Landscape WIP

[fabmedia]

This is my first post on this site. I'm looking for some feedback on my work. I'm interested in illustrating for the architectural market. To give you a bit of background, I'm a graphic designer/illustrator and things are a little slow in the design department. So being self-employed I'm looking at trying to expand my horizons. I enjoy honesty so feel free to comment as necessary. I'm currently use Lightwave 7.5.

 

Landscape:

 

Cheers!

Arlen

[ingo]

Hi Arlen, nice you made it to the cgarchitect forum. How is your business going, do you had some success in archviz market ?

[fabmedia]

Well... business is VERY slow on the graphic design front. I think I shot myself if the foot by taking all the overflow from working with other design studios and when it slowed down, no work. So I'm out and about looking for work. I've done some stuff for a local lumber specialty company, and a couple of other businesses, so I figured that making a move into the somewhat busy architectural industry here in the Vancouver area would be a good start. I'm starting to notice though that most of the firms, large or small, either do it in-house or have someone that does the work for them. So I'm looking for freelance work if anybody is interested.

 

Which leads me into how can I break the barrier into getting work from these firms?

 

BTW... thanks for the compliment.

Arlen

[schmoron13]

welcome fabmedia

 

first off, the pic looks great. but since you want critiques:

 

The combination of photorealism and npr is a little disruptive. Everything looks great, but they don't necessarily mesh well. For example, you have the two super-photorealistic houses (love the wood texture-3d total?) but have plastic looking wood (tree, gazebo) and a fake backrdop that clashses. Either would work, but together...

 

ilkewise, the tree and sky in the background (far right) doesn't work (to me atleast) with the dark shadows on the patio.

 

for the trees, I believe adjusting the specular levels will help greatly.

 

All said, it's definitely a fantastic work...it captures the feeling great, though I have the same problem in my illustration: where's the focal point? for AEC, such a problem is of paramount importance.

 

GREAT JOB

[fabmedia]

Ah... yes the dreaded focal point. Isn't that the fun one. Well it was initially going to and was the arbour. It was closer to the camera but it just didn't work. So I've been sitting there looking at what I could put in the scene and I was thinking of an old table and chairs. But that's still up in the air. The trees and the background are an issue. I was thinking of blurring the background to bring the focus into the building more without drawing it away with a crisp background.

 

Arlen

[Buffalo Bills]

fabmedia,

 

Not bad for the first post. I like the feeling of it. Texturing and modeling is good especially the textures. I think adjusting the lighting, especially the background would help bring it to life more. The trees like someone else has said already could use some adjustment. I wouldn't know too much about that because all the trees I use in my images are 2D. I haven't played around with 3d trees yet. Keep up the good work and I hope you find work soon.

P.S. So how did you create your grass?

[fabmedia]

All the textures were hand painted with photoshop. The grass is a combination of a handpainted texture and Sasquatch which is a hair plug-in for Lightwave.

 

Thanks for the compliments.

 

Arlen