The best thing about feeling good about some past drawings are then doing the next ones that end up sucking cause you were a lil too full of yourself. Take yourself down a peg or two and keep focused on the thin line between a decent drawing and utter crap…

Really been digging this bridge for years, ever since first driving over it in the 90s. There was a time i took the train under it everyday, since then i managed to find the park on the Manhattan side and walked under it. I wanted to get a better angle, but as a i say below I lazed out on the full walk and stopped at a bench further away then i would have like in retrospect…

I should have scanned the initial sketch, but i was kind of rough. Not to accustom to drawing foliage i did some quick and sparse blocking in of various foliage shapes. To avoid a lot of pen build up i also did some rough and quick colored pencil blocking to help me decipher the shapes and colors and their spacial relations (although many areas compressed themselves).

Henry Hudson Bridge

Henry Hudson Bridge 1

Named in honor of Henry Hudson, the explorer whose ship, the Half Moon, anchored near this site in 1609, this bridge opened in 1936. It connects northern Manhattan to the Bronx and was built as part of the Henry Hudson Parkway by the Henry Hudson Parkway Authority. When it opened, it was the longest plate girder arch and fixed arch bridge in the world. Originally built with only one level, the bridge’s design allowed for the construction of a second level if traffic demands increased. Within a year and a half the upper level was opened.

-http://www.mta.info/bandt/html/henry.htm

Henry Hudson Bridge 2

• http://www.nycroads.com/roads/west-side/
• http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/henry-hudson/
  There’s an image here closer to what i want to get, but i stopped a few benches too soon. There was a chance the music would stop and id be left with no bench so i sat early. Next time ill venture closer…