How To Draw Gotham style Cities - Tutorial (Perhaps Only) 1 - Form and understructure

There are 2 main Great Cities of Cinema Production Design, if you don't Count Moebius, and the films Blade Runner and Metropolis. 2 Cities which all other animation cities are based on:

Neo-Tokyo (Katsuhiro Otomo) and Gotham City (Batman/Bruce Timm / Ted Blackman Mythos)

Today I am going to demonstrate the essential form of a Gotham-style City.

It's all about building and skyscraper proportions.

Though it does contain divergence, a cities not a city without buildings of parallel height.

If you want to draw cityscapes, start with a pattern of elongated half full rectangles, like rectangular bars.

This is a back-ground foreground trick. This is one way to create the illusion of structure:

DRAW SOMETHING RESEMBLING THIS:

I drew it freehand, but if you're drawing REAL drawings of cities (not sketches, doodles, and warmups like mine here) you really need to use rulers.