A brief flight, a huge drawingSourced
Tokyo became a ten-metre panorama from memory
In May 2005, Stephen Wiltshire drew a ten-metre panorama of Tokyo from memory after a brief helicopter flight. The drawing took seven days to complete. A short encounter with the skyline became a much longer process of putting it on paper.
The drawing session greatly outlasted the sightseeing.
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Reviewed: 2026-10-05