Urban Sketches

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All of these were sketched on my lunch hour.
Newbury Street
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Brooklyn
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Portland, ME - West End, sketched from a photo by user Corey off of his great portlandmainedailyphoto website/blog. "West End Doors"
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I experimented with coloring with watercolor pencils -- didn't go well, but not too bad. At least it's just a scanned print that I colored.
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Harvard Square
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All are a work in progress and will probably remain that way for a while. I start and stop sketches all the time. I have some I've been working on for an hour a year, or less, for years.
 
Patrick. All of your drawings are stunning. I love the line quality of the ones you recently posted.


here are a few small drawings on wood that i just finished and am throwing in my portfolio. Nothing that compares to your stuff but i think they came out nice.

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Patrick, you should set up an Etsy shop to start selling these.
 
Thanks guys.

Here's the finished product: (took 4 days)
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I like your woodwork. Art sometimes looks better with fewer details. I like it (particularly the perspective).
 
^^ Very cool, to me it gives me a feeling of 19th century London drawings.
 
Thanks GW, I didn't see your comment until now. As a follow up sketch, here's the same structure (1807 Portland Observatory) from a different angle (and a cleaned up version of my initial observatory above):

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This is seriously awesome. I'm envious of your hand rendering skills, I've always used paper to conceptualise my ideas but typically move straight onto CAD once I have roughed out what I'm doing.

If I really like a project I will sometimes do a few hand renderings of the final product on some off-white velum, but my drafting table is currently covered with my girlfriends crafting supplies so you can see how well that goes...

Keep it up, its great.
 
davem said:
This is seriously awesome. I'm envious of your hand rendering skills, I've always used paper to conceptualise my ideas but typically move straight onto CAD once I have roughed out what I'm doing.

If I really like a project I will sometimes do a few hand renderings of the final product on some off-white velum, but my drafting table is currently covered with my girlfriends crafting supplies so you can see how well that goes...

Keep it up, its great.
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Thanks Davem! Are you an architect?
 
A multiway boulevard illustrated for a zoning and urban design manual I'm working on.
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Patrick said:
A multiway boulevard illustrated for a zoning and urban design manual I'm working on.
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Not sure why there's only a sidewalk on one side of the street, and I can't say I'm a fan of having the two side access streets on top of the central street. The entire road itself is much too wide, and pedestrians tend to not like walking in the middle of the road if they can at all help it.

In all honesty, it strikes me as a primarily one-way street with opposite direction traffic tacked on as an afterthought, and much too wide. I don't like it. It feels like a step in the wrong direction, to me.
 
It reminds me of Commonwealth Avenue in Allston, with the Green Line replaced by the pedestrian trail.
 
Thats Pretty good , although the street light seems a little too big.
 
Comm Student, the use of multi-way boulevards is typically a retrofitting solution for wide arterial roads, and is a way that balances the need to accommodate thru-traffic while responding in a context-sensitive manner to local businesses and residential neighborhoods. It is used in Europe as well as America (more on the retrofitting side of things in America) and is largely considered a successful transportation planning and urban design approach. The side access lanes allow for local traffic to move at slower paces, and are often one way. The medians allow pedestrians to cross the large streets you dislike with ease. I don't think this is a question of wide vs. narrow (as much as we'd like it to be the case, not every street can be a quaint little way). It's more a question of how do we respond to those streets which either must be or already are very wide for traffic movement in a way that balances the needs of everyone in a "complete" streets approach. As for the sidewalks, you'll note a sidewalk on the far right, a sidewalk (ped trail) in the middle), and an unlabeled sidewalk on the far left. The only place a side walk is missing is in the left-most median, where it could exist but in this case was deemed to be a redundant pedestrian trail. Really the emphasis of this visual is the focal point (rightward access lane), which illustrates what might also be on the other side as well. I encourage you to read more about multiway boulevards if interested, as they really are a neat approach to design. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...tpyYj_I8LBNfWYn9Q&sig2=ISy5UgASePFLkxP_XS9TKQ

Also, The Boulevard Book by Alan Jacobs.

Thanks for the comment.

As for the size of the street light, probably a valid point. The central light is supposed to be bigger as it casts light upon a larger area, whereas the local access way is supposed to be shorter as it is for traffic signals and not lighting. Scale can be difficult, especially when working in pen.
 
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