[James Raymond]

Holy flying Frankfurters! Sehr gut gemacht, Jai-C! Das best Arbeit habe ich in Jahre gesehen!8)

[Samuel]

P-E-R-F-E-C-T :)

[Jai-C]

Danke :)

Another Update - Spreedreieck, Berlin:

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7869&drawingID=22287

Olympiaturm, Munich:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=56&drawingID=22291

... and a little preview of my next drawing - Stephansdom, Vienna:
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/754preview_3.jpg

[James Raymond]

Ich will z�m Olympiaturm so viel gehen! Nur einhundertzwanzig Tage bis M�nchen!8)

[nilz01]

Holy flying cows... :eek:
You're truly the best there is!

[Jared]

the berlin tower looks so crisp, nice! i cant wait to see that church finished

[Jai-C]

Thanks guys!

I just finished Stephansdom:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=606&drawingID=22340

and an update - SV-Hochhaus, Munich:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7373&drawingID=22337

[Taylordaman]

omfg that Stephansdom is amazing. Holy shit...

Can I see the original? I'm amazed.

[Buck]

Incredible, Jai-C.

[Jai-C]

Thanks Buck and Taylor :)

@Taylor: The building was drawn in 2:1 scale. But some details were added after converting it to 1:1, so there's no real original drawing...

The 2:1 drawing
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/754stephansdom.jpg



New: Fernsehturm, Berlin:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=147&drawingID=22349

[James Raymond]

Ich versuchte Fernsehturm, aber ich hielt. Naturlich, ist das sehr nett!

[Samuel]

Wow both are very amazing.

IMO Stephansdom is your best drawing!

[Jai-C]

Thanks James and Samuel!

Berlin again:

Treptowers
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1359&drawingID=22369

[Jared]

the Fernsehturm is really well done. i like how the drawing shows how metallic the pod is

[Jai-C]

Thanks Jared!

Two more Berlin-Updates:

Atlas-Tower
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7934&drawingID=22429

Zoofenster
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2919&drawingID=22428

AND

Frankfurt's Millenium Tower
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=4315&drawingID=22431

[James Raymond]

Millenium Tower...

:eek:WOW!:eek:

[Jai-C]

Thanks James!

You might have noticed that I'm currently experimenting with a new drawing technique...

Next one!

Tower One - Frankfurt

http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=822&drawingID=22455

[Gulcrapek]

Yes, displaying floors as penetratable objects. I've tried that but never could get it to work. More advanced versions of the concept are probably the facades of the future.

[Jai-C]

Bank of China, Hong Kong

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=13&drawingID=22558

[James Raymond]

Toll! Soweit ist es die Beste!

[Flash]

That is an awesome Bank of China, excellent! Very photographic

[Samuel]

That is an awesome Bank of China, excellent! Very photographic

:yes:

[Sher]

That BOC and Stephansdom drawings are truly incredible. ;)

[Taylordaman]

OMG awsome! You are dabomb!

Why did you delete a lot of your older diagrams, like the Hong Kong ones and the Bank of America ib Seattle?

[Cliff]

OMG! BOC is .... WOW!!!

why don't you do Cheung Kong Center, the reflection itself is good enough to be in the primary!:D

[Jai-C]

Thanks guys :)

I plan to do a big update of my diagram - that's why I deleted some old drawings...

More new drawings

Noris Tower, Nuremberg:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=8104&drawingID=22600

Post Tower, Bonn:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2508&drawingID=22524

Berliner Tor 1 + 2, Hamburg:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=8164&drawingID=22646___http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=8164&drawingID=22647

[Buck]

Dude, if my new diagrams could like your old diagrams, I'd be plenty thrilled!

Excellent Work on those. They look so realistic, but almost even better than real.

[Jai-C]

Come on Buck - your drawings are excellent :tup:

New:

Stadttor, Duesseldorf:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7833&drawingID=22644

[mimil]

amazing works....

Excellent�@shading. :)

[Jai-C]

thanks mimil :)

Sony Center, Berlin:
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2812&drawingID=22697

[f16_freak]

wow wow wow. incredible!:eek:

[Tony]

Hey! That one is NIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Great job as always Jai!

[Samuel]

Amazing diagram for an amazing building!!!!!!

[Taylordaman]

Man you are amazing. You could make so much money making renderings for architects. Your work is so pro looking.

