Imagine being able to draw a city skyline in near-perfect detail after just seeing it once. Well, that’s exactly how one artist drew Milwaukee.
The artist is Stephen Wiltshire. He’s considered a savant. After a brief helicopter ride, he memorizes a city’s skyline, like Milwaukee, and then draws it. No reference materials at all. He has traveled all over the world doing this.
“New York City, Chicago, Washington D.C., Tokyo, and Hong Kong,” Stephen Wiltshire said, just to name a few.
Wiltshire was diagnosed with autism at three years old. He discovered his passion and talent for drawing cityscapes and buildings while he was a child…