Who is Stephen Wiltshire?

Stephen Wiltshire was born in London in 1974. He is known for his incredible drawings of cityscapes.

Stephen can draw from memory after seeing scenes for a very short time.

When he was three years old, Stephen was diagnosed with autism.

He first communicated with others using his drawings as he was mute.

Stephen was awarded an MBE for services to the art world in 2006.

This is a drawing of Stephen Wiltshire's large-scale artwork of Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong from 2005, which was 10 metres long. It includes:

• a cityscape
• horizontal and vertical lines
• perspective
• a variety of drawing techniques including hatching and cross-hatching

Stephen Wiltshire uses his amazing memory to make drawings with lots of details.

Try and use your memory to draw an image. You could:

• simply think of something from your memory
• look out of a window
• find an image in a book or use an old photograph
• look at an object in the room you are in.

Try to remember as many details as you can, then look away and draw everything that you can recall.

• Stephen Wiltshire draws every single day.
• His motto is do the best you can and never stop.
• Stephen is a fan of American cars.
• At school, Stephen would often draw his teachers.
• Stephen's first words were paper and pencil (just like the artist Pablo Picasso).