[Jai-C]

Thanks a lot guys :)

(Maybe I should become a professional skyscraper illustrator ;))

New:

Highcliff, Hong Kong
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1280&drawingID=22847

[Cliff]

Thanks a lot guys :)

(Maybe I should become a professional skyscraper illustrator ;))



You mean you're not?:D
Very nice!;)

[Jai-C]

Thanks Cliff :D


Another Update

Hochhaus an der alten Oper (formerly known as Zurich Tower), Frankfurt
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2998&drawingID=22882

[Samuel]

WOW :)

[ThisSideofSteinway]

Agreed with Gulcrapek... *cough*St.JohntheDivine*cough*

*cough*andriversidechurchwhileyou'reatit*cough* ;)

[Gulcrapek]

It's contagious. :(

[Jai-C]

Okay - St. John the Divine is on my list. But please be patient... drawing cathedrals takes a looong time and I'm rarely in the mood to spend that much time on a single drawing :D

Update:

Central Plaza, Hong Kong

Old: http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=112&drawingID=14501___ New:http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=112&drawingID=22917

[Buck]

Wow, I didn't know it good get better.

[R@ptor]

Your drawings are simply the best I've ever seen!! :tup:

Since you also like drawing cathedrals, castles and palaces...what about Castle Neuschwanstein :yes: , nobody has drawn this amazing castle yet :(

[Gulcrapek]

Thanks. If you need pictures of St. John, I have a crapload. But none of the back.

[R@ptor]

Agreed with Gulcrapek... *cough*St.JohntheDivine*cough*


St. John the Divine is the cathedral which started construction in the 1890s and isn't expected to be completed until 2050...just like the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona...right??? Is there even an existing plan of this cathedral of what it will look like one day when it is finished?

[Gulcrapek]

Yup, there are blueprints for everything. The only problem is money. They have next to none. They're currently raising funds to repair the cathedral after the 2001 fire, not even close to resuming building construction.

[Jai-C]

Thanks!

@Gulcrapek - if you have some good pictures please post them here or send me a mail... :)


New

Q1, Goldcoast:
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=4637&drawingID=22933

[Cliff]

GASP!!! That is beautiful!!!! Really brings out Q1

[Samuel]

Q1, Goldcoast:
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=4637&drawingID=22933


:eek:

[Jai-C]

Thanks Cliff & Samuel :)


Updated - Silvertower, Frankfurt:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=3026&drawingID=23058

[Gulcrapek]

Did you get my PM?

[Jai-C]

Did you get my PM?

Yes I did - but as I said before drawing cathedrals takes quite a long time.


Silvertower again (didn't like the previous version)
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=3026&drawingID=23095

[Gulcrapek]

No I know, I was just wondering.

[Jai-C]

Just felt like drawing something for London again :)

30 St Mary Axe - Swiss Re:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=3623&drawingID=23109

[Gulcrapek]

Le pickle. Or egg. Or condom on a misshapen phallus. It's nice.

[Sher]

Wow, another masterpiece! :tup:

[caw123]

Thats amazing!


It looks more like a bullet to me.

[John Hinds]

Why has your swiss Re have perspective on the right side?

Nice drawing BTW.

[Taylordaman]

Holy crap... You are just... well... words can't describe how good your drawings are.

[Jai-C]

Thanks a lot :)

@Jonny - There is no perspective... just a new technique in highlighting drawings I'm experimenting with.

[John Hinds]

No.
On the right hand side the floors are 1 pixel higher.

[Jai-C]

No.
On the right hand side the floors are 1 pixel higher.

No they aren't :D

If a building's is being lightened up on the side through transparency of glass then its floors will look dark (compared to the fascade). But if lightened up from the front they look bright and will drop a shadow... I combined these two effects - so you just confused floors and shadows!

[John Hinds]

I had a closer look and in the middle of the right side the floors are 2 pixels higher up in places.
Yet at the base and top they are 1 pixel higher and 1 pixel lower.

It may be a new lighting effect, but it is also called perspective.

[Jai-C]

I had a closer look and in the middle of the right side the floors are 2 pixels higher up in places.
Yet at the base and top they are 1 pixel higher and 1 pixel lower.

It may be a new lighting effect, but it is also called perspective.

