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Summerfest Pavilion Color Studies

Summerfest Pavilion Color Studies

by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 25, 2022 | Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 12 Summerfest, Uncategorized | 5 comments

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...
Summerfest Pavilion Context Illustrations

Summerfest Pavilion Context Illustrations

by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 29, 2021 | Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 12 Summerfest | 8 comments

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....
MIT Site Plans and Diagrams

MIT Site Plans and Diagrams

by Alex Hogrefe | Apr 18, 2021 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 11 MIT Hub, Styles / Effects | 4 comments

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,...
Winter Special #9: MIT Courtyard

Winter Special #9: MIT Courtyard

by Alex Hogrefe | Dec 23, 2020 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 11 MIT Hub | 5 comments

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...
Texas Prairie: Aerial Grass

Texas Prairie: Aerial Grass

by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 27, 2020 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 10 Prairie Office | 8 comments

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...
Texas Prairie: Glass

Texas Prairie: Glass

by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 6, 2020 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 10 Prairie Office | 5 comments

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...
Texas Prairie: Abstractions

Texas Prairie: Abstractions

by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 18, 2020 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 10 Prairie Office | 1 comment

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....
Texas Prairie: Detail Elevation

Texas Prairie: Detail Elevation

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...
Porter Sq. Interior

Porter Sq. Interior

by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 23, 2020 | Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 09 Porter Square, Uncategorized | 3 comments

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...
Texas Prairie: Color Grading

Texas Prairie: Color Grading

by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 10, 2020 | Break Down, Final Moves, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 10 Prairie Office, Uncategorized | 5 comments

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...
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