Architectural - Urban Sketches and Cityscape Drawings

Japanese Artist Kiyohiko Azuma (あずまきよひこ) is famous for his Japanese Manga Art and for being an author.  Today though, we are going to have a look at his Urban Sketches and Cityscape Drawings.  Azuma's drawings carry a powerful intensity and detail that are born from the deep feelings he experiences on a daily basis, we were able to see this when reading some of the notes accompanying these wonderful Black and White ink drawings.  Enjoy...

Architectural City Alphabet Typography

World traveller, French-Japanese Illustrator Hugo Yoshikawa has created these lovely and imaginative learning aids.  In these drawing from European cities, Yoshikawa depicts the main Architectural buildings in each City, for each letter of the alphabet.  See if you can identify them before looking a the name below it.  Which City would you like to live in? Which is your favourite Drawing?  You can use the comment box, at the end of the article, to tell us.

Surreal Architectural Moleskine Drawings

Swedish Freelance Illustrator Mattias Adolfsson has worked on a variety of projects that varies from computer games to children's books.  In today's post we are bringing you some beautifully Surreal Architectural Drawings.  Remember to pay attention to the animals he adds to the some of his drawings.

Pen and Ink Architectural Drawings and Sketches

If you like Architectural Illustrations and Sketches, Paul Hill is the person to go to.  More than sketches for proposed buildings, they look like art pieces, you can just hang on the wall.  Having travelled a lot, since a young age, this is how Hill describes his journey, "Born in the UK...bred in Africa...and survived over a decade of life in the Austrian Alps!".  We have tried to bring together as many different aspects of his drawing portfolio, including interiors, exteriors and drawings before and after colouring.  All the drawings featured have been accomplished with Pen and Ink.

Architectural Miniature Worlds Inside Glass Test Tubes

Dutch Freelance Designer, Art Director and Animator Rosa de Jong creates art in many different mediums, today we are going to focus on her handmade tiny, little, miniature worlds that come into existence, inside glass test tubes.  For each of the miniatures you have, a detail and a work in progress, that will allow you to see how small they are, with references to gauge their scales and see how they are put together.

Architectural Street and Building Drawings

Architecture graduate and Artist, Minty Sainsbury is now a Freelance Artist and Illustrator.  Today we are going to see 3 of the techniques she adopts, when drawing architectural subjects.  The first is outlining the buildings in the foreground and only detailing the building of interest, in the background.  The second consists of normal detailed Elevations and the third deals with Street View Elevations.  Enjoy the travels through beautiful European Architecture...

Intricate Japanese Architectural Drawings

Mita Mitauzo 実田くら is a very talented Illustrator, that is able to construct these magnificently detailed architectural drawings.  In his Illustrations he visits a lot of different subjects, but the ones we found the most fascinating are his Architectural ones and that is why we have brought them to you.  The drawings are so big and detailed that they are difficult to fit even if enlarged, so, for most of them, we have the original plus 2 details.  To enlarge them just press the image (not the first one).

Architectural Drawings in Color & Black and White

Beautiful drawings by Artist Teikoku Shounen also known as Imperial Boy.  We have concentrated on his architectural art in this post and have tried to keep the images as big as possible, (press the image to enlarge, but not the first one), so that you can see all of the intricate detail he manages to cram into his drawings.  There is a selection of colour and back and white drawings both of which look fantastic in their own way.  Our suggestion is to enlarge the images to pick up all of the details and the subtle colour use in very dark images whilst using faded colours in the light ones.  Enjoy...

Architectural Drawings of Historic Buildings

Łukasz Gać is a Polish Architect and Illustrator, he teaches and co-owns DOMIN Poznan school of design.  They specialise in various drawing subject and watercolours.  We have chosen to cover their Architectural Drawings in this post.  Beautiful Pencil and Ink drawings mostly based in and around Poznan, which is located in the centre-west of Poland.  Enjoy this drawing walkabout, of the historic buildings of this beautiful town.

Surreal Fantasy of Dream Architectural Paintings

Sunga Park 朴成娥 박성아 creates these Surreal dream like watercolour Paintings, detailed with pens and more colours.  Park creates paintings and drawings of various subjects, the ones we are concentrating on this post, are her Architectural ones.  As you will see further down these buildings are taken from all around the world.  We have included a video that shows how to blend the the watercolour background layer, before the details are added with the pens and more colours.