Oh dear Jonny - I slowly get the impression that you just don't want understand....
you know I've been drawing for more than a year now and I know the damn rules - if there was any mistake I would just replace the wrong layer and correct it but there isn't! My drawing techniques are lightyears ahead of yours so this feels like explaining quantum physics to a child.

I suggest you lay down your membership of the approval committee due to incompetence and stop bothering ambitious illustrators.

[Samuel]

@ Jai-C very good drawing!
8)


This post is edited.:sleep:

[James Raymond]

Oh Jonny
Don't be so immature!
You have to to accept that there are better illustrators than you.
It's your own problem when you didn't use programs like Jai-C.
Use MS-Paint (that's obviously!!!!) and please do not nerve us anymore
THX:)


@ Jai-C very good drawing
Aber warum zeichnest du �berhaupt ein Diagramm f�r England wenn die Teetrinker so undankbar sind?:rolleyes:

Oh, I can just see where this is going.

Samuel-

Was ist so schlecht mit die Teetrinker? Vielleicht ist das Diagramm nicht das Best, aber John gut meint.

Jai-C-

Das Diagramm war sehr gut gemacht. Ich denke da� du mehr f�r London zeichnen sollst. :)

[R@ptor]

No.
On the right hand side the floors are 1 pixel higher.

Who cares about a floor which is 1!!! pixel higher? The drawing is simply great and definitely the best for SwissRe until now and that is what counts.

[John Hinds]

Its turned into an "i'm a better drawer than you" thread for what reason now?
I never said I was a better drawer than Jai-C.
I said I liked the drawing, I like it alot.

But it's pretty obvious that the "new lighting effect" makes the drawing look like it has perspective on one side.

[caw123]

Aber warum zeichnest du �berhaupt ein Diagramm f�r England wenn die Teetrinker so undankbar sind?:rolleyes:


Yes write it in German, we wont be able to understand that we are 'ungreatful drunkards'


It does look like it has perspective, wether it does or not, it looks like it.

[Samuel]

@caw1123
I wrote it in German because i don't no the word
"�berhaupt" and "undankbar" in English.So it was easier for me to write it in German.;)
and when I talk to Jai-C why should i write in English....

@Jonny 5 and i don't said that you are worser.But you criticize many drawings even if they are very good!
For example
One Canada Square(page 12)
Who cares about trees??:???: :sly

[John Hinds]

^I didn't say you said my drawings are bad.
Read Jai-C's post.

One Canada Square's nearest tree is almost 15m away from the base of the tower.
And they are only skinny things at the moment.
View across the One Canada Square Plaza (Notice no trees anywhere near the building)
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/622/9dsc00153.jpg
So why should he draw 2 big bushy trees on it?
I never said his One canada Square was a bad drawing (its better than mine) I just asked why he had drawn 2 big bushy trees when none exist.

Why am I not allowed to ask those sorts of questions?

[Buck]

This argument ends right here. Any others posts related to it will be deleted.

Jonny- face the fact that sometimes you are wrong. And don't badger people.

I know what technique was used here, I've tried to use something similar to it before (but it didn't come out nearly as well as it does when SPE uses it). It may appeaar to be perspective, but its not. Its the way the windows are shaded.

Samuel- watch it. Next time I see you insult someone or a group of people, you will get more than a warning.

[Chris M]

Nice drawings SPE!!!
I was going to draw Swiss Bank Tower in London but you beat me to it! :D
It's quite a complicated building to draw. How long did it take you?

[Jai-C]

I really don't understand that... I've always been trying new techniques to make drawings look more realistic. I thought it was our common goal to improve the diagrams until they look like photos...

Now you tell me that my drawing was deleted - not for violation of rules but just for looking like. Considering that this was an attempt to achieve even more realism in a drawing this is very disappointing for me. Actually I feel like being punished for my perfectionism :(

Altogether I'm doubting if I should go on with drawing for this site. It has been my intention to improve my skills until I could achieve a photo like look but you stopped me halfway. Maybe this is not the right place to develop my full potential - maybe I aimed to high.

@Jonny - Sorry for insulting you I shouldn't have said so.


SPE

[f16_freak]

hey hey cool down Jai-C!! Continue drawing because your drawings are really good! Don't quit because of small obstacles like this! If you quit drawing it would be a real regret to all of us:(

[coth]

Guys, I noticed on diagram of Hong Kong - USP6 was deleted. :(
Why?

