Hello Amanda, I hope you don’t mind me emailing you however I was just admiring your lovely illustrations on your web site, such as ‘The Cottage concept illustration’ – is that done free hand or on a cad package and if so what one? I am looking to learn how to use one of the computer aided packages for my own garden design practice hence my question. Thanks for your time reading this and hope you dont mind me asking.
Those illustrations were hand-drawn at A3, scanned and saved as a pdf, then opened and rendered in Photoshop. I’ve started to use SketchUp now as basis for my 3D illustrations, adding my own hand-drawn plants to the basic 3D modelling. Then it’s the same process to scan into Photoshop to render, but I could render in SketchUp. I also work in 3D in Vectorworks and have used this as a basis for illustration, but prefer the hand-drawn look and render.
Which CAD package are you learning? All CAD programmes are massively comprehensive but don’t try and make one programme do everything; they all have their plus points and you can tailor how you use them to the way you want to present your work. Dabble and see what you fancy!
You have lovely isometric drawings on your website. SketchUp is speedy for quick 3D visuals and if you didn’t fancy Photoshop, you could hand render, then scan the rendered image for computer use (for web and email).
Good luck! Do keep in touch if you’d like more details.
Hello Amanda, I hope you don’t mind me emailing you however I was just admiring your lovely illustrations on your web site, such as ‘The Cottage concept illustration’ – is that done free hand or on a cad package and if so what one? I am looking to learn how to use one of the computer aided packages for my own garden design practice hence my question. Thanks for your time reading this and hope you dont mind me asking.
Many thanks
Karen
Dear Karen
Thank you for your kind words.
Those illustrations were hand-drawn at A3, scanned and saved as a pdf, then opened and rendered in Photoshop. I’ve started to use SketchUp now as basis for my 3D illustrations, adding my own hand-drawn plants to the basic 3D modelling. Then it’s the same process to scan into Photoshop to render, but I could render in SketchUp. I also work in 3D in Vectorworks and have used this as a basis for illustration, but prefer the hand-drawn look and render.
Which CAD package are you learning? All CAD programmes are massively comprehensive but don’t try and make one programme do everything; they all have their plus points and you can tailor how you use them to the way you want to present your work. Dabble and see what you fancy!
You have lovely isometric drawings on your website. SketchUp is speedy for quick 3D visuals and if you didn’t fancy Photoshop, you could hand render, then scan the rendered image for computer use (for web and email).
Good luck! Do keep in touch if you’d like more details.
with kind regards
Amanda