It’s been a while since I did a drawing project. It used to be my thing before I started college. Drawing, for hours, cities and buildings on paper, with black ink ( I never liked pencil drawings–too dirty).
Last weekend, I finally had the chance to do a fairly large drawing project (about 25 hours of work). A drawing of the main square of my hometown, Durango, Mexico.
A colonial city, 500 years old, founded by the Spanish conquistadors as a local settlement along the “Royal Road,” which connected Mexico City with Santa Fe, now in New Mexico. The main purpose of this road was the transportation of precious minerals from the New World to Spain.
My city, founded near an iron hill which was though to be made out of silver, is now a 500,000 population state capital. During the last decade, the government has been restoring and even rebuilding much of the colonial heritage of the city.
It is a lovely town embedded between the western sierra and the desert of the Mexican Plateau. Hot and dry throughout the year, it is a great place to live in. This drawing is my orthogonal tribute to it.
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