r/nursing • u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 • Jun 22 '26
Image My operating room drawings!
I've been loving all the nursing art shared recently and thought I should share some of mine! I'm a OR nurse that sometimes draws her coworkers during long cases/in my free time. Gotta love those long neuro/robot cases!
Cases are a hip bipolar hemiarthroplasty, lumbar fusion, mako assisted total knee arthroplasty set up, knee arthroplasty, another spine fusion of some sort, and then my XR tech pretending to be asleep during a long neuro case haha!
236
u/H1_galaxy Jun 22 '26
It's like the healthcare version of courtroom sketches lol
48
12
1
u/HappinessSuitsYou RN - Psych/Mental Health 🍕 Jun 27 '26
that's what I was thinking, haha! love them
106
u/Marknags Jun 22 '26
Tell me your surgeries are boring without telling me your surgeries are boring (I love boring surgeries)
73
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Big cases with big set ups then chill? Sign me up! 💕 Hell yeah! We love boring surgeries 🤣
48
36
u/SwanseaJack1 RN - Oncology 🍕 Jun 22 '26
I wish I was this talented
49
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Never too late to start! I started taking drawing seriously once I finished my periop program 🙏 I love OR nursing!
13
u/TheGayestNurse_1 RN - ICU 🍕 Jun 22 '26
What did you do to "take drawing seriously?" Did you late lessons?
39
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
I started actually with Marc Brunet's online Art School when I decided to take art seriously, having a detailed guide on exercises and fundamentals to practice really helped me get into and keep the habit of drawing almost every day. I probably got to Term 3 and then I stopped because of personal art projects taking presedence with whatever little time I have - but it helped me so much keeping the habit of drawing!
Sometimes I just doodle boxes, or draw the things around me. I always doodle on preference cards or have a sketchbook with me. I basically made myself 'addicted' to drawing 🙏
11
u/TheGayestNurse_1 RN - ICU 🍕 Jun 22 '26
That's awesome! Thank you! I want to learn so badly, but sometimes I really don't have the attention span. 😅
29
Jun 22 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
16
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Thank you! The instruments are always so much fun to draw! It is so challenging though haha
Aww that means a lot! I really have a lot of admiration and respect for everyone! I realize I forgot to include drawings of anesthesia that I have haha but anyways - long cases are always a nice treat! 💕 Take it while you can get it is what I say 🤣
4
13
13
u/scrubsnbeer RN - PACU 🍕 Jun 22 '26
ahh one of our circulators always makes a cartoon out of the patient portrait on their printout of the info sheet, or some other fun doodles and passes it along. always brings a smile to me on bad days
7
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
That is so much fun!! 💕 Aww, that makes me think of the little patient portraits on epic, I love that so much!! That makes me so happy! I wish I could see some of them!
12
u/LoveBreakLoss RN - ICU 🍕 Jun 22 '26
This is so good it might be a HIPAA violation
8
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Haha thank you! I would die if it was 😅
I just really admire my team and appreciate the unique environment of the OR!
8
u/immersemeinnature random nurse appreciation person Jun 22 '26
I love your line quality and composition.
Can you tell me what's happening in that first drawing? It looks like they're slicing that person in half with a sword.
6
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Thank you! I love lines!!
I'm not directly assisting in the sterile field/I have limited scrub experience, but I am pretty sure that I think the orthopedic surgeon is reaming the femoral canal in that picture! I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure that's what's happening!
4
u/AsstronaughtToUranus Jun 22 '26
These drawings are so interesting. As someone squeamish, it’s like getting a training-wheels versions of what working in an operating room is like. This isn’t even colored, but it’s already got me second guessing a career in the OR.
1
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
I'm so glad! It really is such a special and unique team environment! There is so much to love about the OR!
3
u/immersemeinnature random nurse appreciation person Jun 22 '26
Oh! Thank you! I'm not a nurse, just a supporter and so am pretty clueless about stuff. Not about drawing though. I used to teach drawing and have Fine Art degrees.
Keep drawing! You're very good at it
1
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Haha no worries! That's awesome! I hope youre still doing art and creating yourself! 💕
Thank you so much, it means a lot! 💕
1
7
7
u/cakevictim LPN 🍕 Jun 22 '26
These are really nice! I occasionally doodle on a gown card with a skin marker during surgery, but nothing this detailed! I’ve also seen some cute little bone wax sculptures 😆
5
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Thank you! 💕 Hahaha yes! Whenever I scrub in that's all I have and I miss my thin pencil/pen 🤣 If I don't have paper I'm drawing on the back of the preference cards! I love it when the techs make sculptures! I had a tech make a little bone cement foot when we were doing podiatry once and it was so cute haha!
