First true hybrid in many years

[Ernest Burden III]

While I used to work by combining digital and hand-painted elements, my work has been 100% digital for at least a decade. Except, recently I felt like working the old way. I'm posting this to remind everyone to keep in mind the possibility of alternative ways to get jobs done.

 

Usually, I used to do a partial digital rendering, print it and paint over it. This project is the opposite--paint landscape elements to drop over a digital base in Photoshop.

 

The project is a house proposed for re-zoning a site from 'agricultural reserve' to allow a house. So currently it's just a field. This house would likely never be built, it's just to show a plausible re-use of the land. So I thought doing loose, inviting landscaping would help the client get their approval. The most fun was drawing the landscaping. I wish I could have just handed that in.

 

[Francisco Penaloza]

That's pretty cool Ernest,

You did a good job matching the building tones with the landscaping.

I remember doing some mix styles too back in the day. around 2000's it used to be faster than doing more in 3D.

so how big did you printed those to work on them??

My ex-mentor like it nothing less than 24" Hour old plotter used to sweat bullets trying to print that size back then

[Justin Hunt]

love the loose sketches the most

[Ernest Burden III]

love the loose sketches the most

 

Me, too.

 

so how big did you printed those to work on them??...

 

I printed a wireframe of each view onto 11x17 paper, traced the few needed lines onto watercolor paper and painted that. I could have gotten more detail into the painted parts by doing them 24" wide or bigger, but 17 was good enough for the looseness I was hoping for. And you do not need to be perfect with the painted parts because you will be bringing them into Photoshop where you can clean up edges, clone out mistakes etc.

[James Vella]

looks great! now can we change the brick to render, rotate the camera to the left 15 degrees and zoom in 3 meters? :D

Edited September 29, 2017 by redvella

[bertabob]

Hi Ernest!

I really like the mood of the first two images! I'm currently still experimenting with this technic. I clearly don't match the additional hand-drawn part with the rendered image, so these are in contrast to strengthen each other. I like to draw the people or vegetation, those are hard to insert correctly in 3D anyway.

 

 

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