by Alex Hogrefe | Nov 26, 2014 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center, Styles / Effects |
A thought that is often running through my head when working on architectural illustrations is how can I bring more of a human touch to the image. The answer is almost always through texturing in Photoshop. I have spent the last week illustrating an aerial perspective...
by Alex Hogrefe | Nov 9, 2014 | Break Down, Fundamentals, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center |
One of the very first tutorials I created for this site described a workflow that generated a night scene only using Photoshop. That tutorial used a very simple base image exported right out of Sketchup. The workflow is easy to implement and is especially...
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 26, 2014 | Fundamentals, Project 02 Cultural Center |
Architecture visualization is notorious for producing complex and messy PSD files. Sometimes, it’s the little things that can make a big difference and in my opinion, layer management is one of those little things that many people don’t put enough...
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 12, 2014 | Over Time, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center, Uncategorized |
As the 3d model progresses, I find myself spending a lot of time defining and organizing the way different elements are grouped in the model. I posted a video a while back showing a time lapse of the construction of one of my models. I rarely use layers but instead...
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 30, 2014 | Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center, Uncategorized |
These past two weeks have been crazy and if any of you follow my Facebook page, you know what I am talking about. However, with all of the change, I figured it would also be a good time to start a new project as well. The wharf design was a fun project to...