Description
Chicago skyline 276A pen & ink cityscape drawing of downtown skyscrapers by Stephen Condren.
Cityscape
This cityscape rendering is a pen & ink drawing of downtown Chicago in the afternoon. The cityscape is a very loose and fresh rendering because it is done in free-hand. Contour lines have not been used in this rendering because they make the image flat. Skyline drawings need depth of field to give dimension to the rendering because it would look like a silhouette. The bottom portion of the drawing are the waters of Lake Michigan overlooking Monroe Harbor. Monroe Harbor is the front door to the City of Chicago because Grant Park is located there.
Chicago Skyline 276A
The cityscape drawing is done with hatched lines because they fill in the details. Every line of the drawing is carefully executed because it shows the identity of the building. The tallest building in the drawing is Willis Tower because it has 108 floors. Trump Tower is the second tallest building because it has 98 floors. The St. Regis on the far right looks taller than Trump Tower because it is closer to the shoreline.
The hatched lines are parallel because this offers a plane surface of the building. There is no cross-hatching in the drawing because they make the rendering too dark. This cityscape is a cheerful drawing that shows all the details of the famous buildings in downtown Chicago.
Skylines And Cityscapes Genres
Below are twelve links to genres of skylines and cityscapes that I have done to help you understand my process:
- Pen & Ink wash: 207A
- Charcoal pencil drawings & sketches: 157A
- Color pencil illustrations: 2453A
- Watercolors and tempera: 1170A
- Lead pencil city scene art: 733A
- Silhouette outline: 267A
- Vector graphics: 269A
- Oil painting: 2500A
- Delineation: 5001A
- Architectural rendering: 5500A
- Technical drawing: 5000A
- Contour lines: 225A
Alt Image Tag
Chicago skyline 276A pen & ink cityscape drawing of downtown skyscrapers by Stephen Condren.
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