by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 9, 2012 | Styles / Effects |
I wanted to go into more depth about how I created the sketch look. Images like these depend almost entirely on the textures you use. I spend a lot of my time scavenging images online as well as creating my own to get the exact style that I am looking for....
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 2, 2012 | Break Down, Styles / Effects |
I spent the weekend modeling up an old studio project that I designed my sophmore year in undergrad. It’s something I have been wanting to do for a while since the original project was done by hand i.e. no computer. I was able to scan and scale my old hand drawn...
by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 8, 2012 | Break Down |
Last week I described the work flow of generating a plan oblique illustration from a Sketchup model. This week, I wanted to follow that up with how I added color and texture to the SU exports to achieve the image above. The steps to create the above...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 11, 2012 | Styles / Effects |
Every so often, there comes a time when I need to illustrate a brushed stainless steel finish like the column in the above image. In my experience, adjusting the “shininess” settings in any rendering program to get that brushed look dramatically...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 23, 2012 | Break Down |
I’m getting ready to head to Savannah, GA (flying out tonight actually) for a week, which doesn’t leave much time for this latest post. I spent this afternoon creating a night scene illustration using a really simple Kerkythea base image. At first,...
