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Garden Room Common Area Rendering

Often, I get interior designers who need to convey their design ideas to their clients. The Garden Room Common Area Rendering is one of these cases. All the pieces you see were modeled and colored according to the interior designer's specifications. These are some of the more time-consuming projects since I am matching real-world elements. I get photos, and I model the pieces to work in my 3D environment.

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Bowling Alley Rendering

I love creating something from nothing. I mean, except for someone's concept. I start with a blank screen, and I virtually build the environment. In this case, I received sketches and inspirational photos to create these bowling alley renderings.

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Up North Rendering

Summer is coming to an end, which means families are flooding in to get those last weekends at the resorts. I do work for people worldwide, but I don’t often do work for the locals. This is a local resort looking to attract some of those families to a proposed new cabin.

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Wimbledon Corner

Again, I love brick! Improve the design, which is a benefit added. Often, when looking at the rendering, the design is redefined and dialed into. Like I always say, it is cheaper to move something on the computer than in the field.

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Brick Architectural Renderings

I love brick. I am not sure if it is because I am from Chicago, and in Chicago, everything is brick (O'Leary), or what? Brick construction is fantastic and gives me a good feeling—brick construction; made to withstand, even a stubborn cow.

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You should get paid in full when you deliver your work!

Some good advice on getting paid before you deliver your final deliverables. Thank you, Fabio, for sharing your thoughts.

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Shawn Fisher Design House Rendering

I have all kinds of clients. Some dictate every move I make, calling all the shots and others, like Shawn Fisher, tells me to do my magic. Guess which projects usually turn out best? Okay, there is another type that I work in collaboration with, which also turns out pretty good, too.

This is a beautiful house and it was a joy to illustrate. Shawn was an awesome client and I hope we work together again, soon.

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Manchester Modern Farmhouse Rendering

It was the Summer of 1980, and my parents commissioned an architect to design them their house. After going through the process and falling in love with the 2D plans, my father started construction. I remember my father took a few months off of work, and I helped after school and weekends. Some of the design elements, after actually building them were, not so good. I mean in 2D they looked good, but after actually seeing them in reality, not so much.

My favorite past time growing up was drawing. I always drew; you could always find me with some kind of drawing utensil in my hand. Like many, if not most, my drawing stopped once I got a little older. Even when I was in college for design and architecture, I didn't draw, we had computer-aided design (CAD). After college, I went to work in construction, and I saw homeowners struggle to understand the 2D drawings that they were given, and it sparked something in me. I remembered back to when my parent was reviewing their 2D plans.

In the early 90's I took up drawing again, and this time it was architecture. I started taking the architect's 2D drawings and transferring them into 3D architectural sketches, or I guess you could call them renderings. However, at this early stage, they were just pencil drawings. I remember the architects didn't like it because it usually caused the homeowners to make late design changes, and it held things up on the construction site. My premise was, and still is, it is cheaper to change something on paper than the construction site.

After a few years, my construction site pencil sketches turned into art. I started playing with different media, added color, and I took a lot of liberties. Light and shadow took precedence over actual site conditions and real-world locations. Okay, why my life story? When I received the Manchester Modern Farmhouse 2D drawings, I didn't see a whole lot. It looked like a small house, and I wasn't' seeing farmhouse. Not until I built the 3D model and added textures and materials did I start to appreciate the house. My mind flashed back to the early days of why I actually started drawing architecture. Had these 2D drawings been viewed by someone, I couldn't imagine much emotion would be evoked. However, ad perspective, light, and shadow, and it become something else, something someone could fall in love with.

25+ years later, I am still drawing and making a living doing so. I rarely pick up a pencil or paper anymore, and now I use a monitor and mouse. To tell you the truth, it takes more than a monitor and mouse, it takes a lot of high-end hardware to compute the information I give it. Not only does it take high-end software-hardware, but it also takes a couple decades of knowledge and wisdom using art theory. Face it, one thing software, hardware can't do is be creative, which has become my niche!

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Lagoon A Beach Rendering

About 20 years ago, I met my wife online. I don’t think I was looking for someone, definitely not on the internet, and it was way before meeting people online was cool. Anyway, I met my wife online, sight unseen, but we hit it off. I lived in Chicago, and she lived in upper Minnesota. I had no experience with people from Minnesota, but my mind had conjured up some strange caveman/cavewomen stuff. We talked on the phone for a while, usually, while she was at work, and she would open/close a door that sounded like it was a screen door from the 1900s. My future wife started asking me to come to visit her, but I had no interest in traveling across the country (okay, two states over) to see cavewomen. After all, I like my women with teeth, which was literally my thought at the time. I dodged the ‘come visit’ bullet as long as I could, she emailed me her photo, and I was on the next train to the north woods.

What does my story have to do with the Lagoon A Beach Rendering, you ask? Well, I drove up to upper Minnesota, expecting to see log cabins everywhere, lots of old pickups, and gruff people. What I have come to learn is, every place pretty much looks the same. No log cabins, people seemed friendly and were well groomed (for the most part), and if I hadn’t know where I was, I would have to guess the suburbs of Chicago. I was kind of disappointed to tell you the truth. I wanted meat over a fire, and I got Dairy Queen! One thing I did see once in a while was old white houses with green trim. These houses look like old cabins on the lakes. There isn’t a lot left, but they are around, and I always liked them. They were more prevalent 20 years ago, so the Lagoon A Beach Rendering brought me back to when I first started courting my wife.

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Product Furniture Rendering

I try to stay pretty laser-focused on my architectural renderings, however, sometimes I get product renderings. I have done light fixtures, computer desks, couches, kids playsets, and these patio furniture. This client had a new line coming out, but due to the weather, they didn’t want to wait until Spring to get these photographed. Well, you don’t have to wait when you can virtually create your environment and place your virtual product in the scene.

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