Here, I'll post things that I think you'll enjoy. Most of my posts will be about architectural illustrations, 3D renderings, new software, and anything else cool.
It is reasonable to view your finished artwork with an overcritical eye. Only the most complacent craftsmen see no room for improvement.
Nevertheless, an architectural illustrator lives in a world of deadlines and realistic financial returns on his work. Unless he feels the delineation is completely unsatisfactory, he cannot take the time to render it again. Also, another observer is more likely to overlook insignificant flaws than the artist who produced them.
When you have a structure, that isn't characteristic, it's essential to add something that gives your rendering scale. People are one of the advisable things to bring to your composition. Not only do people add liveliness, they contribute scale. Be mindful! You can be slightly off with your scale, and you will through your viewer off.
A acceptable architectural figure is six feet tall, give or take a sensible variance for sex, age, or ethnic differences. The average body is proportioned to a height of eight head lengths. Legs are four head lengths, shoulder width is two lengths, and hip width one and half head lengths.
Children's heads are slightly larger in proportion to their bodies.
From proper proportions, the figure can be laid out as a series of simplified shapes. I apply my people in post-production so; I use boxes in my scene, to symbolize these proportions.
PsyBlog's new ebook, How to Be Creative, explains six key principles of the psychology of innovation to help you be more creative.
If we can all be creative, why is it so hard to come up with truly original ideas?
It's because creativity is mysterious. Just ask any scientist, artist, writer or other highly creative person to explain how they come up with brilliant ideas and, if they're honest, they don't really know.
But over the decades psychologists have given ordinary participants countless tests, forms and tasks and conducted hundreds of hours of interviews. From these emerge the psychological conditions of creativity.
Not what you should do, but how you should be.
In the scientific literature six principles of creativity recur again and again:
Each are explained with examples from the research and are directly applicable to everyday creativity.
Architectural Vignettes show only a detail or a portion of a structure rather than en entire subject. Unfinished edges and free forms of composition are distinctive features.
They are used widely in advertising to stress a particular selling point of a building, and editorial stories to emphasize important features of design function.
In architectural offices, vignettes illustrate key areas of a structure. During preliminary planning stages, they can indicate a direction of design without the necessity of delineating the entire subject.
Architectural Vignettes
There is no denying that our industry has changed. But, do you know what I don't miss? I don't miss the 11th hour phone call, from clients with that urgent project, that they needed tomorrow. The reason I don't have to deal with that is, most of them are no longer in business.
Presently, I have top shelf clients, who treasure quality workmanship. The quantity of work isn't there, but the high caliber projects are. The only way someone can think it takes hours to produce something stunning is, if they don't value what you do, anyway.
YOU CAN'T CUT CORNERS, specially with your visual deliveries. The best intent will be lost, if you don't have good graphical representation.
The testimonies I get, from returning clients, go like this:
Bobby, I got my last two clients partially because of the work you did for me on previous projects. But, both were upset because, when it came to their project, the quality just wasn't there.
So, the moral of this story is, only the good survive. The people who have dispensable income are the ones who value quality and craftsmen ship.
Animation has a long and interesting history. Since the advent of modern computer animation, even Walt Disney Studios, one of the stanchions of feature-length animation, has moved to animating solely with computers. Hand-drawn, stop-motion, go-motion, claymation and many other techniques have been used throughout human history. Even cave paintings were created with a sense of motion. This video is a brief, and incredibly thorough, telling of the art of animation.
Free Mobile Viewer App to Edit and Share Files
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