Sketchcrawl at Union Station

Today was the 32nd World Wide Sketchcrawl, and the D.C. sketchers met indoors at Union Station to stay out of the heat. I spent most of the morning focusing on the architecture, which I really enjoyed. But in the afternoon, I switched to drawing innocent bystanders:

DC Sketchers @ Union Station

DC Sketchers met in the main concourse of DC's Union Station on Saturday morning, 12/18/2010. The historic interior was decorated for Christmas with lots of people scurrying across, catching their departing trains.

We made ourselves comfortable in the lobby's seating, practiced composing with our viewfinders, selected views and quickly created several smaller drawings. We learned how sighting/measuring techniques can help to see and draw proportional relationships to create perspective drawings.