Cities and Videogames posters

[Saturn]

Sorry if this is inappropriate. If it's not in the right place, please let me know

A close friend of mine (someone I know personally for many years) is amazing at making hand sketches and also loves videogames. He's an architect/urban planner like me but he loves drawing and he's trying to make a living out of his passion for hand drawings and sketches.

Right now he's doing something very interesting. He's actually making A3-sized posters from cities and locations from popular videogames, all hand drawn by himself with just digital finish. Take a look at his work:

http://citiesandvideogames.blogspot.pt/
https://www.facebook.com/CITIESANDVIDEOGAMES?fref=ts

Here's more of his work:
https://www.facebook.com/stillsketch?fref=ts

He's currently working on a website where you'll be able to order printed copies of those posters. It should be done soon.

Please take a look and let me know what you think

[Mike1888]

Really cool. My favourite:

[Madigan]

In my opinion, the text ruins the poster. There's no need to add the "Stillsketch presents", "Cities and Videogames" and "Name of the city" on top of the drawing when you already have that information on the lower part. My eyes go automatically there, it's distracting, the drawing/sketch is the important part, the text is unnecessary. Keep everything on the white frame.

From the City 17 poster

It resembles a post-Soviet harbour city, featuring mostly eastern european architecture and the citadel, a massive 2500 meters high metalic skyscraper

And this is from wikipedia

City 17 visually resembles a post-Soviet harbor city featuring mostly Eastern European architecture. It features architecture styles dating from pre-World War II neoclassicism, post-war classical designs, Soviet modernism, and post-Soviet contemporary designs

It's a little similar, try to avoid it but I want more of this. You said he's an architect replace the "Aeris has been captured by Shinra..." and dedicate that paragraph analyzing the city, its morphology, etc etc etc. I think that adds a unique touch to the posters, just a short paragraph.

[Saturn]

I will let him know that, Thanks for the opinions. Right now those are the finished presentation images but I don't know if the print versions will be exactly like that.