Water Reflection Tutorial (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLLEJ2xbIVE Taking inspiration right out of the Bob Ross playbook, I put together this little tutorial showing a really easy and fast way to Photoshop a water reflection into an architectural illustration. You may...
Night Rendering: Water Bob Ross Style
I watched Bob Ross a lot as a kid. He was a master at simplifying painting techniques. One technique in particular was how he created reflections in water. He seemed to be able to create them with just a few brush strokes which got me thinking if I could apply...
KRob 2011
The 2011 Krob competition winners have been announced and can be seen at www.krobarch.com. I found out about this competition a few years ago and have been visiting the site off and on ever since. The competition encourages unique styles of architectural...
Abstracting Dead Renderings
I'm always looking for ways to take renderings that just aren't working and turn them into something that can be used for portfolios or cover pages. This tutorial is about as simple as it gets in terms of difficulty and speed. In the example below, the initial...
Winter Special
I don't know if I'm just in the holiday spirit, but I thought I would write a post about winterizing an illustration. In essence, this tutorial takes your typical daytime rendering and turns it into a snowy winter scene, which is easier than you might think. ...
Thesis Diagrams
I grabbed some of my favorite diagrams developed for my thesis project from a few years back. They actually have been living in this site under the "about me" section, but you have to dig a little to get to them. I wanted to post them because they were really...
Cutting Out Objects: 7 Methods
Over the years, I have come across many ways to extract objects out of an image. I still use most of them mainly because each method responds to certain situations where other methods won't work. There are 7 techniques that will be explained but I'm sure there...
Landscape Tutorial Continued: Final Post Processing
I posted a landscape video tutorial a few weeks back, however the video did not cover some final post processing steps used for the final look. I received some comments asking for an explanation so I thought I would put something together quickly. The steps are...
Workflow Video: Landscape Via Photoshop
This video builds off of the post from last week explaining the workflow I used to add landscaping elements via Photoshop. There was a lot of information to cover in a short amount of time, so the video slows down at important stages of the process and speeds...
Importance of Landscape
I put this illustration together this morning in hopes of showing how crucial landscaping is to an architectural illustration. This is something that always seems to be overlooked by a lot of students, and something I didn't take seriously until grad school. I...
Water Reflection Tutorial (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLLEJ2xbIVE Taking inspiration right out of the Bob Ross playbook, I put together this little tutorial showing a really easy and fast way to Photoshop a water reflection into an architectural illustration. You may...
Night Rendering: Water Bob Ross Style
I watched Bob Ross a lot as a kid. He was a master at simplifying painting techniques. One technique in particular was how he created reflections in water. He seemed to be able to create them with just a few brush strokes which got me thinking if I could apply...
KRob 2011
The 2011 Krob competition winners have been announced and can be seen at www.krobarch.com. I found out about this competition a few years ago and have been visiting the site off and on ever since. The competition encourages unique styles of architectural...
Abstracting Dead Renderings
I'm always looking for ways to take renderings that just aren't working and turn them into something that can be used for portfolios or cover pages. This tutorial is about as simple as it gets in terms of difficulty and speed. In the example below, the initial...
Winter Special
I don't know if I'm just in the holiday spirit, but I thought I would write a post about winterizing an illustration. In essence, this tutorial takes your typical daytime rendering and turns it into a snowy winter scene, which is easier than you might think. ...
Thesis Diagrams
I grabbed some of my favorite diagrams developed for my thesis project from a few years back. They actually have been living in this site under the "about me" section, but you have to dig a little to get to them. I wanted to post them because they were really...
Cutting Out Objects: 7 Methods
Over the years, I have come across many ways to extract objects out of an image. I still use most of them mainly because each method responds to certain situations where other methods won't work. There are 7 techniques that will be explained but I'm sure there...
Landscape Tutorial Continued: Final Post Processing
I posted a landscape video tutorial a few weeks back, however the video did not cover some final post processing steps used for the final look. I received some comments asking for an explanation so I thought I would put something together quickly. The steps are...
Workflow Video: Landscape Via Photoshop
This video builds off of the post from last week explaining the workflow I used to add landscaping elements via Photoshop. There was a lot of information to cover in a short amount of time, so the video slows down at important stages of the process and speeds...
Importance of Landscape
I put this illustration together this morning in hopes of showing how crucial landscaping is to an architectural illustration. This is something that always seems to be overlooked by a lot of students, and something I didn't take seriously until grad school. I...