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Wow, fooled again.
I haven’t ventured into computer software imagery just yet, but look forward to using it and creating my own graphics library, experimenting with different techniques, etc.  Still, my heart is with hand drawing and the immediacy of pencil or ink to paper and the look/feel of that process.  I’m guessing that one uses a di…[Read more]

none of it is 3d.  it is straight from autocad into photoshop and then rendered to give the appearance of depth.
i have a really nice palette of textures & patterns, which I would suggest you start to build if you want to render plans using photoshop.
the field with daisies is actually two textures blended together to give that effect using a…[Read more]

Nice model and birdseye view of a field of daisies.
Did you photoshop the field of daisies into a photo of the model or is that part 3D too?
Love models and wish it was practical to do them more often.  I prefer it even to virtually moving through
spaces on computer.

LOL!!!  
There ought to be awards on this forum for most unique and humorous replies.

like this?

You can almost measure the Fibinacchi Sequence in the some of those photos…Woahhh!!!
 

Make the grassy areas look like an array of cowlicks… using stippling…
 

The Pitchfork Festival in Chicago had a number of booths with silk-screen artists showing their posters (mostly concert/music). It occurred to me that this style could be applied to landscape architecture. It is clean, bold and expressive. Most posters only had 3-5 colors but they did a lot with those 3-5 colors.
http://www.thebungaloo.com/

Why worry about what other LAs do? If you think it will be a benefit, do it. Anytime that you see a “weakness” in the profession which you do not have it is an advantage to you.
 
I honestly am amazed by the many perceived obstacles to success people can find because someone else is not doing something that they can do. This is like a football pl…[Read more]

Wow, that’s an interesting solution.  Thanks so much for sharing this.  I’ll save it to my graphics library folder for future reference.  I was indeed looking for a purely hand graphics solution, but this is certainly an option to consider and I find the juxtaposition of slightly altered photo imagery with hand drawn an interesting look.  If I we…[Read more]

“… I do find it rather interesting that at a time when public spaces should be more plant rich (environment) they are becoming the opposite.”
 
This does not make sense to me. Who has determined that public spaces should be more plant rich? The thing that so many forget or refuse to acknowledge is that it is very seldom when a public space is t…[Read more]

I started a series of Photoshop tutorials a ways back, I didn’t get to prairie type areas, but the same techniques I used for turf-grass and dirt should work.
 
Turf: http://land8lounge.com/profiles/blogs/tuesday-tutorial-turf-and
Dirt: http://land8lounge.com/profiles/blogs/tuesday-tutorial-time-to-get
 
I did do a phase of this design with p…[Read more]

I don’t think so…if there is somebody who creates a really unique, functional, and pleasing style…it WILL be copied. Not so much with hand anymore, but look at how much of even the computer generated stuff all looks the same.

that brings up an interesting point. it may be true that LA’s in general are not the best artists (otherwise they would be artists)… but as a group do we suppress or malign those individuals that might do better in that arena, or suppress possible innovation?

I’ve had nothing but bad luck with Corel. It is way to clunky and tempermental. I worled in a firm that used to render, and it took forever and we constantly were losing things off of it. It is horrible for creating presentations as well. I did used to use it in the sign making industry, which prefers it because it is inexpensive and works well…[Read more]

It is just like any form of art, styles come and go. What is popular now is because of what is taught to be popular, or what is stylistically pleasing at the moment. “Here, buy this book and use it to guide your drawing” says the professor. All of the great artists had ‘clones’ who either apprenticed with their style or copied it to make money.…[Read more]

go boilers.
 
that is an excellent question, and i’m afraid my response may be a bit chicken-or-egg-ish. when i received my bachelor’s degree, i felt (correctly or incorrectly) that i was always being steered away from incorporating more science-based and analytical elements into my work. it may have been that the faculty just wasn’t familiar…[Read more]

yes. 
 
i’m suggesting that for some tasks it might save time to just generate the drawing in DRAW, since it has the capability for scaled drawing.

My research line here at Purdue will be of interest to you then. I hope my work will be of direct help to design firms since I include cost/benefit analysis of each project in my write-ups.
 
My masters thesis looked at levels of detail in still images generated from a 3D model – and the time (and cost) it took to create them. I’ll be looking…[Read more]

I’d also like to add that the perceived stigma of “computer generated images are hiding something” or “clients believe hand renderings are easier to make changes” are fast disappearing. Most developers and firm higher-ups did not grow up with computers or have chosen to avoid immersion into the digital world. And the whole “it’s easier to hide…[Read more]