacolor 10% cool gray marker, Faber-Castell brush marker, and 05 Micron pen]