Given that Benjamin Sack's hand-drawn cityscapes usually combine features from different cities into surreal urban sprawls, the possibility of pinpointing your own home is probably confined to those who live in architectural landmarks. But the level of detail is there. Even more staggering is how Sack achieves it, with nothing more than a liner pen. (Or many of them, rather. Penheads take note, he uses a 0.05mm Staedtler.) A recent piece titled A Single Note has a circumference of 12.5 feet, and includes what looks to be the Roman Colesseum and a Breugel's version of the Tower of Babel. Another (below) imagines a kind of Greater New York on steroids, with a mountain range where Staten Island should be. Peruse some of Sack's most astonishing cityscapes, below:
· Jaw-Dropping Pen and Ink Cityscapes That Seem to Sprawl into Infinity by Ben Sack [Colossal via My Modern Met]
· All fine art coverage [Curbed National]