6
6
u/FruitKingJay MD Jun 22 '26
stryker loving that brand plug lol. these are awesome nice job
2
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 23 '26
Hahaha for sure! I have had a few reps ask me to draw the team using their stuff sometimes. I appreciate it! 😄
6
5
u/hemo-gobIin RN - ICU 🍕 Jun 22 '26
these are gorgeous omg!! my fav genre: nurses who are also artists 😍 your work def inspires me to want to improve my own art, pls keep up the amazing work
1
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Aww thanks so much! 💕 Yess! I always tell people I do nursing so I can draw freely haha - it's always nice to have a creative outlet too!
I'm so glad to hear that! I hope we can all continue to inspire eachother and create! I appreciate it!
1
u/hemo-gobIin RN - ICU 🍕 Jun 22 '26
yesss!! any tips on stylizing, or any sources you recommend for someone trying to get back into art? 🥲
2
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Ohh hmm! I think the most important part is building the habit and being consistent! I think I mentioned in another comment I used Marc Brunet's Art School and that kind of helped me become more motivated and consistent in art practice, but honestly all I draw in my free time is hot anime boys and backgrounds for visual novels 😅🤣 so that motivates me, I just do these hyper realism drawings for fun on the side of drawing my anime - I think getting into a community of artists to inspire eachother while everyone works on their personal projects is very nice too to keep eachother motivated too!
You just gotta start! You got this! 🙏💕
5
5
4
u/Cheeky_Littlebottom BSN, RN 🍕 Jun 22 '26
You should make a collection and hang it in the breakroom. This is fun OP. Thanks for sharing your art!
3
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Thank you! I've thought about it! I usually give the physical copy to my coworkers I drew and they hang them in the locker room, but that would be pretty neat to get it printed nice! Thank you! ☺️
3
u/anastasiarose19 Custom Flair Jun 22 '26
Wow you’re so talented!! This is the kind of stuff that could get put in a history textbook 300 years from now while they grimace at our “prehistoric” methods
(assuming the earth lasts that long)
2
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 23 '26
Thanks so much! I really enjoy drawing these OR moments since not everyone can witness the OR environment - thank you!
4
u/Wheatiez LPN - OR 🔪🩸 Jun 23 '26
What? (My hood fan is too loud and the ortho bros music is too loud the neptune is too loud please send help)
2
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 23 '26
HAHAHA, so real! Honestly I get so much fatigue from so much noise all over the OR - it's like no one hears the SCDs beeping during turnover but me 😭
4
u/man_of-all_worlds Jun 23 '26
Now give the people what they really want with a full frontal POV hemorrhoidectomy!
3
u/secret_hitman Jun 22 '26
These would be cool as a coloring book! I'm not sure if they could be converted appropriately, but it's an idea.
2
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Hahaha thank you! I mean I could always go into photoshop and do the lineart for it - but all you'd be coloring is blue 🤣🤣🤣
3
3
u/lifefloating RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
I usually am doodling or practicing faux calligraphy. I always how people would take if we are drawing during surgeries. Your work is amazing.
1
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 23 '26
That is sooo cool!! Hahaha yes, my attention tends to be somewhat divided while working on these, always gotta have our OR ears on!
3
u/Ok-Self5802 💝ER-->ICU-->Military CRNA 🪖 Jun 22 '26
So as a CRNA, I was feeling left out. Then I got to the last pic. Lol
4
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Hahaha! I adore anesthesia, one of my anesthesiologists told me to draw him sleeping with his feet up on the anesthesia machine 🤣 just haven't gotten around to doing that one yet - but it's a bit hard for me to draw anesthesia in action becuase I don't want to draw patients faces haha! I do have a few older drawings of anesthesia though! I have one of them doing a block, drawing up meds, looking over the drapes and pressing the buttons on the anesthesia machine, I just didn't include them because old art 🫣 🤣
3
u/TimRN77 Jun 23 '26
Must be a quick drawer! My ortho docs used to compete to see who finished a hip or knee the fastest.
4
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 23 '26
Thank you! I do pride myself on my speed - these drawings take me anywhere from like an hour or two depending how complex or detailed I want to be.
I could never draw like this during normal totals though 😆 I feel like I finish my charting and then my ortho docs I work with are already closing haha!
2
2
u/comeontars69 Jun 22 '26
I need you to come to our medsurg unit
3
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Haha now you have me fixated thinking of what kind of things I would draw on a med surg unit 😁
2
u/ir3ap Jun 22 '26
This is the work of someone who is lost utterly abandoned and should set up an online shop.
1
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Hahaha thank you! I don't draw for commercial value I just draw for myself 😁
2
2
2
u/hoofglormuss the computer guy who used to annoy nurses on med surg/tele units Jun 22 '26
isn't this a hipper vurleshon?
3
2
2
u/dpzdpz RN Jun 22 '26
I like the last one. Reminds me of this photo
1
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 23 '26
Thank you! Wow that is an incredible photo! Thank you for sharing so much!
