Creating the art

Creating these images require time, patience and passion as all of Hartwig’s images are drawn by hand and the play with perspective to create a "fish-eye" effect is done freehand.

Smaller images would normally take a week or two to draw but a full and detailed panoramic image could take up to several months to do and involves drawing every single building sometimes up to 20-30 times. He uses bird’s eye view pictures, city maps and his personal experience gained from walking around the areas illustrated. This enables him to capture the bustling energy of a city with vibrant colours and imaginative perspectives.For some of the images the underlying layout and structure of the city is planned and drafted first and on this layout the buildings are placed one next to another (all by hand sketching) until the image is completed. Some images, however, can grow organically without any planned layout - for example the panoramic view of London. 

When all the outlines for the individual buildings have been completed they are traced once more as one contiguous line drawing and then scanned onto the computer to be colourised digitally. This enables the creation of various colouring styles for the same hand-drawn outlines.

“When I first look at the blank paper, I don't really know where to start! But then I just put pen to paper, take a look at the book or the map and just sketch what I see in my mind. I get a great buzz when I see the image growing on the paper in front of me and I enjoy every single minute of it.” (H. Braun)

The Following images show the process in more detail. Notice the layers of tracing paper stack on top of each other and the use of different colours and pen thicknesses to slowly build the details from layer to layer:

Once Hartwig is happy with the details, perspective and look of the final drafts (and many many traces and layers later - up to 20 or 30 in some cases) he uses a thin black pen to create a final contiguous line drawing, which will be then scanned and colourised digitally:

Arty Globe by Hartwig Braun

This is our journey to explore Hartwig's unique talent to the full. Our aspiration is to find business partners around the globe who can use the unique quirky style and images in various ways in a wider context worldwide.

Isaac Lilos who's imagination was captured by Mr. Braun's talent, spotted the tremendous potential in his quirky and vivid style and is passionately working with him to explore his artistic potential to the full.

Mr. Lilos, blessed with imense positivisity and with endless energy reserves, has great passion for builidng long term & fruitful business

 relationships from concept to implemantation. This dynamic and friendly guy is always looking for creative, outside of the box, opportunities. In his spare time, he is either reading the latest business book or looking for the next business opportunity.

We are always actively looking for business partners to join its growing licensees list and would welcome any enquiries from UK & worlwide interested parties.

“It all started after I noticed a small illustration of Amsterdam done by Hartwig. I pestered him to do a full size image of London and after 6 months he finally agreed. Then he did Paris, New York and Berlin too. He puts a lot of time and energy into each of his hand drawn images. It is a great reward for us both to dee what amazing opportunities have opened to us in such a short period of time .” _{(I. Lilos)}