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 | 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...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 23, 2013 | Over Time, Portfolio Vol. 3 |
I received a lot of comments asking for an explanation of how I made the model and more specifically the curved geometry. Sketchup by itself is not well suited for “organic” modeling. You need the right plugins to get the “rhino-esk” functionality....
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 2, 2013 | Over Time |
I thought it would be interesting to put together a timelapse video showing the basics on how I built the urban tower seen in the past few posts. A couple of things to note about this video is that I didn’t spend a lot of the time with the finer details...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 29, 2012 | Portfolio Vol. 3, Styles / Effects |
I have been experimenting with some old-school plan oblique illustrations. This was one of the first 3-dimensional views I learned to draft by hand in school. What is great about these types of illustrations is that they can be used as scaled measured drawings...