city

This is part of a broader idea for a big busy city teeming with different characters. Some of those characters will travel deeper through this city and through different lands. Eventually they get back to where they started from.

Acrylic on paper format A3

Pen and ink drawing of the buildings on the Graslei in Ghent (Belgium).

Some bicycles in front of a statue and a bicycle shop. Sittard, The Netherlands. I am not quite happy , the way the statue worked out. I should have used a smaller nib for that.

This was meant to be a quick 4”x 5” piece but somehow sucked up way more time than I’d planned. From my own photo for reference.

This is part of an ongoing series.

Deep sea city.

This is one of my artworks in high school. Follow my Instagram account the.rainmaker_ to enjoy more artworks. https://www.instagram.com/the.rainmaker_/

16x20 acrylic and ink on wood.

Colored pencil and ink on pastel paper.

The monsters we create A collection of creatures born from our impact and existance on Earth. This is a work in progress project, it doesn't yet have a name, but the story becomes more clear every day. Soon I will have more details about it, until then take care, this runner is taking a real shape and it's after you. He is the money maker, the greedy, the selfish buyer of unnecessary things with money he doesn't have. Sounds familyar? 7x7 cm linoprint © Maria ! Balan, 2018

Made with gel ink pen for a future art book about mediterranean way of life. Here is crowded Istanbul city

Page 18 of my Journey Journal. A study of my first impressions of the city of Berlin. Ink, gouache, watercolour on toned paper.

8x12 acrylic and ink on wood with wooden frame.

in the streets of Nice, looking up

#Swollen is the word for #inktober #day17. Because the city I live in is swollen from cars, buildings, humans, rats, pigeons, dirt and trash I considered the word to be proper for the problem of urbanization. Even if it's a natural transformation, it comes with a lot of issues. I see it as a concrete and steel monster eating the nature that stands in its way. © Maria!Bălan, 2018

Cityscape illustration inspired by the legendary animator Katsuhiro Otomo and the movie Akira. A5, Sharpie Pens, 2022

The old city gate (the 'Sassenpoort') in Zwolle.

Went to another city by train with lead time about 3 hours & sketched inside the train

Illustration of my ideal living environment

Graphics on artificially aged paper. Mixed media, ink, acrylic, 70x53 cm, 2025

Abstract painting "The Dark City". Canvas on cardboard, acrylic, 30x40 cm, 2023

What startet as a somewhat mindless marker-sketch at a cafè while having a conversation later came out as a pretty cool cityscape. Probably inspired by the movie Tekkon Kinkreet, which I watched previously.