Drawing New York from Memory without Lifting the Pencil

We challenged artist Yolahugo to draw the New York skyline… in an unusual way

Hugo Barros Costa, aka Yolahugo (@yolahugo), is a teacher, architect, illustrator and urban sketcher. He dedicates a lot of time to urban sketching and is invited to teach this wonderful discipline in cities including: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Chicago, New York, Porto and Valencia. He loves drawing on the street: he loves portraying spaces, the physical features of space, and above all capturing different atmospheres.

Domestika challenged this talented architectural artist to draw the New York skyline. But to get him out of his comfort zone, he had to draw from memory and without taking his pencil off the paper.

Want to find out how Yolahugo got on? Don’t miss the video!

Love Yolahugo’s challenge? If you’d like to learn about composition, perspective and the use of color in urban illustrations, don’t miss Yolahugo’s online course: Architectural Sketching for Urban Illustrations.

English version by @studiogaunt

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