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.
Here is a preset that I would like to share. This preset is the settings I use for my interior renderings. They are quite high settings, but it is fail-safe, and I use it all the time. These are the exact settings that I used on my Luxury Kitchen rendering.
Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, then why not:
Leave Comment | Subscribe To This Blog | Email Me
Gravity is universal, and we spend our daily lives resisting its influence. While walking, standing on one leg, or tipping back in a chair, we experience its effect and intuitively seek a state of balance.. When we are off balance, we have a strong fear that gravity will pull us over and we will fall down. Those expectations are so strongly ingrained in our subconscious that they also have an effect on the art we experience and produce. Most artwork is viewed in an upright orientation - in terms of top, sides, and bottom. as a result, gravity effects the visual composition.
Do you know why we frame our art? Artists often mat their work to gain an "aesthetic distance" or separation from the every day world. The hope is that we will see the work in a new context. But, even here, psychological factors can affect the visual weight and balance. In the case of a mat with two inch top, sides,and bottom, the bottom may have the illusion of being pinched or smaller than the other sides. This is an optical illusion that would make the artwork appear to be unstable, even rising on the wall. To compensate, the bottom measurement is generally made wider that that of the top and sides so that the whole rendering seems stabilized or balanced.
Balance
Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, then why not:
Leave Comment | Subscribe To This Blog | Email Me
““Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” - ”
Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, then why not:
Leave Comment | Subscribe To This Blog | Email Me
Because we do not have the eyes of eagles and because we perceive things through the earth's atmosphere, we are not able to see near and distant planes with equal clarity at the same time. A glance out the window confirms that close objects appear sharp, and in detail, whereas those far away look blurred and lack clarity. In your rendering, either using environmental effects in your rendering engine, or in post software like Photoshop, you can slightly blur the background, make it less saturated, and even add a slight blue tint to it.
Distant Fog
Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, then why not:
Leave Comment | Subscribe To This Blog | Email Me
In this course, author Lorrie Thomas Ross teaches you how to use Google+ to effectively promote a business. Discover how to set up an account for a business or client, and add company information, post photos and video, create compelling copy to market products or services, and improve your reach with contacts. Find smart ways to leverage the power of Google+ circles, blogging, and video sharing to make a real and lasting connection with an audience. This course also shows you ways to improve market visibility and open an online dialogue about your business.
Topics include:
Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, then why not:
Leave Comment | Subscribe To This Blog | Email Me
The most experiential and dynamic perspective is a ground level view. It offers the most telling opportunity to explain height and scale to our human dimensions, and through close proximity better explains choice of materials and perceived patterns/textures through color. The downside is that the further the point of interest is away the flatter and the less interesting the project. Plan element beyond 100' are harder to perceive by our standing 5'6" average eye height and must rely on more vertical element (people, vegetation and built forms) to perceive the use of that location.
To further the dynamic perspective, it is important to have a foreground,middle and background elements. This furthers the illusion of depth and can literally walk one into the rendering. What happens in the first 60 feet is the most dynamic area in the horizontal plane. If the horizontal plane is underdeveloped or unimportant, a worms eye view can increase the dynamic perspective and removes this area from the viewers perception.
In choosing a perspective, I create several perspective viewpoint based on requirements to best access the strength and weakness of each view and find that which I want to emphasis.
Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, then why not:
Leave Comment | Subscribe To This Blog | Email Me
In this course, Deke McClelland offers a sneak peak at the new features in Photoshop CS6. He reveals the secrets behind the new dark interface, searchable layers, the powerful Blur Gallery, Camera Raw 7, video editing, and the Adaptive Wide Angle filter, which removes distortion from extreme wide-angle photographs and panoramas. Deke also covers the new nondestructive Crop tool, dashed strokes, paragraph and character styles, editable 3D type, and the exciting Content-Aware Move tool, which moves selections and automatically heals the backgrounds.
Topics include:
Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, then why not:
Leave Comment | Subscribe To This Blog | Email Me
Unfortunately, many beginning artist let their fear of making errors prevent them from creating anything at all. Don't stop before you start. Get your work out there so people can look at it, give you some advice, and you can get some critiques.
How does one begin a critique? Unfortunately, there are no formulas. You may want to identify the three components of the work (subject, form, and content), evaluate them separately, and then examine how they work together as a whole. Analysis may seem awkward in the beginning, but asking some of the following questions may help.
Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, then why not:
Leave Comment | Subscribe To This Blog | Email Me
Join John Derry, a pioneer in the field of digital painting, as he shows how to master the natural-media painting features introduced in Photoshop CS5 in
Photoshop CS5: Painting with the Mixer Brush. This course shows how to use the Mixer Brush, the Bristle Tips feature, and a new mechanism for blending colors in Photoshop to add beautiful, painterly effects to photographs, enhance artwork with paint-like strokes and illustrations, and paint entirely new art from scratch. This course also covers customizing brush characteristics and surface textures, applying keyboard shortcuts to paint smoothly and efficiently, and using a Wacom tablet to get the most out of Photoshop CS5’s painting features. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, then why not:
Leave Comment | Subscribe To This Blog | Email Me
Learn to think like a painter and render images from photographs that look like they were created with oils or acrylics, using the latest digital artist's tools. Author and artist John Derry introduces the process of interpreting a photograph into a painted work of art. He begins by explaining his system of visual vocabularies, which describe how to replace the elements of an image with expressive painterly qualities, and also shares the custom brush sets and actions he uses to achieve these results in Photoshop. The course also covers working with filters, layers, effects, and more to add further detail and texture.
Topics include:
certificates of completion
Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, then why not:
Leave Comment | Subscribe To This Blog | Email Me
