by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 27, 2019 | Break Down, Fundamentals, Portfolio Vol. 5, Project 05 Research Lab, Uncategorized |
One of the new images I generated for my upcoming Portfolio Volume 05 was an aerial view of the Research Lab Project. Because I have many new images to generate in a short amount of time for the portfolio, I have been trying to minimize time spent on each image. In...
by Alex Hogrefe | Mar 4, 2018 | Fundamentals, Portfolio Vol. 5, Project 07 Desert Villa |
I have had a ton of people asking me to create a more thorough breakdown of one of my images and it seems the desert house dusk shot would be a good candidate. I like this image because not a ton of Photoshop is needed for the illustration, but the little Photoshop...
by Alex Hogrefe | Dec 3, 2017 | Fundamentals, Portfolio Vol. 5, Project 07 Desert Villa, Uncategorized |
I have been testing out a ton of different ideas for how to articulate the glass facade for the Desert Trench House project. From those studies, I developed a spread that shows some of the iterations that were generated. As I was putting this illustration together, I...
by Alex Hogrefe | Apr 17, 2017 | Fundamentals, Uncategorized |
Whether it is because time is limited or cutout libraries are too small, it often seems like adding entourage into an illustration is treated as an afterthought at the end of most workflows. When it is finally time to insert people, a large portion of time goes to...
by Alex Hogrefe | Feb 5, 2017 | Fundamentals, Portfolio Vol. 5, Project 05 Research Lab |
Continuing work on my research lab design, I wanted to generate floor plans that were a little more informational than the standard line drawings. Therefore, I turned the floor plans into oblique projection drawings using my Sketchup model and a technique described...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 8, 2017 | Fundamentals |
It has been a while since I have created a good ole tutorial. This is a really important one if you don’t already know or use Smart Objects in Photoshop. Smart Objects bring a whole new level of ability to edit in Photoshop. At Design Distill, we use them in...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 16, 2016 | Fundamentals |
One of the questions I get asked most is how do I compose perspective shots. I have touched on this subject in past posts but have not organized these concepts into one place. The tips discussed below are by no means the law. There are often circumstances that limit...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 3, 2016 | Break Down, Fundamentals, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
In part one, I discussed some quick study vignettes of the cliff retreat design. For part two, I want to go into more depth about how I used a Material ID render channel to speed up my material selections and generate these illustrations in a relatively short...
by Alex Hogrefe | Nov 1, 2015 | Fundamentals, Uncategorized |
I have a lot of content on this site and when I redesigned it in 2014, I made an attempt to organize the info so that everything was easy to find. However, I understand that people just starting out may still find this site difficult to navigate and not know where to...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 19, 2015 | Fundamentals, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
This week, I have begun piecing together the floor plans of the Train Pavilion Project. When it comes to visualizing floor plans, I have always leaned towards a simple representation. Maybe it is because I have spent so many years working in offices where the...
