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Chicago skyline 268A pen & ink cityscape drawing from Monroe Harbor in silhouette by Stephen Condren, BFA, SAIC.
Cityscape
This cityscape rendering is a pen & ink drawing of Chicago from Monroe Harbor. The drawing is a linear silhouette of the skyline. This city scene delineation is rendered in parallel lines. The lines for the water and sky are horizontal, whereas the skyline lines are vertical. All of the horizontal lines in the sky are from the same delineation separated by the skyscrapers. All of the lines are done in free-hand because no rulers have be used. The longest lines are in the water and the sky because they run the length of the drawing.
This city scene is a two dimensional rendering because it offers no perspective. There is no depth in this cityscape because the skyline is flattened by the vertical lines that form the shape of the buildings. Depth of field is attained in this cityscape by means of space between the parallel lines. The exactness of the parallel lines is crucial because they cannot ever touch each other. Parallel lines never touch at any point because this is an axiom of Mathematics. The moment that parallel line touch they no longer are parallel because they have become skew.
Chicago Skyline 268A
The cityscape drawing is done in free-hand because no rulers or straight edges were used. This rendering is a high contrast work of art because there is no graduation of tones. The pen & ink lines from a sharp contrast that is strong. The lines of the pen & ink act as the range of tones for shade and shadows. Putting the parallel lines close together make the image more intense because it offers more in. If you put the lines further apart the tone of the rendering gets less intense because it offers more space.
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Chicago skyline 268A pen & ink cityscape drawing from Monroe Harbor in silhouette by Stephen Condren.
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