Still going to surgeries and sketching.
Still having way too much fun sketching surgeons instead of surgical procedures.
I think I've gone through about 8 different methods/media for sketching so far, involving various combinations of marker, pen, 2H pencil, ebony pencil, and red & tan colored pencils.
Just for fun: brain surgery!
It really wasn't that exciting to watch, and I didn't get a lot of sketches, but every time I considered leaving, I thought, "Dude. BRAIN SURGERY." And that was that.
[10% cool gray Prismacolor marker, Faber-Castell brush pen, 2H pencil, ebony pencil]
9.06.2009
surgeries (again)
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Do you get to choose which surgeries you go to, or did you just "luck out"? I don't suppose you get to keep a piece of the brain as a souvenir or anything.
ReplyDeleteIt's not surprising you'd get more sketches of surgeons than procedures. Even though the doctors are moving around, at least they are still recognizably them (more or less) the whole way through. Pieces of patient may get opened up, stuff taken out or moved around, then closed again. And the stuff could be very small and intricate. I would imagine it puts a premium on one's ability to commit visual details to memory quickly. And preferably to commit those to paper quickly as well. (It sounds hard to me.)
We're choosing which surgeries we get to go to. A schedule is sometimes available beforehand, but generally, I've been trying to show up around 8-8:30 and see "so what's going on right now?"
ReplyDelete(There are 3 widescreen monitors with this information, much like the arrival/departure monitors for airports.)
For our first assignment, we're just sketching. We're not trying to capture the story at this point. And the instructors keep telling us to slow down and focus on the open incision with retractors (or anything else that's not moving for a minute or two).
Unfortunately, we have a scavenger hunt list to fufill. (Two incisions, two sutures, three retractions, three forms of hemostasis, etc.) And a lot of the stuff on the list just doesn't naturally hold still.
The portraits are, for me, something I can always see (it's often difficult to see the actual surgery--darn surgeons' shoulders) and a way to make myself feel better about the fact the vast majority of my sketches aren't recognizable. I've showed the procedure sketches to my instructors (and, grudgingly, to surgeons at their request), and everyone's reactions are generally along the lines of "Uhhhhhm.... wellllll......."
"See," says I, "that's a chin, and that's... um... well I've labeled it as an ear, so... the patient's facing upwards... and that's the incision across the neck... do you see?"
Yeah, so, portraits. ::double thumbs-up::
You should throw some red splattered paint on those sketches. Really would add to the whole, 'bloody surgery' thing.
ReplyDeleteRB- That's what the red colored pencil is for. Guess I should post some of those ones.
ReplyDeleteDUH!
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