Cities Mashup

A couple weeks ago our drawing prompt was to draw a city. I recently got a job to illustrate a city for a magazine article. The magazine has just been published, so I can share my illustration with you guys.

It’s a fun drawing, because I got to include real buildings from a bunch of different cities. See if you can spot them:

the

train station

in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

 

the

main square

in Brussels, Belgium

 

the

Badshahi Mosque

in Lahore, Pakistan

 

the

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial

church in Berlin, Germany

 

the

Chrysler Building

in New York City

 

the

Washington Monument

in Washington, DC

(And notice how in a drawing like this, I get to take lots of liberties. Those buildings from Brussels, for example… too many windows! Too ornate! Too much detail! So I kinda fudged it.)

Here’s how it looks in the magazine:

It was a fun job. Not a bad way to make a buck. Thanks, Writer’s Chronicle, for getting this crazy city out of my head and onto paper!