by Alex Hogrefe | Dec 18, 2011 | Styles / Effects |
I don’t know if I’m just in the holiday spirit, but I thought I would write a post about winterizing an illustration. In essence, this tutorial takes your typical daytime rendering and turns it into a snowy winter scene, which is easier than you...
by Alex Hogrefe | Dec 5, 2011 | Fundamentals |
Over the years, I have come across many ways to extract objects out of an image. I still use most of them mainly because each method responds to certain situations where other methods won’t work. There are 7 techniques that will be explained but I’m...
by Alex Hogrefe | Nov 29, 2011 | Final Moves |
I posted a landscape video tutorial a few weeks back, however the video did not cover some final post processing steps used for the final look. I received some comments asking for an explanation so I thought I would put something together quickly. The steps are...
by Alex Hogrefe | Nov 6, 2011 | Fundamentals |
This video builds off of the post from last week explaining the workflow I used to add landscaping elements via Photoshop. There was a lot of information to cover in a short amount of time, so the video slows down at important stages of the process and speeds...
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 30, 2011 | Break Down |
I put this illustration together this morning in hopes of showing how crucial landscaping is to an architectural illustration. This is something that always seems to be overlooked by a lot of students, and something I didn’t take seriously until grad...