by Alex Hogrefe | Apr 29, 2012 | Break Down |
I woke up this morning with an idea for a rendering using the villa I designed back in undergrad (same one used in the sketches post). I also wanted to use this time to experiment with some different lighting conditions. Primarily, how to get the back lit...
by Alex Hogrefe | Feb 12, 2012 | Break Down |
There is something really nice about the simplicity and clarity of an architectural line drawing. A friend of mine was showing me some old school drawings by guys like Bernard Tschum and Lebbeus Woods. It’s amazing how fast drawings like these are being...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 17, 2012 | Break Down |
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 30, 2011 | Break Down |
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 12, 2011 | Break Down |
I’ve been putting together some program diagrams for work, and it reminded me of one that I created a year and a half ago in grad school. Experimenting with different arrangements and adjacencies of programmatic needs in Sketchup proved to be an effective...
by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 21, 2011 | Break Down |
I realized that I never posted these images that I created a while back when I posted the Honduras Church illustrations. In this case, the design is relatively simple composed of 5 elements added to the untouched shell of a house in Honduras. The space is...
by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 14, 2011 | Break Down, Over Time |
As the title implies, this architecture illustration tutorial doesn’t use a rendering engine. I have done a few other tutorials in the past that don’t involve a rendering program, however this tutorial does things a little differently, and in less...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 13, 2011 | Break Down |
I’ve been designing my wedding invitations this weekend and figured I could kill two birds with one stone and try to get a post out of it as well. After all, I have been attacking these things like an architectural design project so it seemed to make...
by Alex Hogrefe | Apr 22, 2011 | Break Down |
I have just finished a few architectural renderings this past week for a really exciting villa design located in China. I started out the illustration as a daytime scene, but decided to take advantage of all the glass and go with a dusk scene. I put a ton of...
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 25, 2010 | Break Down |
A little off the subject of rendering, but this past weekend, I explored HDR (high dynamic range) photography. While I’m not a professional by any means, a problem I’ve always had with photography was my inability to reproduce through the camera,...
