“I have always had a passion for the metropolis. As an architect, I combine my architectural knowledge of structures to unravel the essence of a city together with artistic freedom to create these stylistic cityscapes from around the world.” _{(H. Braun)}

Arty Globe is a journey fueled by a strong passion for perspective drawing as well as for the Metropolis and all it represents. It is about the desire of one person to illustrate the world and its major cities the way he sees them – through his eyes. 

Hartwig Braun, an architect in his profession, has embarked on a journey of expressing his unique view of the world around him in a series of illustrations done in his quirky, yet quite accurate, eye catching style. Since 2005 this intriguing guy, who previously lived and worked in Amsterdam, Paris & Berlin, has been drawing these complex and very detailed images of cities and famous views from around the world. 

All of Hartwig’s images are drawn by hand and the play with perspective to create the "fish-eye lens" effect is done free-hand...! A full panoramic image could take up to 3 months to do and involves drawing every single building up to 20-30 times. He uses bird’s eye view pictures, city 

maps and his personal experience gained from walking around the areas illustrated. This enables him to capture the bustling energy of a city with vibrant colours and imaginative perspectives.

Once all the outlines have been completed they are scanned onto the computer and colourised digitally. This enables him to create various colouring styles for the same hand-drawn lines. 

Hartwig also has a very quirky and fresh take on familiar British & London Icons as he beautifully doodles them to compliment his city art. The two go together very well and when applied to the Arty Globe wonderful high-quality range of products they make great gift ideas for every pocket & need.

They say that an image is worth a 1,000 words. So why not jump over to the 'Gallery' pages where you can see familiar cities very differently indeed…

If you want to know more about the artist or "Arty Globe" have a look at the 'About' section.

And if you want a memory of the work or just looking for a great gift idea why not visit our web-shop and have a look at what we have to offer... 

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