Groups – Activity – Thomas W. Schaller

Tim Zhang posted an update in the group Graphics 14 years, 9 months ago

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

Jay Everett posted an update in the group Planning Profession and Landscape Architecture 14 years, 9 months ago

Nashville adopts form-based code for downtown

Glenn Kranich posted an update in the group California Native Plants 14 years, 10 months ago

Ashley- In urban settings, supplemental irrigation is advantageous for the summer-dry months. Specifically, I’ve used inline subsurface drip. Quality growing medium like compost is important too, along with mycorrhizal fungi applications to help plants thrive through root establishment. Some native plant material I have used are: Juncus…[Read more]

ashley cruz posted an update in the group California Native Plants 14 years, 10 months ago

does anyone know how rain gardens thrive in the Bay Area? I am wondering because right now, its the rainy season, so everything is getting a lot of water – but when it is summer and dry, how do the plants in the rain garden get their water? What plants do you suggest putting in the rain garden?

Geoffrey Katz posted an update in the group California Native Plants 14 years, 10 months ago

Hello all
For those of you in the San Fran Bay Area registration for the tour of East Bay native plant gardens just opened. Went last year, will go again this year. http://www.BringingBacktheNatives.net

Peter Jensen posted an update in the group California Native Plants 14 years, 10 months ago

Semiarundaria fastuosum is a good screen variety. Dense and upright.

Vanessa Ruiz posted an update in the group Graphics 14 years, 11 months ago

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]

James Richards posted an update in the group Graphics 14 years, 11 months ago

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]

Eric Shepley posted an update in the group Graphics 14 years, 11 months ago

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!

nca posted an update in the group Graphics 14 years, 11 months ago

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

nca posted an update in the group Graphics 14 years, 11 months ago

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.

Eric Shepley posted an update in the group Graphics 14 years, 12 months ago

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

Jason Bennink posted an update in the group Xerophytic Landscapes 15 years ago

Just a thought from Soil Science perspective on reducing the water requirements for any plant. Use lots of organic material and or peat moss around the plant,(not too much) and surround other areas with sand. Make sure the drip is going on the water holding material. Sand has the lowest affinity for water while clay has the highest and organic…[Read more]

Vanessa Ruiz posted an update in the group Graphics 15 years ago

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]

MJ Martin posted an update in the group California Native Plants 15 years ago

Two years after clearing the invasives in my part of the creekbed in my backyard – you know, plants like Arundo and Tamarisk (how did that get there?) and Washingtonia palms (we all know how that got there) – the birds were kind enough to plant 3 Quercus agrifolia and a Toyon that is now about 12′ high. None of these are requiring additional water…[Read more]

David Moorman posted an update in the group California Native Plants 15 years ago

Christmas berry!? They can make a landscape designer a hero!

umit harite posted an update in the group Xerophytic Landscapes 15 years, 1 month ago

Hello, Hope to exchange knowledge and experience. Regards to All. ümit harite from turkey

Winston White posted an update in the group Graphics 15 years, 1 month ago

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

Grant Beerling posted an update in the group Graphics 15 years, 2 months ago

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)