It took me over 8 hours to draw this:

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/19chryslerbuilding.jpg

Isn't it a beautiful building? I tried to capture the gleaming metallic quality of the crown and ornaments.

Its really really good! :okay:

Fabulous drawing.

It's the quintessential skyscraper.

:)

WOW :cheers:


Best one yet!!!! FANTASTICO !!!! :D

Damn!..The crown is mind-numbing!!!

10/10:D

The best I've ever seen!

Congratulations DamienK
The whole building looks fantastic, but let me tell you man, you outdid yourself with the crown!! it looks really good :okay:

Wow!! It looks very realistic! :banana: :dooby:

Stay tuned for my next effort: Empire State!

Fantastic job!!!!!!!! I can't wait to see the ESB that you do.

DamienK is da man!:cool:

I finished my drawing of Empire State today! I had to guess a bit with the two entrances at the base though, since I got no replies in my other thread yet.

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/19empiredone.jpg

I need a break after drawing those two. Phew!:)

:eek2:

11/10

Wow! :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2:

I really admired your drawings.....even all the way back to your pre-coloured buildings!!! ;)

You mean these? The first is my first ever skyscraper diagram from 1997, and the second is from 1999.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010827223807/worldstallest.com/images/94pix-1/koh-1.jpg

http://web.archive.org/web/20010827231150/worldstallest.com/images/94pix-1/koh-9901.jpg

The diagram was updated in late 2000:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~paulkoh/webpage1a.jpg

Wow,i love it.I think i just found some new wank of material :D

All I can say is... Wow!

Awesome work with the Chrysler, especially on the crown, and the ESB is nice too!

Brilliant drawings DamienK, I have to say I have the 'worlds tallest buildings over 300m as a print out on my notice board'. The new ones of the Chrysler and ESB are just stunning, all the detail is there. what software do use to draw them? I prefer to work with good old fashioned pen and paper myself, when I get the chance.

Great inspiration, keep them up.

awesome pics, i like the ESB alot

very cool damo

Hi Damien it's your beau *hugs* you did a fantastic job I LOVE it :D Remember when you and I went to NYC together? we got lost LOL LOL ^_^ but wonderful job =)

Great drawings ! What program did you use ?

For most of my drawings, and including Chrysler and ESB, Windows Paint was the only program I used. I dabbled in Adobe Illustrator for a while and found my drawings looked relatively flat and lifeless.

I started using Paint to draw buildings in 1997. Over the last 6 years, bit by bit, I've been able to make improvements.

I'm always sketching buildings and cities too. Since high school my stationery has been dotted with sketches of fantasy buildings and skylines.

BTW, a while back I completed new drawings of the WTC towers and Metlife (PanAm). You guys want to see? :D

awesome work!.....your drawings are very accurate!

BTW, my skyscraper page is no longer being updated. The last times I added stuff was over a year ago. The amount of server space allocated to me is at 99 percent.

Yeah when this guy (Damien) was with me at my college he was sneaking on the computers so he could come to this place LOL he's obbessed with skyscraepers :D we went to NYC he was like," I gotta take a pic of this this this and THIS and LOOKIE HERE this was but before dinosaur times etc" LOL LOL :D Awwww I love Damien *hugs* sorry DK I love playing with you heh heh you're cute when you blabble about those facts so CUTE :D

Originally posted by DamienK

It took me over 8 hours to draw this:

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/19chryslerbuilding.jpg

Isn't it a beautiful building? I tried to capture the gleaming metallic quality of the crown and ornaments.

really coooooool!

man damien. That is one gift you have there. :)

Thanks guys! The WTC and PanAm (as it appeared in the 60s). They took approx 5 or 6 hours each. It's hard to tell. I work on and off on them. I often eat or watch TV while working.

I have many unfinished drawings. An Illustrator drawing of mine, Jin Mao, has so many elements in it it clogged my system and only the crown is actually complete. I like glass buildings, but I tend to draw stone-clad ones because I'm not good at making glass look realistic!!

