The recent Last month’s issue of Dwell magazine had a very interesting feature about an artist—or draftsman as the magazine referred to him—named Hugh Ferriss. His renderings of buildings and other architectural structures are just amazing. I love that they’re sort of realistic and other-worldly at the same time. Their unusual combination of precision and almost painterly richness is truly something to behold. Makes me want to dig out my Monolith and Fabriano.
There’s a great set of Ferriss’ work on Flickr. There is also a nice (and arguably more articulate) post about it here.