by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 29, 2021 | Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 12 Summerfest |
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....
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 | Sep 27, 2020 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 6, Project 10 Prairie Office |
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...
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...
