Prolific iPhone sketcher and six-time 20x200 edition-maker Jorge Colombo has posted an interesting look into the process behind his drawings called "Night Lights". The New Yorker, for whom Jorge does one iSketch a week, has also covered the process, but here we hear from the artist himself.

On capturing the likeness of a city, Jorge writes,

My Finger Paintings series, running in thenewyorker.com since last June, or published as prints by 20x200.com, has been a road map to plunder icons from the city I've lived in for the past eleven years. They're a bit of likeness portraits: stripped of recognizable indicators, what makes a landscape feel like New York and not like somewhere else? I don't shy away from famous buildings or vistas, but I'm happy when a non-descript stretch of street bears the details, proportions, light, and feel, that clearly brand it as Manhattan. A series I started last summer in San Francisco worked the same way: what's the shorthand to best convey this city? What does it really look like here?

On how drawing on a iPhone has changed his work, he writes,

It has been widely reported that my drawings are now made on an iPhone... Considering all the sketches and watercolors and photographs I have done in the USA for the past twenty years, my output in the Brushes app since I bought a G3 last February is still rather small...In the process, something has changed in my drawings. I discovered a brushstroke looseness I could have embraced ages ago, were I not busy with my precise watercolors. It all came from tailoring one's approach to better suit the tool. Sharp line work and controlled coloring are not that easy when you're drawing with your finger on a surface smaller than a credit card. But loose smudges, and bright layered colors, are naturals. So I simply embraced the language suggested by the equipment.

To read the rest of the piece, head over to Drawger and then stop by 20x200 to grab your very own iSketches.