By Sarah Currier on March 2, 2024

By using digital editing, Nikita Busyak is able to make the windows in his architectural drawings glow golden.

There is nothing quite as magical as seeing a city come alive at night. This experience is precisely what Nikita Busyak captures in his ongoing glowing city sketch series.

Busyak draws beautiful cityscape scenes with Micron pens, using precise linework and shading techniques, before digitally modifying the drawings by filling them in with light. This effect makes the windows look like they are glowing, and golden light emanates from them onto the nearby sidewalks and balconies. His artwork is incredibly intimate, and it is hard to look at Busyak’s drawings and not be reminded of the last great evening walk you had. […]

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