[Cliff]

Actually, it does not matter if the tree is there or not, in a diagram, everything is in one straight line, and if you continue to draw and draw, it will extend until the curvature of the earth prevents it.

I think your drawings are great, and to find flaws in your drawings when it is more accurate than anybody else's is just plain bias.

Just an example if a wrong drawing not noticed:
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=3031&drawingID=3029

You know you are respected here and lots of us like you, don't leave.;)

[Samuel]

You know you are respected here and lots of us like you, don't leave.;)



:laugh:

[Sher]

I enjoy every new drawings you did, it would be disappointing and a great lost for all of us if you leave. :(
And none of the diagrams in this site are perfectly accurate, it's too extreme if a tiny mistakes were made.

[Buck]

Jai-C, I have a request.

The Proscenium, Atlanta GA USA:

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/585/72proscenium.jpg
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=12791

SS.com has some great photos of it:
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=121249

[LeeWilson]

So yeah, why exactly was USP6 deleted?

[Cliff]

I don't know, but sometimes SPE deletes his own drawings to make way for improved versions of it, like the BOC.:)

[Jai-C]

Yes I deleted USP6 myself because I didn't want to have it in my diagram anymore.

I modified 30 St. Mary Axe so that it doesn't look like violating any rules:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=3623&drawingID=23274

Some recent updates:

2IFC, Hong Kong:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=11&drawingID=23240

Maintower, Frankfurt:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=3913&drawingID=23265

Empire State Building, New York
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=23&drawingID=23351

[Cliff]

Great drawings! 2IFC is nice!

[coth]

damn!
Cliff, 2IFC not is just nice! It's Superb realistic!:yes:

Jai, but why you don't want to have it in your diagram?
Drawing is really better than other USP6 drawing... :(

[James Raymond]

The Empire State's not too shabby. One suggestion would be if you could shift the center setback one pixel to the right. It looks just a little uneven. Otherwise, sehr nett, ja!

[Jai-C]

The Empire State's not too shabby. One suggestion would be if you could shift the center setback one pixel to the right. It looks just a little uneven. Otherwise, sehr nett, ja!

Hehe - I like it that shabby and dirty :D

@coth - it was too wide and didn't fit in.

[coth]

@Jai, wide what? 2IFC or USP6?

[Jai-C]

@Jai, wide what? 2IFC or USP6?
USP6

[Cliff]

But its a wide building, isn't it?:D

[winglun]

I like your IFC2. Don't give up.
Thanks for drawing so much for HK.

[Buck]

WOW, Empire State Building is so beautifully realistic! Incredible.

Jai-C, how bout my request? :)

[Jai-C]

Big thanks to all of you :)

WOW, Empire State Building is so beautifully realistic! Incredible.

Jai-C, how bout my request? :)
Sure - but please give me the building's height

[Gulcrapek]

ESB is great, but it's really too weathered and discolored looking. It would only look like that after a major rainstorm or something.

[Buck]

No height is confirmed, but I estimate 110 meters to the roof and 122 to the top of the spire.

[coth]

@Jai-C
USP6... sad:( that was a really better that other drawings...
by the way, your 2IFC is only secondary:( i think it must be as primary drawing :yes:

hmm, I see here is possible to request something, can I do this too?...

[Jai-C]

No height is confirmed, but I estimate 110 meters to the roof and 122 to the top of the spire.
Seems to me more like something around 90m to the roof and maybe 110m to the spire...

by the way, your 2IFC is only secondary i think it must be as primary drawing
I neither know why it wasen't chosen as primary nor am I the person to decide these things.

hmm, I see here is possible to request something, can I do this too?...
Requests are welcome, but as there are so many of them I cannot guarantee that I will finally draw them.

[Buck]

Yeah, you are probably right. I was including the top "boxy" thing in with the roof height. But yeah, you are probably closer.

[coth]

Requests are welcome, but as there are so many of them I cannot garantee that I will finally draw them.

well, ok.

how about Naberezhnaya Tower in Moscow?
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=24263
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=25549
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=25550

three buildings in one complex
block c: 86 meters
block b: 135 meters
block a: 250 meters

here (http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&stype=1&thumb=1&si=<b25549>) is three evening renderes from different angles and one day rendering, but thin.

buildings will be faced by green glass and aluminium.

[Taylordaman]

ESB = perfect. That is great. But I like your old IFC more for some reason. I think you should keep it in your personal diagram still.