[Patrick]

Sure you like Architecture now, but did you when you where a kid?

I LOVED architecture as a kid, I knew very much about New York and Los Angeles. From the Skyline of New York to the Logos atop LA's Towers.

Post Your drawings you made as a kid (under 10)
I'd love to see other's drawings. :)

Mmk, some of my famorite NYC ones, in possible chronological order.

NYC 9:00
No date, No title, but has got to be between late 1998 (age 5) or early 1999 (age 5 or 6)

My Grandma has a book called [America Then & Now] There was an amazing picture panoramic of NYC at dusk from atop the Brooklyn Bridge.

Of Course it was much different than this, for example the Chrysler Building and Empire State would be much farther back. I guess I didnt really try to duplicate it, I only seemed to put buildings I actually knew. Well yeah all the major bldg's are labled, maybe the tower to the left is the American International Building, and the Clock tower might have been the time when I finished the drawing, or simply indicateing what time it was.

The "M" was supposed to be the Manhattan Bridge :haha:

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/5917/00001wd5.jpg

New York City Skyline
No Title, no Date, but I'm guessing late 1998 (age 5) or early 1999 (age 5 or 6)

Well I'm not sure what to put it, I dont think I copied off of a real picture, just put together what I thought New York Looked at the time.

Lets See, I see: The CitiCorp Center, Chrysler Building, George Washington Bridge, Empire State Building, World Trade Center, Brooklyn & Manhattan Bridges and my sexy curvy Statue of Liberty :haha:

Touched it up in photoshop to make it clearer:
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/4166/00000001ia1.jpg

For Grandpa
May 2nd, 1999 (age 6)

I remember my grandpa had it on his refridgeorator, before he started to lose it with his alzheimers, he eventually was put to rest in 2005 in his late 70's :(

As you can see its very simular to the Last Drawing, I'm sure this was made after it in an effort to improve it. All the major landmarks are clearly labled, but as you can also see 17 State Street??, Woolworth Building, World Financial Center and Battery Park appear also.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3120/0000001mz8.jpg

New - York - City
September 19, 1999 (age 6)

Now I love this one because its not really what New York looks like. From what it looks like I knew which buildings went to, Midtown and Downtown seem correct.

I see: Chrysler, CitiCorp, GE Bldg, Metlife, Pierre Hotel, Sherry Netherland, General Moters, Empire State, Solow Bldg, not sure, not sure, Metropolitan Life Insurance, Merchandise Mart, New York Life, Chase Manhattan, 40 Wall Street, Marine Midland Bank, American International Bldg, One Liberty Center, Woolworth, World Financial Center, Bankers Trust, and the WTC.

There is also the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan & Brooklyn Bridges. I assume thats the Varazzono Narrows Bridge in the background.

Look at that sun smile.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3637/000001ds6.jpg

Post some of yours!

[foxmtbr]

Woah, cool drawings there! I used to draw fantasy cities, inspired by ones that we were passing on the road (I usually drew in the car). Unfortunately, I don't think I have any of them anymore, I have looked for some of them to no avail. :( Also, none of mine were in colo(u)r, like yours.

[Daquan13]

Great drawings, Patrick!!

It's just too bad that two of the greatest buildings we once knew were attacked and destroyed!

[Derek]

those are stunning Patrick:cool:


but...Liberty of Statue?:jester:

[foxmtbr]

^ :haha: I didn't even notice that one the first time!

[Patrick]

I couldnt fit the worlds so I had to put them somewhere else :haha:

No one else has any drawings?

[mikeR]

I used to have a piece of rolled up paper that had about 20ft of drawings my brother and I made when I was 7 or 8 but when I went to find them they were gone.:(

[Tanster]

I did that too hahaha I would poast like 4 pieces of paper and draw a huge skyline. Imnot sure if i still have it. Ill try to look for it.

[Holden West]

Great drawings! I also loved drawing buildings. However, these reposted drawings show my obsession with secret underground hideouts.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j142/Theoldvictorian/hideout4.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j142/Theoldvictorian/hideout2.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j142/Theoldvictorian/hideout3.jpg

These all date from the mid to late 1970s.

[rbowk]

what if i am already 13?

[Holden West]

^Then what are you waiting for? It's almost too late! Do 100 drawings, keep the 10 best, then when you're an old fellow like me you'll have something interesting to show.

Do kids even draw anymore? When I was a kid, my friends and I would spend hours drawing silly sci-fi scenes on big sheets of paper, regardless of 'talent'. I fear that the only thing kids today have to show for their leisure time is hours of solo computer gaming and facebook use.

[Bergenser]

I think many of us has drawned when we where kids,
me and a friend of me always drawed when we where together,
when other kids did something else.

