KROB 2011
Sunday, January 8, 2012 | ALEX HOGREFE The 2011 Krob competition winners have been announced and can be seen at www.krobarch.com. I found out about this competition a few years ago and have been visiting the site off and on ever since. The competition encourages unique styles of architectural representation both by hand and digital means. I especially appreciate the hand rendered illustrations and the skill some of these people have. I really miss doing hand rendered presentations like when I was in undergrad and it almost makes me want to take a break from the laptop and get out the graphite again. Almost.
I did some digging and found some of my old architecture drawings. I was reluctant to go digital early on in undergrad, so a lot of my presentations were completely hand rendered. I didn't start using Photoshop until about my third year of architecture school. The images below are examples of some studies and presentation work from both undergrad and graduate school. The last image was a collage made up of photographs and hand drawings done in my first semester of grad school. Be sure to check out the KRob winners when you have time.
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Reader Comments (7)
Alex,
You have done several collages that look amazing! The one on the back of your portfolio especially looks great. Is there a special way to do this? Or do you just play around until you get something?
Anyway a tutorial on this would be great.
May I ask how can we produce these kind of drawings for presentation? What software or tools integrate for the production of illustration.??
THANKS.. it is really look like the drawings from Bartlett.
so advance yet inspiring!!
Great images, are they CGI? If so a tutorial opportunity here!!
No, the images in this post were real hand renderings I did in school haha. Not CG. The last one was made up of printed out photos cut up and glued to paper with a little hand drawing over it. You can actually see some of the curved wall (second image) in the last image because they were from the same project.
@Jim, for the collage on the back of my portfolio, I just took a ton of images and threw them together mostly adjusting the layer blend modes to get them to blend together better. I had no plan, just what you said, a lot of playing around till it looked good.
You've done an amazing work!!!! How long it takes to create such an artwork?? I'm amazed. :D
I think it's hilarious that all of your comments are from people who can barely speak English.
@ Atelier,
Be careful when you write something to offense other readers!