MIT Site Plans and Diagrams
The past several weeks have been sort of a right-brain focus on image making. I wanted to play around with colors and textures and iterate on style a bit and not get lost in the technical and detailed side of things. However, before I started with the graphic studies,...
MIT Day Versus Night
A long time ago, I put together a day to night illustration for my Philly Bridge project. Back then, I had a hard time deciding what kind of scene lighting to go with so I just did both and ended up creating a tutorial around how you could shift an image from daytime...
MIT Student Hub: Pedestrian Street
One of the first views of the MIT project that I wanted to explore was an approach shot down a new proposed pedestrian street. It is not necessarily the most compelling view of the new architecture, but I like that the view shows how the student hub volumes reinforce...
Winter Special #9: MIT Courtyard
I was getting a little nervous there thinking I would run out of time but luckily I was able to squeeze this in before the holidays. This courtyard view represents the 9th Winter special image that I have created for this website. It is also the first highly detailed...
New Project: MIT Student Hub
I have begun a new personal visualization project to start off the winter season and help me switch things up a bit. As much as I liked working on the Texas Prairie Office, the project and scope was huge which meant every image required lots of design and time to...
Texas Prairie: Aerial Grass
This latest aerial image was probably my biggest undertaking up to this point in terms of difficulty of Photoshop. I struggled to get started on this illustration because I knew how complex it was going to be to stitch together all of the landscape elements. Because...
Texas Prairie: Glass
Illustrating glass is something I am constantly working on and studying. Glass is such a complex material in the sense that it can be highly reflective in some lighting situations and then completely transparent in other light situations. Finding the right balance of...
Texas Prairie: Abstractions
Every now and then, I need to switch things up. Sometimes this means not thinking too much about what the end result will be and just seeing where things go. I needed a break from "realism" and the focus on high res textures, accurate lighting, etc. Instead, I wanted...
KRob Competition
The 46th Krob Competition has put out a call for entries. Categories include Digital/Hybrid Media, Hand Delineation, Physical Delineation, Travel Sketch, and Animation. Anybody who reads this blog knows how much of a fan I am of the unique architectural images and...
Texas Prairie: Detail Elevation
This has been an image that I started a while back and abandoned and then picked back up again. I wasn't sure how I wanted to approach it because of the amount of detail involved. This view is all about the activation of the interior space and making it feel lively...
Porter Sq. Interior
I am revisiting the Porter Square Station project because there was one more very important image that I needed to develop to finish telling this project's story. It was an image that I had started several times but kept abandoning. The problem was that the space was...
Texas Prairie: Color Grading
I don’t often discuss in detail how I tone images because the process ranges so much from image to image. Daytime images use different techniques compared to overcast images or dusky images. On top of that, sometimes I am in the mood to really experiment with color...
Texas Prairie Aerial
This was one of my more ambitious undertakings and an image I almost didn’t do. I had a lot of things going against me that made me second guess taking on this type of image. It was going to require a ton of Photoshop, the view is at an angle that tends to feel flat...
Texas Office Elevation
I created this illustration to tease out a few details with this project that I wasn't too sure about. For one, I had this idea of the meadow and trees flowing in and around the architecture so I wanted to setup an "easy" view angle where I could quickly test out how...
Big Office on the Prairie
As much as I love working on the Porter Sq Station redesign, I needed to change things up a bit so I started designing my next personal render project. We have been working on a lot of really interesting projects lately at Design Distill, and it has been spurring some...