British artist, Patrick Vale, is becoming increasingly popular for is amazing pen and ink drawings. His specialization is architectural illustrations which he executes in such meticulous detail that it is difficult to understand that he does not have a background in architecture.

His portfolio contains a wide variety of projects from artistic interpretations of future buildings for architectural firms, which he brings to life as not computer software could, to his own artwork. Whether he is drawing an aerial view of a city by day or night or simply a street view, his perspective and the intricacy of his work has attracted a great deal of attention in the world of art and illustration.

A video of Patrick Vale drawing his interpretation of New York from the Empire State Building demonstrates just how much painstaking detail goes into his work, which takes hours to complete in order to produce his fascinating drawings.