i can't soak it in, figure out why. >> reporter: it's a meditation this artwork valerie davis does, her as her hand moves with speed and certainty. she's doing graphite on paper portraits of each of the parkland shooting victims portraits that will eventually find their way to grieving families. >> it's forgotten about people next week but these people have to live with this for the rest of their lives. every time they look at this picture i want them to remember that someone cared. >> reporter: it had been some time since the last ones. miss davis had done portraits memorializing 9/11 firefighters children killed at sandy hook, victims of the charleston church shooting but this particular tragedy took a son of easton among the 17 killed chris hixon is from the south side, his parents still live in town. >> i was telling the mayor that i drew these pictures and he said val, when you see chris' family, he said when you see the grandparents you're going to know them he said they've been on center street all of their lives. >> reporter: miss davis says she's from three blocks over. there's