Too bad I didn't keep much, my dad always told me to keep my drawings.
I should have listned... :(

[foxmtbr]

:haha: Nice pictures Holden! Were you plotting a secret overthrow of the government at the time (the Rebel Army base)? I particularly enjoy the last picture of the collapsing base.

Also, I seem to recall that you've posted those before? Good stuff. :D

[Holden West]

Yes, I posted them last year in a Skybar thread. I'm not sure if it's about government overthrow--presumably "anti-rebel" could mean pro-government, or maybe they're against the government AND the rebels. I guess I never really thought that through...

Regardless, as I pointed out before, a secret army shouldn't really have their logo painted on the side of their vehicle. :doh:

[Patrick]

Holden West those are so cool! especially the last one :haha:

what if i am already 13?

I said you cant post drawings after age 13, although I'm changeing it to 10, for a more kidde feeling.

[ltsmotorsport]

I used to draw fantasy cities...

Same here. I'd post them but they're back at my parents house.

[Hoplite330]

I'm 14 now and i remember when I was 6-7 I drew a massive castle/city scape going into like 8 pieces of paper. Guess where it went a month later.

The fireplace!

[foxmtbr]

Regardless, as I pointed out before, a secret army shouldn't really have their logo painted on the side of their vehicle. :doh:

:haha: Probably not...

[Patrick]

I'll post some more soon :)


yo.

[Dear Leader VI]

All of these pictures are awesome, and yet they feel so familiar because I drew buildings and hideouts and bases and ships and houses all the time as a kid. Excellent work, gents. I'm off to see if I can find any of my older drawings.

[ThatKidFromBoise]

LOL, all I used to draw were airport terminals, airport terminals, airport terminals!

I swear, it was nothing but airport designs, airport terminals, and airplanes. Sometimes I'd draw runway layouts, but mostly it was airport terminals. Almost every airport terminal I drew was completely made up. I must have made over 3,000 airport terminal drawings in my life so far.

Now, it's airport terminals AND random disasters!

Anthony

[Patrick]

Well techincally these arent really Childhood Drawings, but close enough.

My dad had a huge tub of blocks since his childhood, I used to make countless cities, oh it was so much fun. Very Good times! It was all dandy until the wind toppled the taller skinny blocks! (Especially when I made models of the Twin Towers) ;)

Simple New York City
1999 - 2000ish?

Here is one of the oldest ones I could find, NYC of course. In other pictures the housing development behind was under construction so this had to be between 1999 and 2000. 1st grade.

The only notible buildings I can point out is: One New York Plaza, The Twin's, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, and the (Then) Citicorp Center.

Oh, And Lady Liberty!

BTW, I dont look like that anymore haha, or my hair! :haha:

http://i14.tinypic.com/639qywo.jpg

Advanced NYC
2000 - 2001ish?

I know this had to be second grade, judgeing by the number of real world buildings. Not much to say, this had to be one of my most advanced models, since they have to be good to get a picture.

I see: The Verrazano Narrows Bridge, World Financial Center, Twin Towers, Brookyln, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridges, Times Square, GE Building, ESB, Metlife, Grand Central Station, CitiCorp, Chrysler, and the (then under construction) Trump World Tower.

If you look closely you can see many other real world buildings, like 17 State Street, Chase Manhattan, 500 5th Avenue, 40 Wall Street, (XYZ Buildings Or in this case, YZ), the CitiBank Building in Queens, and much more.

Brookyln, Queens, and New Jersey, where mainly old clup holders, especially New Jersey :haha:
http://i11.tinypic.com/63cr79t.jpg

Downtown & Midtown, you can see the markered on "GE" logo, The World Financial Center and 40 Wall Street, below and right of the Twins. You can also see One and Two Pen Plaza with Madison Square Garden.
http://i8.tinypic.com/63madmp.jpg

The pictures must have been taken at different times, Brookyln, Queens, and New Jersey dissapear every now and then.
http://i9.tinypic.com/4mcx0ef.jpg

Only had enough blocks to go to Central Park.
http://i10.tinypic.com/4mx20ic.jpg

:banana:

[FlyersFan118]

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3120/0000001mz8.jpg
What's a 'Liberty of Statue'? :haha:

Very cool. I have some somewhere, if I can find them I'll post them.

[Patrick]

^Aaah! Everyone asks that when they see it, ok, I wrote Statue, I had no room so I but of Liberty Abovie it! :haha:

[foxmtbr]

Woah! Great buildings, Patrick! I also built cities when I was little, but with legos. Unfortunately, I don't have any pics. :(

[the94112]

This all reminds me a lot of my childhood, except I'm pretty sure ALL my drawings are gone. I used to draw Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Manhattan all the time as a kid, very similar to yours.


