Chris Dent, digital illustration

London-based illustrator Chris Dent focuses on incredibly detailed but sparsely colored bird’s eye views of cities. Chris Dent has a talent for visually lifting a city’s skeleton, and then applying a depth of detail in his illustrations to reveal its suggestive soul.

Captivating his love of architecture, metropolitan cityscapes and environments, his precise pen work showcases a style solitary to his own. Chris graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in London in 2006, where he studied Illustration.


 His work explores his fascination and intrigue within all forms of buildings, cities and inner city life. Chris creates obsessive energetic visions of city life, with the majority of his work in mono. Much of his early work has been based on his fascination with NYC and street culture incorporating his love for music; this can been seen in recent publications for Capital Records, Zoo York, Jones LaSalle, Pernod, Don't Panic, The Great Eastern Hotel, Oki-ni, Swindle Mag, Kingpin, Dazed and Confused, Lodown, Noise, Purpose, Point, Illustrated Ape.

I really like Dent's work as it has a lot of detail that is made up of simple lines, He uses a minimum ammount of colour that is not bold and in your face but is a calm more natural wich gives his work the "nice to look at effect.


Although his work is busy the pale colours help it to seem more relaxed and still stay interesting at the same time.