Chicago Skyline Multi-Color Pen & Ink Cityscape Drawing Of Downtown At Sunset #296A

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Chicago skyline 296A multi-color pen & ink cityscape drawing of downtown skyscrapers at sunset by Stephen Condren.

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Chicago skyline 296A multi-color pen & ink cityscape drawing of downtown skyscrapers at sunset by Stephen Condren.

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Chicago skyline 296A sunset multi-color pen & ink cityscape drawing of downtown skyscrapers at dusk, matted white in the size of 11″ x 14″.

Skylines, Cityscapes, And City Scene Genres

Below are three links to genres of skylines and cityscapes that I have done to help you understand my process:

1. Pen & Ink sketch & wash:  #207A
2. Color & lead pencil illustrations:  #2453A
3. Watercolors and tempera:  #1170A

Cityscape

This cityscape rendering is a pen & ink drawing of the skyline of Chicago at sunset. No black ink was used to make this cityscape drawing. Yellow and orange are the colors used to make the sun. Hatched lines were used everywhere in the sky. No hatched lines were used in the water below. The image of the cityscape is reflected in the waters of Lake Michigan. Soft undulating lines were used to make the water waves. The lines in this cityscape are all short because they are hatched. Hatched lines make the best shading for architectural cityscape drawings. Pen & ink uses hatched lines to make the shading. The more hatched lines make the drawing darker. All of the lines in the cityscape were used with a fine point pen tip.

Blue ink has the same dark tone as black ink because of the pigment. Red ink is similar in tone to orange because of the pigment and stone. Putting orange and red together compliment the color of the sunset. The difficulty in working with color inks is the changing of tone across a large surface. For example, the sky of this cityscape is very light on the left and very dark on the right because of the sunset. To make the sky darker I have to gradually darken the color of the inks. It is not good to put a dark blue or green near the bright oranges or red because it clashes.

Chicago Skyline 296A

The cityscape drawing shows Willis Tower blocking the view of the setting sun. This is on the far left side of the drawing with is looking west. The right side of the drawing show the St. Regis which is the third tallest building in Chicago. The dark ink colors on the right side reflect the evening sky entering. The Aon Center is the fourth tallest building in Chicago located in the center of the cityscape. Trump Tower is the second tallest building in Chicago because it has 98 floors. The St. Regis has 101 floors but is shorter than Trump Tower.