by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 11, 2013 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 3 |
I was able to develop a couple of illustrations this weekend to help illustrate some of the exterior spatial qualities of the theater design. The number of pages for this project are really starting to add up and I don’t want to add...
by Alex Hogrefe | May 25, 2013 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 3 |
This past post received a lot of feedback from you asking for a more detailed breakdown of the illustrations. The interior illustration in particular got a lot of attention so I am going to start with that one. Since several different parts of the...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 14, 2013 | Break Down |
I’ve been wanting to do this illustration ever since I first built the Sketchup model a month ago. A couple of areas that I focused on was the semi-transparent glass in the tower and activating the streets down below. I set up the model last night and let it...
by Alex Hogrefe | Dec 19, 2012 | Break Down |
Those of you who have followed my site for a while may remember that I created a winter scene post last year right around this this time describing how to turn any rendering into a snow scene. It was one of the few snow scenes that I had ever created. Since...
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 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 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 | 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...