Architectural Reality seen through an Airbrush Painting

British artist Ben Johnson has been exhibiting his work for the past 46 years, his work is included in the permanent collections of museums worldwide.  He specialises in architectural based paintings.  Johnson's work is painstakingly meticulous, making sure he picks up all of the details and recreating all of the colours as faithfully as he sees them in real life painting as perfect reproduction as he can.  We have included 3 videos that are going to show you a bit more about Johnson's technique and background.

Architectural Drawings with a Striking Background

Evgeniy Rodionov (Евгений Родионов) is a Russian Artist and Illustrator, that showcased his home town, Vologda, in sketch and drawing form.  The thing that really captured our attention, are not just the lovely drawings, but also the way, the beautiful background is a able to elevate, the entire composition.

Detailed Architectural Recreations and Concept Drawings

A mixture of drawings and sketches from an architectural student.  To appreciate the details in the images, you are going to have to press them to enlarge them once in the post.

Detailed Architectural Drawing from the Imagination

Self Taught Painter and Drawing Artist Stefan Bleekrode comes up with these drawings, partly from his experiences whilst travelling and partly from his imagination.  To make the scenes more realistic Bleekrode always makes sure he leaves room for dustbins, phone boots and benches, in the streets.  His drawings are inspired by the architecture of different cities around the USA and Europe.  The drawings start with a general layout, which he jots down in his sketchbook, the sketch will be explored in more detail some time in the future, sometimes weeks, months or even a year later.  We have included the bigger drawings towards the end of the post, with GIF animations to show the details, enlarge them for a better view.  More of Stefan Bleekrode's work here on DesignStack: "Fantasy in Detailed Architectural Drawings"

Brush Stroke Architectural Paintings

Korean Artist Jieun Park chooses her scene at night when the moon comes up and illuminates the city.  She includes these architectural scene within the perimeter of the brush strokes.  This makes it look like each stroke is partially uncovering part of the view, bringing to light small pieces of the entire picture.  The following is a direct quote from the Artist: “What I try to express through my works are the emotions that I felt at the specific moments during the journey. I remember how I was emotionally overwhelmed and felt lonely by looking down at the city from on high.”

Architectural Drawings of Historical Buildings

Miniature sketches and drawings of some of the most beautiful buildings in the world.

Charming Architectural wobbly Drawings and Paintings

British artist Chris Lee loves, to capture images of buildings, mostly off of the trodden path, in places where most people don't venture, in order to see architectural beauties. His About page, starts with "why I draw, and why I wobble" on this page he explains how he does not use photographs as references, nor pencil outlines. or rulers and erasers, just an ink pen.  The really interesting thing is, the reaction he gets from fascinated and inquisitive people that crowd around him when he starts working.  This happens in places where a tourist with a camera capturing the scene, would be seen as an intruder, someone invading the privacy of an area.

Intricate Architectural Drawings and Illustrations

Scottish Artist Jamie Cameron has been working in the field of Architecture for a few years and has a passion for drawing and a rich imagination to match it.  We could divide the work he does as based on real buildings and the fantastic ones, that populate his thoughts.   In the "real life buildings" as he calls them, Cameron illustrates buildings from Scotland, England and New York City, whilst in the fantasy ones, he draws inspiration from our world, both in the East and in the West.

Paintings of Architectural Photorealism

Japanese Photo-Realistic Artist Hisaya Taira brings us these impressively realistic paintings.  Having lived in a very crowded country, he seems to have removed the human aspect form his art, projecting these spaces in their purest and unadulterated forms.  As more and more of us move towards a 24 hour society, especially in big cities, it is becoming less likely to come across empty buildings.  Even when an office is closed for the night, the cleaning crew and security staff take over.  The same goes for the subway, the night is taken over by cleaning and maintenance crews.  Our lives are becoming so busy that for some, 24 hours are not enough to get everything done...

Architectural and Movie - Pencil Sculpture and Carving

Talented multi disciplinary Russian Artist, Salavat Fidai (Салават Фидаи) applies his talents to various forms of art that include: Painting, Photography and Sculpting / Carving.  In today's post we are going to cover the last one, we have put together, static images and videos to show you, just how amazingly precise and delicate his carving movements have to be, to find the finish object in the lead of the pencils he uses.