City

Sketches from Chicago

Steel, soot and the elevated loop — structure you can read at a glance and draw in an hour.

finished sketches from this city

span of the log

media used

longest single sitting

Drawn	Kind	Sketch	On site
5 Oct 2026	Spot sketch	Sixty minutes on the Quincy platform, between two trains	60 min
26 Sep 2026	Layered process	Twenty minutes, four blocks, and a hard stop	20 min

Place card

Chicago

2 sketches · United States

Seven hills, tiled facades and a tram that rattles through every drawing you attempt.

Granite, iron balconies and the Douro folding the whole city into one grey-blue plane.

Ochre walls, cedar doorways and shade that moves faster than your pencil.

Two continents, one waterway, and ferries that hand you a new skyline every twelve minutes.

Low slate roofs, copper spires and a harbour clean enough to draw straight into.

Hanok eaves against glass towers — the fastest lesson in drawing two centuries at once.

Awnings stacked like scales, air-conditioner boxes and alleys that never run straight.

Tilted slabs, painted market stalls and a haze that flattens distance into value shapes.