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Are you involved in your local USGBC chapter?  How has it benefited your career, if at all?

thanx mike, i will try this and tell u

In setting up perspective in mounds or terrains, you must assume they are in a square box, locate their base points on perspective and find their height, then do connect from each base point to the top.  Hope this help.

i have doubt in perpesctives & sketching for mounds, terrains, iam not getting proper shape or profile of the mound in 3d 

A beautiful landscape plan nicely rendered by our member Romella Edgmon who took our workshop in July 2007. She contributes the entire rendering process below to share with our members.  Thanks to Romella.
It was a pleasure coming up with a conceptual design for a water feature in honor of philanthropist Walter Annenberg. A water…[Read more]

Is currently recruiting for Landscape architects with maximum 8 years experience for an international consultancy in Qatar. Must be western educated and ideally have previous experience in MENA region. Please send CV and portfolio to tlee@bwpltd.com – IMMEDIATE ROLES

                               
Drawing with a Good Attitude                    
 
 
Many people feel they are unable to draw or sketch well either due to the lack of talented background or missing proper guided graphic skill. I have spent over 35 years of my life teaching people how to draw well with confidence, often I have seen people walke…[Read more]

Improvement of B/A drawings in just 7 days?

Before: Bad perspective, no gradual value change and lack of details on walls, ceiling and floor.  Requires nicer design with more furniture, bad person that was scaled too short, need more colors like blue, purple, and orange.
After: Good perspective, good details on walls with nice gradual value…[Read more]

Decommissioned military sites competition 

Does anyone know where I can find HQ real world plant images that include vegetables?  Anyone know a free site for downloading plant images without the background?

LEED GA – is it worth it?

The Louisiana Chapter ASLA is hosting review sessions for LARE exam sections C & E on Saturday, November 5, 2011 from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm in Baton Rouge.  Each session is offered at $160 for Section C, and $60 for Section E for ASLA members, or $200 (C) or $100 (E) for non-members. The session cost includes review workbooks for each section…[Read more]

How to render a sofa with markers

Left Sofa: (Rendered as Designer’s sofa): Outlined sofa lightly with a red or #B pencil, then render each surface of cushions by applying Chartpak Colorless Blender first and use the value sequence of Sunset Pink, Salmon, Deep Salmon, Scarlet and Maroon to achieve a nice Graduate Value Change to White Space. …[Read more]

I have been using more Baccharis pilularis ‘Pigeon Point’ up here in the East Bay of S.F. It seems to be an easy evergreen plant. So far, so good.

Has anyone had any problems with it after it has established?

Also what is your favorite Ceanothus and why?

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How to draw Bubble Diagram and Marker Lettering: 
1. Use circle template, apply one circle with Sharpie and another one with Thin     Pen (don’t forget Professional Gap within circle), two circles offset to each     other with small gap in between. 2. Use different shades of green and blue markers and apply stripes with Over     The Edge just a b…[Read more]

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