I also used to build cities with a mixture of blocks and any other objects I could find that would work, and since San Francisco has so many hills, I would always put a blanket over a chair and try to make it look like hills and mountains, and then put buildings on top of those. I also had a pretty extensive collection of Brio trains as a little kid, and I would put rings of elevated tracks all throughout these cities, and they would get very complicated.

In the end, my older sister would just knock all them over in a few seconds and piss the shit out of me.


also I found it odd that you put Manhattan from a western perspective in this picture...

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3637/000001ds6.jpg

as a little kid I would always draw Manhattan from an easter one.

[Patrick]

^Aww mean I'd love to see pics of those!

Most of my old Manhattan Drawings didnt really make sence, for example, in that pic, Downtown and Midtown's buildings have been reversed, the ESB and WTC area seem to be the only right ones. Plus Obviously the Manhattan and Brookyln Bridges dont meet at Liberty Island and join into a freeway that enters Manhattan.

I usually looked at a few postcards of New York my family gave me and sort of changed New York in my own way. When I was 5 or 6 the only real noticable buildings where The Twin Towers, ESB, Chrysler Building and Citicorp Center. All 4 towers would be spaced out in that order.

[Mocholate]

:haha: how cute , i wish i could even remember what i was interested in at that age , let alone have any momento's :P

[Patrick]

Here are some moreee.

New York City, 2000
Good thing mamama dated it, although all she put was the year 2000 atop.

Well its Lower Manhattan from the Empire State Building. I'm pretty sure I used a picture, the buildings seem pretty accurate.

This is really one of my first uncolored Pencil Pictures. My current style is uncolored drawings using dark pens.

http://i10.tinypic.com/6270hhk.jpg

Birthday Present for Mom
No date! Gotta be August 1999.

My mom watched the News every day she came home from work, particually ABC 7 news in the late noon, KTLA 6 in the morning.

ABC 7 always showed a helicopter over Downtown LA using news effects and such. So I did a the ABC 7 Helicopter over DTLA.

Whether I used a picture or not, The skyline is partly inaccurate.

From Left to right: You'll notice all the (Then)'s due to Downtown LA's everchanging building tenants.

1100 Wilshire, (Then) Arco Plaza, Unknown Tower probably made up, 777 Tower, (Then) Citicorp Center, California Plaza Towers (Should be on the way right), (Then) First Interstate Tower, (Then) AT&T Center, Gas Company Tower, (Then) Arco Tower, (Then) Library Tower, (Then) Citicorp Center,(Then) Bank Of America tower, (Then) SBC Communications Tower, (Then) Sanwa Bank Center, (Then) Arco Center, and the Wells Fargo Center.

The funny thing is the Logos I got right was, ARCO. First Interstate Said FletIntete, Sanwa Bank said Stuek scribble scribble, and so Close, Wells fargo said WFLLS FARGO.

The Background has the district of Century City, Hollywood, the Hollywood Sign or in this case HLWOOD, and Mount Baldy.

http://i10.tinypic.com/4xprymw.jpg

The Manhattan Bridge
New York's Manhattan Bridge. Apparantly, the drawing was made on 1/9/1999.

The pic is quite Innacutate, although the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, and Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, which has been greatly shortened, the Manhattan Bridge connects Brookyln and Lower Manhattan, not Brooklyn and Midtown.

http://i10.tinypic.com/4qdx007.jpg

New York City
No date, i'm guessing 2000

Many major buildings such as the World financial Center, Twin Towers are seen. The Statue of Liberty, Chase Manhattan Bank, 40 Wall Street, and many other real life buildings are seen.

The Sun, is actually a sticker :haha:

http://i7.tinypic.com/53h6asp.jpg

Chicago city
No Date, I'm guessing 1998 - 1999

Chicago, I remember this one. I copied off the buildings from SkyscraperPage.com's early diagrams by Dylan, and put them in the proper places.

http://i16.tinypic.com/6bkz62u.jpg

Los Angeles
No Dates, gotta be 1999 - 2000.

Both copied off pictures/postcards.

One from Doger Stadium, one from the Freeway, both roughly from the same angle. In second pic, you'll notice I added some of LA's buildings to the right, that wouldnt have continued from the right.

http://i9.tinypic.com/4kjd3ip.jpg

[foxmtbr]

Awesome!

[Peter]

those are outstanding for a child to draw. you really knew your cities! i liked to draw when i was younger, but i didn't pick up an interest in buildings till i was older. i don't think i've ever drawn a city by hand before.