This series of illustrations were initially meant to be a quick study of the contextual environment. However, I ended up really pouring a lot of time into them, constantly reworking the images, changing views, changing lighting, reworking the images again, etc. Additionally, I continued to develop the design and to be honest, I still don’t think it is there yet. Part of the reason for the constant changes to the illustrations was that I had some ideas in my head of the sort of environment that I wanted to portray. After visiting Ohio and spending some time driving through the backroads and see ..read more

I recently took a long road trip back to Ohio to see family that I haven’t seen in over a year and a half. It is such a contrast leaving the density of an urban environment like Boston and traveling to the rural areas that I grew up in. The contrast is refreshing and always helps me to reset. Much of my family are farmers and I have many memories of running around in cornfields and riding in farm equipment. For my next visualization project, I wanted to position the project directly into this farming environment surrounded by farmland. The design will follow a similar aesthetic and material pa ..read more

Sections are some of my favorite types of architecture illustrations to create. The way I have approached them for the last few projects that I created on this site was by treated them like a standard perspective illustration showing lots of textures and shading. Traditionally, section drawings are illustrated perpendicular to the cut with minimal perspective and presented in a much more diagrammatic way. Much of the earlier sections that I illustrated on this site maintained this diagrammatic look. However, I find sections that are rotated showing more perspective and shading to be much more ..read more

The 47th Krob Competition has put out a call for entries. Categories include Digital/Hybrid Media, Hand Delineation, Physical Delineation, Travel Sketch, and Animation. The 47th Ken Roberts Memorial Competition (KRob) is the longest-running architectural drawing competition in the world. Students and professionals may submit entries in a number of categories including Digital/Hybrid Media, Physical Delineation, Hand Delineation, Travel Sketch, and Animation category. All entries must be received by Friday, July 9th, 2021 by 11:59 pm CDT Visit www.KROBARCH.com for more information. Below ar ..read more

The past several weeks have been sort of a right-brain focus on image making. I wanted to play around with colors and textures and iterate on style a bit and not get lost in the technical and detailed side of things. However, before I started with the graphic studies, I first needed a good base. I originally was thinking I could accomplish most of what I wanted in Photoshop however I changed my mind and ended up modeling just about everything including the the ground plane textures and paving as well as trees and buildings. While this required more time up front, it meant I could move much qui ..read more

A long time ago, I put together a day to night illustration for my Philly Bridge project. Back then, I had a hard time deciding what kind of scene lighting to go with so I just did both and ended up creating a tutorial around how you could shift an image from daytime to night all in Photoshop. For the MIT project, I again was struggling to decide what time of day to go with so I decided to go with a “Day versus Night” series of images again. There were elements in the view such as the green courtyard that would have a better narrative with daytime light, but then elements such as the brass por ..read more

One of the first views of the new MIT project that I wanted to explore was an approach shot down a new proposed pedestrian street. Its not necessarily the most compelling view of the new architecture, but I like that the view shows how the student hub volumes reinforce the edge of the new pedestrian street. The existing conditions of the site consist of aging narrow streets, overgrown vegetation, and lots of on-street parking. Yet it runs parallel to some of the most beautiful views of Boston’s Charles River and Skyline. I was trying to think of a different way to break down this image rather ..read more

I was getting a little nervous there thinking I would run out of time but luckily I was able to squeeze this in before the holidays. This courtyard view represents the 9th Winter special image that I have created for this website. It is also the first highly detailed image that I have created for my new MIT personal visualization project which allowed me to really think through many of the details that I have been juggling in my head. This image was quite time consuming for me because I am spending more time than normal on the little details: the materials, the reflections, the aging of the bu ..read more

I have begun a new personal visualization project to start off the winter season and help me switch things up a bit. As much as I liked working on the Texas Prairie Office, the project and scope was huge which meant every image required lots of design and time to develop the illustrations. For this next project, I am keeping the scale of the project smaller and the design more paired down. The project is located on the MIT Campus and will be a “Student Hub” containing restaurants, large event spaces, and smaller study spaces. My ultimate goal with this visualization project is to spend more ..read more

This latest aerial image was probably my biggest undertaking up to this point in terms of difficulty of photoshop. I struggled to get started on this Illustration because I knew how complex it was going to be to stitch together all of the landscape elements. Because the view was so zoomed out, it meant that I had to build a large library of aerial textures and then spend lots of time piecing them together while attempting to avoid a disconnected or collage looking image. Even setting the view on this one was a challenge because I was making many of the decisions based on what I had in my in my ..read more