With Chrysler I worked on it from about 3 pm to 7 pm, when I had to go to work, and then when I got back, 12 to 4 am!

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/19worldtradecenter.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/19metlifebuilding.jpg

And yes, I did not "lift" the Pan Am logo from anything! I copied it by eye from "Catch me if you Can". At no point during drawing PanAm did I use anything other than Paint, or any other of the four ones I've done so far. If you've seen the movie, there is a brief shot of the Pan Am sign on top of Metlife (the movie was set in the 60s). I made a screen capture from the DVD rental.

Here's a shot of them at 1:1

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/19newyorkbuildings.jpg

Originally posted by ChristineS
we went to NYC he was like," I gotta take a pic of this this this and THIS and LOOKIE HERE this was but before dinosaur times etc" LOL LOL

I never said "lookie here" or "this was but before dinosaur times"!!! :laugh:

More great stuff Damien! The WTC and PanAm look very realistic, and nice angles you chose to draw the WTC Towers. How about a Woolworth one next? :D

hey damien, can you make me a drawing of PPG Place?

http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/landmarks/assets/images/PPGdr.jpg
http://www.sas.com/images/offices/NA/pittsburg.gif

How the hell did you draw it so perfectly???

Edited: Sorry, I get kind of hyper when I don't get enough sleep

I don't know when it can be finished, but Woolworth would be very, very difficult to do. I think I have enough photos of it, and I have some old elevations (from 1910-11!!) reproduced in some very good Skyscraper books.

PPG - I'll try to add clouds, and reflections, (I will need help with Photoshop) but if I can't get what I want, I'll just do it "flat". That is, no reflections.

so damien, hows the progress?

Actually, now is not a good time. . . I just started back at uni, and I have alot of work to deal with. Those drawings I did were just finished days before the end of the semester break.

Plus I turn 20 on Monday. :)

ah, thats ok then

The Chrsler Building is the finest building in the world, you know it! My favorite, certainly. And you know, lately, I've been having fantasies of making an epic movie about "tying up loose ends" in Greek mythology - or Roman - in which the climax would take place atop the Chrysler building. That would just be so cool.

But my opinion? If you need proof that God gives gifts of talents, there's the proof! That building!

All of the drawings are excellent!!:tiasd:



Daquan13.

its great 10/10 nice one:)

Originally posted by DamienK

You mean these? The first is my first ever skyscraper diagram from 1997, and the second is from 1999.

The diagram was updated in late 2000:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~paulkoh/webpage1a.jpg

Hmm... I don't understand why for some the spires are counted and some the spires are noe.:?

yeh, why is shun hing square shorter than John hankok center?

In 2001 I put them in the order skyscrapers.com had put them.

nice Diagram damien. Why is it backwards?

I don't know. . .

ha, oh ok.

These are awsome! :cool:

i sent one of damiens fantasy towers to the government and they said thankyou for you email we will look through it which basically means NO lol, damien those drawrings are off the hook!
you should put buildings in your skyscrapers thatd be off the hook as well!

And i wonder were damiens from hmmmm Perth! lol.

Okay Damien, enough talk.. I wanna see your fantasy diagrams.:)

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid87/pe8395acb67e2d0e3be855cae0c9a335a/fa984a2e.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid56/p6b8979ed5164c3d3bae1729c6b5afe84/fc712f73.gif

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/pe1fb59fa749a7ea9d94fe6407862ae01/fcb8c2ab.gif

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid56/p4605f12c3d59172f86f522fc9ed3e183/fc712f78.gif

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid51/p82cd3b34a687bc8a5996657010ffb1b4/fc9ec8cf.gif

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid51/p1f01d40a41bdea24d77b42f2098dcb5f/fc9ec8d2.gif

Wow Damien those are great! How does your mind come up with these things? I love the multiple replication of the same building, (the Crowne tower). You should forward some of these to some architects, and hear what they would have to say about them. Youre so talented.

:: jaw falls through floor to the ground ::


Amazing!! You should submit these to someone! That has to be worth some major $$$! Great job. Keep up the fantastic work that you do! Show us more! :D