by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 5, 2021 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 5, Project 11 MIT Hub |
Sections are some of my favorite types of architecture illustrations to create because of how well they show the relationship of exterior to interior. Traditionally, section drawings are illustrated perpendicular to the cut with minimal perspective and presented in a...
by Alex Hogrefe | Apr 18, 2021 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 11 MIT Hub, Styles / Effects |
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,...
by Alex Hogrefe | Feb 27, 2021 | Break Down, Project 11 MIT Hub |
A long time ago, I put together a day to night illustration for my Philly Bridge project. Back then, I had a hard time deciding what kind of scene lighting to go with so I just did both and ended up creating a tutorial around how you could shift an image from daytime...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 23, 2021 | Break Down, Project 11 MIT Hub |
One of the first views of the MIT project that I wanted to explore was an approach shot down a new proposed pedestrian street. It is not necessarily the most compelling view of the new architecture, but I like that the view shows how the student hub volumes reinforce...
by Alex Hogrefe | Dec 23, 2020 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 11 MIT Hub |
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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Dec 6, 2020 | Break Down, Project 11 MIT Hub |
I have begun a new personal visualization project to start off the winter season and help me switch things up a bit. As much as I liked working on the Texas Prairie Office, the project and scope was huge which meant every image required lots of design and time to...