by Alex Hogrefe | Nov 24, 2012 | Portfolio Vol. 2 |
I never really used Indesign much in school. However, we use it on a daily basis in the office. Knowing what I know now, I wish I would have implemented it more back in school. Indesign is another Adobe product that serves as a powerful layout tool. The program...
by Alex Hogrefe | Nov 5, 2012 | Final Moves |
I thought I would pull another move from the Bob Ross play book. He was always great at creating depth in his paintings by saturating and darkening the elements that were closest to the viewer and then lightening the hills and mountains further off in the distance....
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 21, 2012 | Fundamentals |
I have posted in the past on how to create interior elevations/sections by only using Photoshop, but I never posted on exterior elevations. The workflow that I use for exterior elevations really isn’t much different than the workflow that I use for...
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 14, 2012 | Portfolio Vol. 3, Styles / Effects |
I have always been intrigued by exploded axonometric illustrations. They add a kinetic aspect to what is typically very stagnate fixed objects. Even more though, I like how a successful exploded axon depends on a clear understanding of all...
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 30, 2012 | Uncategorized |
I spent this past week and weekend cramming for the LEED GA exam and luckily was able to pass it and put it behind me. Because of that, I wasn’t able to get much work done for the blog. However, I have been getting a lot of questions asking what kind of...
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 23, 2012 | Break Down |
I randomly decided this weekend that I wanted to go all out on a building section. I have been spending a little of my free time detailing an old studio project just to have some new geometry to illustrate and present on the site. I really liked some of the...
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 9, 2012 | Styles / Effects |
I wanted to go into more depth about how I created the sketch look. Images like these depend almost entirely on the textures you use. I spend a lot of my time scavenging images online as well as creating my own to get the exact style that I am looking for....
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 2, 2012 | Break Down, Styles / Effects |
I spent the weekend modeling up an old studio project that I designed my sophmore year in undergrad. It’s something I have been wanting to do for a while since the original project was done by hand i.e. no computer. I was able to scan and scale my old hand drawn...
by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 19, 2012 | Styles / Effects |
Every so often, I come across situations where I want to loosen up my illustrations and give them a more gestural quality. Growing up, I painted a lot and I have always experimented with ways to carry over the brush stroke into my digital architectural illustrations...
by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 8, 2012 | Break Down |
Last week I described the work flow of generating a plan oblique illustration from a Sketchup model. This week, I wanted to follow that up with how I added color and texture to the SU exports to achieve the image above. The steps to create the above...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 29, 2012 | Portfolio Vol. 3, Styles / Effects |
I have been experimenting with some old-school plan oblique illustrations. This was one of the first 3-dimensional views I learned to draft by hand in school. What is great about these types of illustrations is that they can be used as scaled measured drawings...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 15, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Thought I would quickly post an image that is meant to be a throwback to the old hand drawn axonometric drawings.
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 11, 2012 | Styles / Effects |
Every so often, there comes a time when I need to illustrate a brushed stainless steel finish like the column in the above image. In my experience, adjusting the “shininess” settings in any rendering program to get that brushed look dramatically...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 2, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Thought I would post some pics I took while in Savannah GA. I figured now would be a good time to work on my HDR workflow. Some of the pics were shot with a DSLR, but most most were with a point and shoot. ...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 23, 2012 | Break Down |
I’m getting ready to head to Savannah, GA (flying out tonight actually) for a week, which doesn’t leave much time for this latest post. I spent this afternoon creating a night scene illustration using a really simple Kerkythea base image. At first,...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 17, 2012 | Break Down, Styles / Effects |
Every once and a while, there comes a time to produce an illustration that is a little more abstract in style. Such cases in the past included situations where the design wasn’t developed to the point that a full blown rendering could be produced, or where I...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 10, 2012 | Break Down, Uncategorized |
I spend a lot of my time going onto Google Earth/Bing maps studying sites and grabbing screen shots. However, I find these sources equally useful for textures and finding site plan elements. For example, in my last post, I uploaded an image of a site...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 5, 2012 | Uncategorized |
This image is taking a bunch of the different tutorials and posts on this website and mixing them together. Notice the lawn mower stripes in the grass haha. It’s all about the details. ...
by Alex Hogrefe | May 28, 2012 | Over Time |
This post is continuing off of the 4 boards discussed last week. To get up to speed on what I have already done so far, read this first. For the most part, I kept the overall layout of the original presentation, however, I have been tweaking certain elements...
by Alex Hogrefe | May 20, 2012 | Over Time |
My last post discussed some architectural presentation boards that were, for the most part, poorly organized. I wanted to go into this week’s post discussing some presentation boards that were almost up to par, but just needed some tweaking. I also...