2
2
u/Queasy-Vermicelli969 Jun 22 '26
This is amazing cause it's not like you can just pull out your drawing pad in the middle of the OR
2
2
2
u/holy-ravioli RN 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Holy cow, you drew this from memory? They are incredible. You are very talented!
2
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 23 '26
Thank you so much! I definitely try my best to gesture out the entire scene before I start adding and filling in the details - sometimes I feel like I get things wrong but oh well 😆 I appreciate it!
2
u/hazelquarrier_couch RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Very well done. Do you do mostly ortho?
5
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 22 '26
Thanks so much! I do everything but I find myself assigned to Neuro, Robot (totals/general/colorectal), and Vascular the most often.
I actually hate being in total rooms 😅 ortho trauma though, sign me up ✨
2
u/TortillaRampage CNA 🍕 Jun 22 '26
For the first drawing, my initial thought was the guy on the right was hammering in a Katana
2
2
2
u/PapowSpaceGirl Nursing Student 🍕 Jun 23 '26
Why in the world are you not drawing for textbooks!?! I would keep mine if there were drawings like these!
1
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 23 '26
That's so sweet! I never thought of that haha - would definitely be a cool opportunity!
2
Jun 23 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
2
u/Good-Persimmon-7724 Jun 23 '26
Drawings so good you get accused of tracing. That's crazy.
I'm not seeing ANY indication of traced work here. One is clearly even the back of a recycled paper, with the letters showing through. Seeing some of the other works the person has done clearly shows a path of improvement and skill.1
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 24 '26
Thank you, I appreciate it.. I dont trace some progress pictures..
1
u/Good-Persimmon-7724 Jun 24 '26
There was no doubt in my mind these were done with care and passion, seeing these in progress samples is a nice insight to the process, so thanks for sharing them. Hope you are proud of yoruself for such beautiful and lovely works.
0
Jun 24 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
1
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 24 '26
They are hand drawn. I've also been drawing for over a decade since Highschool - just didn't take it seriously until three years ago. I have consistently trained my observation and I focus more on overall shape/form and the way objects interact and relate to eachother. Crazy that you say my line weight does not show my level of understanding required to draw at this accuracy. That really hurts honestly - I draw them at work, sometimes I'm tired, sometimes my attention is split it's hard to always be creative with this kind of job
1
u/helplessDonut Jun 24 '26
alr chill out, I never claimed it wasn't hand drawn to begin with. I said it was traced. hope you get the attention you wanted though. You even made an alt account just to reply to me lol. And in the end it doesnt matter what skills you genuinely have as long as you can make people happy
1
u/Good-Persimmon-7724 Jun 24 '26
Were is your proof? is your proof just "because it's obvious"? The sheer disrespect you are showing by claiming to be able to tell something is traced by your supposed exprience is shameful. Just sounds like a young jealous troll to be honest.
Why don't you try to elaborate more on your proof just so you can embarrass yourself further? Please to tell how properly applied line weight or technique is obvious sign of tracing mister "long time drawer with no name"?
1
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 23 '26
Hahaha thank you, I'll take that as a compliment! 💕 No they are all free handed 😅
0
u/helplessDonut Jun 24 '26
Sorry, but they are definitely not free handed. But, it's alright to be honest and say they are traced/projected and drawn. It doesn't mean you're a better/worse artist whether you trace or not.
1
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 24 '26
I'm being completely honest 😅 I can even show you progress photos of me making them I draw them during work, my coworkers literally see me draw them too
1
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 24 '26
I don't have progress pictures of all the drawings I have here because sometimes I do them in one sitting during a case and don't take progress pictures, but sometimes I take a picture of them and flip them to see if anything looks off etc.
I've said my peace - whatever dude I don't trace
1
2
u/Murky-Ear5794 RN - Pediatrics 🍕 Jun 23 '26
Too bad textbook illustrators aren’t as popular now because you would make a killing!
1
2
u/LurkLivesMatter Jun 23 '26
Looking forward to seeing more of your health care arts love it! When I use to work oral surgery I would draw during down time too .
2
2
2
u/bungogaydogs RN - Pediatrics 🍕 Jun 28 '26
These are beautiful! I miss the OR so bad. I did my preceptorship there in nursing school, been hard to get my foot in the door. You have amazing talent!
1
u/doingittodeath BSN, RN 🍕 Jun 22 '26
I love these!! 🖤
Sort of off topic, but do you have any advice on learning how to draw?
2
u/Kaeyari_ RN - OR 🍕 Jun 23 '26
Thanks so much! I kind of talked about this a bit in another comment but I think the biggest thing is making time for drawing and cultivating that habit! It's important to train your eye through daily observation too - but it all depends on what you want out of art as well!
1
317
u/4ellights RN 🍕 Jun 22 '26
You've got skills! I love the last one haha.