by Alex Hogrefe | May 15, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center |
As I rework some of the spreads for my upcoming Portfolio Volume 4, I find myself needing to develop several new illustrations to fill in some missing information or to help better tell the story. However, due to time limitations and the amount of images I need to...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 4, 2015 | Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center, Uncategorized |
It has now been several months of working on this latest project from which lots of imagery has been created. I’m ready to start compiling all of this information into portfolio spreads similar to what I did for the wharf project. Anyone that reads this...
by ahogrefe | Dec 14, 2014 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center, Uncategorized |
For this winter special #4, it was all about the lighting and atmosphere. Going into this, I knew the illustration was going to be heavily post processed so I spent little time preparing the 3d model and just kicked out a quick V-ray base rendering...
by Alex Hogrefe | Nov 26, 2014 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center, Styles / Effects |
A thought that is often running through my head when working on architectural illustrations is how can I bring more of a human touch to the image. The answer is almost always through texturing in Photoshop. I have spent the last week illustrating an aerial perspective...
by Alex Hogrefe | Nov 9, 2014 | Break Down, Fundamentals, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center |
One of the very first tutorials I created for this site described a workflow that generated a night scene only using Photoshop. That tutorial used a very simple base image exported right out of Sketchup. The workflow is easy to implement and is especially...
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 26, 2014 | Fundamentals, Project 02 Cultural Center |
Architecture visualization is notorious for producing complex and messy PSD files. Sometimes, it’s the little things that can make a big difference and in my opinion, layer management is one of those little things that many people don’t put enough...
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 12, 2014 | Over Time, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center, Uncategorized |
As the 3d model progresses, I find myself spending a lot of time defining and organizing the way different elements are grouped in the model. I posted a video a while back showing a time lapse of the construction of one of my models. I rarely use layers but instead...
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 30, 2014 | Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center, Uncategorized |
These past two weeks have been crazy and if any of you follow my Facebook page, you know what I am talking about. However, with all of the change, I figured it would also be a good time to start a new project as well. The wharf design was a fun project to...
