Abraham Gómez did it again.
After hand-drawing La Plata, Rosario, Quilmes and Mataderos, among other cities, this social media sensation illustrator did the same with the
City of Buenos Aires
.
It was one of the sites that his followers requested the most.
“I had it in mind a little,
they had been asking me for it a little
,” Abraham told Clarín.
In his last great work - the most important to date - between 15 and 18 Buenos Aires neighborhoods appear.
“Some are more complete than others,” the artist clarified.
The original version, the one he has in his house in La Plata, measures 50x70.
And he will stay there until he gets tired.
His most ambitious work
-
Is absolutely the entire City of Buenos Aires there?
-To a large extent, yes.
Somehow what I do is not so generic.
I have limitations: the size, the view, the thickness of the microfiber I use.
I extract as much information as I can so I can take it to the block.
The composition is apple by apple.
I go grid by grid of the city.
That is why it is in volumetry and seen from above.
Abraham Gómez is 30 years old and studies architecture.
Photo: X
Abraham used the satellite maps of Google Earth and Google Maps as a base and was encouraged to complete places in CABA that are still half done.
“What I add has to do with the information I handle.
For example, in the City there are certain places that are not finished, but at some point they will be.
I researched what their shapes are and added them.
I don't want to miss them,” Abraham said.
One of these sites that Gómez "invented" is the viaduct that connects Belgrano Sur with Plaza Constitución, “which is not finished but is going to happen.”
The architecture
student
,
known
in
And the last?
The 10th of January.
Part of the City of Buenos Aires illustrated by Abraham.
Photo: Abraham Gómez
The
final
sprint was very important.
On the first day of 2024, Abraham set out to finish the missing 40% of the map.
“I knew that the City of Buenos Aires was going to have its complexity,” he acknowledged.
Unlike the map of La Plata, which he made in twenty days, CABA took him several months of work.
Of course: he did it in interrupted days.
He dedicated between one and two hours a day to drawing.
“With full work time I would have finished it in much less time.”
To do it he mainly used technical drawing materials: refillable microfibers, pencils, rulers.
The impressive level of detail in the drawing.
Photo: Abraham Gómez
Fury in networks
His creation exploded on X, a social network where people asked many questions.
The one that appeared the most: "
Why?"
highlighted Gómez, who assures that the idea was born from the mixture of two of his passions:
cities and drawings
.
-Do they tell you that you are crazy?
-Yeah.
There is a bit of madness
, because not everyone is sent to draw cities like that.
I always take it as a joke, I have no problem with that.
They tell me “what a mess you are” and most of them don't know that what I do is my regular job, the only one I have.
Most of the comments are also positive.
He sells his works on his website.
Photo: Abraham Gómez
When Abraham says that drawings are his "regular job" he means that many - most - are made to order.
People talk to him in private messages and ask him for cities.
The price varies depending on how much work it takes to make the map.
Many of the drawings he made on request are offered on his website Gómezilustra in different sizes.
That is his other source of employment.
However, not all cities lend themselves to the sheet format.
Ushuaia, for example, considers it very difficult due to its shape.
While drawing, Abraham listens to music or documentaries.
There is a part of him that he cries out to end, but another that relaxes him.
He serves as therapy.
Abraham Gómez and his map of La Plata.
Photo: X
-What happens if you make a mistake at an advanced level of your drawing?
-It's rare that it happens.
I try not to, it would change my whole scheme.
I make sure that first, in the pencil stage, the preliminary, everything is right.
With that well-made foundation I have a 98% chance that the work will turn out well.
The most difficult stage is building the city
.
-How is everything going? Are you going for more?
-Buenos Aires was the top of the range that I wanted to do.
I would like to continue in Argentina.
Maybe Córdoba, Mendoza.... or Montevideo.
I would love other countries too.
I would like it quite a bit.
Abraham Gomez
Beyond the economic value he places on his drawings, Abraham believes that just being able to show them and have people like them makes him happy.
And for that he is grateful.