It has been a long and tiring week so far and I decided that I needed to withdraw for a little while. So I left campus early and went on a wander downtown. My goal? It is the last day of the worldwide Big Draw month of October (but see below*) aimed at raising awareness of drawing (you may have seen events in your own town – maybe even participated in some), and I’ve been so busy I’ve not done much outdoor on-location drawing this month (not counting subway drawing) and so I thought that I’d get one in on the last day. My own little contribution to the local Big Draw LA, if you will.
Anyway, I considered doing some well-celebrated landmark like one so many of the splendid buildings available (Union Station, Central Library, Eastern Building, Walt Disney Concert Hall…), and as I walked I pointed myself in the direction of some of these, but just after I turned away from the library on Fifth, heading to Pershing square, I saw what I wanted to draw. If you stay on 
Fifth just West of Hill, and look diagonally across Pershing square (you can see its tree tops in the sketch) you’ll see a lovely view of the two old KRKD radio towers, nicely framed by two middle ground buildings. See the photo. I sat for a little less than an hour and constructed the sketch in the fading warmth of the day**. It was a nice quiet way to spend some of Halloween.
-cvj
*Actually Big Draw runs through the 3rd November, presumably to include the weekend. More here.
**Rough pencil layout followed by 005 micron pen inking, for those who care. (I did not have my little set of watercolor pencils with me, so did not add any colours this time…)
