Melike ERSOY

Hi,
Yesterday my boyfriend and I have arrived in Kuala Lumpur. We are planning to travel for a few months around South East Asia. I would like to write a series of articles about landscape architecture in Asian countries and therefore I need to collect some information.
Could you please give me some tips what is worth seeing in Kuala Lumpur and…[Read more]

Hi I am Anjali from India……..I am keen to share work and views about urban/civic landscapes.

in vertical landscape generally we can choose small plants which are climber and creeper supporting with net making with bamboo or wooden frame . watering is critcial part here.

hai..wemby speaking here,,im interested too for exploration of the development landscape architecture by design and good planning

especially in my country INDONESIA

Anyway we can get some quick sketch technique (marker, colored pencil, pastel etc) and rendering tutorials on here ?

tim-

you bring up a good point..atmosphere is difficult to convey in hand drawn work. all I can think of at the moment is airbrush..

anyone know the best way to convey “god rays” in drawn perspectives? thanks

Hi James,
Actually, my professor introduced me to your work this past summer, my first semester in LA, and it was he who let me know about your rendering techniques and color usage. In fact, our first shot at perspectives involved 20 minute perspective-making sessions that aimed to emulate your graphics.
I could only hope that if he hadn’t told…[Read more]

Hi Vanessa; glad you’re having success with the colored pencil techniques. You have a good eye! I do use a cream pencil combined with peach on almost all buildings and hardscape at the very beginning of coloring a drawing, then wash over them with whatever color will best depict the material I’m envisioning…terra cotta, slate blue. etc. The…[Read more]

Nick,
Thanks! I’ll probably be doing more of these in the future and I would like to seed them be as representative of the true design as possible.

Thanks!

Eric-

I got your message. I need to make some evergreens for a plan tomorrow as fate would have it. I’ll post my steps here or shoot you a message.

-Nick

Eric,

I couldn’t tell you how to do it using drop shadows, but I could offer some good advice on doing it manually in photoshop without creating numerous layer copies and keeping the file size down.

send me a message if you still need help with this and I’ll explain some simple tricks.

Does anyone have good method for doing evergreen shadows in photoshop with the drop shadow?

James Richards is great. I love his simple color palette. He blends darker colors in his lighter colors to make things look cohesive. For instance, he used carmine red and true blue (i think it was true blue) prismacolor color pencils over cream to create this really nice effect. So, the cream hardscape and buildings really popped after i tried to…[Read more]

most interested in Vertical Landscapes similar to those by Patrick Blanc…

hi all, i am a practicing landscape architect here in Malaysia…would be open to discussion on any landscape design topics…

i am here too

Hi all I’ve just uploaded some of my latest university drawings please send any positive criticism. Thanks.

Hello……SaWad Dee Krab…I’m Wee(Chiang Mai Farm Boy) ..I am interesting in Landscape Design even since…

So much to learn from you lot, hopefully contribute some stuff that may be of interest. All abstract and still learning the basics of Vector/sketch up etc. Being a Mac user can you survive with out AutoCad? ( can’t do the Windows Geekdom thing)