by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 25, 2022 | Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 12 Summerfest, Uncategorized |
It has been a while since my last post, the longest amount of time I have ever taken away from this website actually. As much as I love illustrating architecture, I love doing other things too and sometimes there isn’t enough time to do both. Besides working...
by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 29, 2021 | Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 12 Summerfest |
This series of illustrations were initially meant to be a quick study of the contextual environment. However, I ended up really pouring a lot of time into them, constantly reworking the images, changing views, changing lighting, reworking the images again, etc....
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 11, 2021 | Project 12 Summerfest |
I recently took a long road trip back to Ohio to see family that I haven’t seen in over a year and a half. It is such a contrast leaving the density of an urban environment like Boston and traveling to the rural areas that I grew up in. The contrast is...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 5, 2021 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 5, Project 11 MIT Hub |
Sections are some of my favorite types of architecture illustrations to create because of how well they show the relationship of exterior to interior. Traditionally, section drawings are illustrated perpendicular to the cut with minimal perspective and presented in a...
by Alex Hogrefe | May 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
The 47th Krob Competition has put out a call for entries. Categories include Digital/Hybrid Media, Hand Delineation, Physical Delineation, Travel Sketch, and Animation. The 47th Ken Roberts Memorial Competition (KRob) is the longest-running architectural drawing...
by Alex Hogrefe | Apr 18, 2021 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 11 MIT Hub, Styles / Effects |
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,...
by Alex Hogrefe | Feb 27, 2021 | Break Down, Project 11 MIT Hub |
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 23, 2021 | Break Down, Project 11 MIT Hub |
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Dec 23, 2020 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 11 MIT Hub |
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Dec 6, 2020 | Break Down, Project 11 MIT 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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 27, 2020 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 10 Prairie Office |
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 6, 2020 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 10 Prairie Office |
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 18, 2020 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 10 Prairie Office |
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....
by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 19, 2020 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 10 Prairie Office
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 23, 2020 | Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 09 Porter Square, Uncategorized |
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 10, 2020 | Break Down, Final Moves, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 10 Prairie Office, Uncategorized |
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | May 21, 2020 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 10 Prairie Office, Uncategorized |
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Apr 20, 2020 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 10 Prairie Office |
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Mar 31, 2020 | Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 10 Prairie Office, Uncategorized |
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...
