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Drawing cities
« on: April 18, 2010, 07:30:54 AM »
I see that many people on this forum like Sim City 4. Does anyone else also draw cities? Feel free to upload the cities you've drawn, if you have a scanner or something else. I like to draw cities, this is how I draw them (sorry for it being so big, my scanner also works perfectly as a microscope).

And this is the biggest city I've drawn: Blaland

Btw, just a reminder (because we've had a lot of posts about Sim City 4 here), we have a topic about Sim City, so I recommend posting there if your posts are only about the game, and not related to drawing cities in any way. :)

Link: http://universesandbox.com/forum/index.php/topic,426.0.html
« Last Edit: July 10, 2011, 10:24:38 AM by Bla »

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2010, 08:56:10 AM »
Hahaha! It works as a microscope!

I don't have a scanner, and when I was younger I would do that and then make street courses like Need For Speed Underground and Most Wanted...

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2010, 09:35:39 AM »
I used to draw racing courses when I was younger too. I liked racing and racing cars when I was younger, I have both of those games, even though I liked racing with "real" racing cars and courses better, like Gran Turismo.

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2010, 10:16:02 AM »
I can't wait till GT5 comes out in November!!!!!!!!!! HEHEHE

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2010, 10:23:04 AM »
Sadly I've decided not to buy a PS3, so I can't play it. :( :( :(
It sounds so awesome, with more than six cars in a race. :P

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2010, 11:07:52 AM »
16 ftw! haha

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2010, 10:26:49 AM »
That's really cool. I like it.

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2010, 10:47:48 AM »
16 ftw! haha
Yes, far better than six... But still... Le Mans isn't Le Mans without at least 40 cars. :P

That's really cool. I like it.
Thanks. :)

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2010, 04:38:51 PM »
I've always loved drawing train routes, but now i don't, i play a game and make realistic ones on there, but i also like drawing cities, til i got sim city 4 :P then cities XL

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2010, 05:19:08 PM »
I've always loved drawing train routes, but now i don't, i play a game and make realistic ones on there

RailWorks? It won't work for me.

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2010, 05:20:11 PM »
Yes, far better than six... But still... Le Mans isn't Le Mans without at least 40 cars. :P

I hear NASCAR is gonna be in there. Nascar isn't NASCAR without 43 cars. Although, as long as EA doesn't make it, I'm happy. Polyphony ftw

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2010, 10:05:16 PM »
I also both have SimCity 4 (my old favorite game) and Cities XL. But there's still nothing like drawing a city. :P
There's much more freedom.

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2010, 10:06:00 PM »
I agree but I don't draw any, but  I drew one before. I lost it, or did I?

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2010, 10:08:02 PM »
I can take a picture of it when I find it if I can and it's in red ink and on notebook paper. It's messy, so I'll clear it with Photoshop.
« Last Edit: April 19, 2010, 10:12:10 PM by deoxy99 »

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2010, 10:14:07 PM »
I always use pencils, and do this:
1) Draw the land and water borders.
2) Draw the first roads.
3) Begin to draw buildings.
4) Erase the borders on the roads where you want new roads to cross etc., and draw the new roads.
5) Draw more buildings along them.

Simplified. But that's how I do it most of the time.

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2010, 10:19:07 PM »
I just draw. I don't care about mountains...I don't put them, I just draw the land mass, then the buildings, then the roads, and I just remember to not make the lines of the sides converge, I just make the roads in a way that is normal.

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #16 on: April 20, 2010, 04:05:46 PM »
Look at it here!

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #17 on: April 22, 2010, 05:33:51 AM »
Yes, that looks very good. :) Another way to draw them. :)

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2010, 03:30:51 PM »
Maybe I can find one I have drawn...

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #19 on: April 24, 2010, 10:06:25 AM »
I drew that at school by the way, and my (mean) friend told me I needed names for the streets and a name for my city, and that is what I got.
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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #20 on: April 27, 2010, 02:04:58 PM »
I've always loved drawing train routes, but now i don't, i play a game and make realistic ones on there

RailWorks? It won't work for me.

nope, trainz 2009 world builders edition, but ya i have that too :P

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2010, 01:27:45 PM »
Soon, I might upload my drawing of Blaland... If I can find a site which hosts 1.98GB/709 megapixel images... :P

A preview of Blaland is available in my newest video:
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If anyone should happen to know such a site, they're more than welcome to tell me. :)

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #22 on: October 02, 2010, 02:16:20 PM »
HOLY MOTHER THAT IS MASSIVE

Oh yeah, sometimes I draw cities as well.

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #23 on: October 02, 2010, 02:27:58 PM »
:P

If you have a scanner, you could upload them. It could be funny to see how other brains control organisms to draw cities. :)

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #24 on: October 02, 2010, 02:36:55 PM »
It could be funny to see how other brains control organisms to draw cities. :)

Okay...

I don't has a scanner... Nor do I know where any of my drawn cities are. I will search for some if I remember. I have my handy light that creates no shadow due to the epic angleage that I can manipulate from it.
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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #25 on: October 02, 2010, 02:37:39 PM »
Okay...? ???

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #26 on: October 02, 2010, 02:43:09 PM »
How two human beings on entirely different continents can be told by their brainz to draw a city.

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #27 on: October 02, 2010, 02:43:46 PM »
How two human beings on entirely different continents can be told by their brainz to draw a city.
:P

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Re: Drawing cities
« Reply #28 on: October 02, 2010, 02:46:13 PM »
Read. :P

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« Reply #29 on: October 02, 2010, 02:57:27 PM »