CHINA VILLA RENDERING

I have just finished a few architectural renderings this past week for a really exciting villa design located in China. I started out the illustration as a daytime scene, but decided to take advantage of all the glass and go with a dusk scene. I put a ton of post-processing time into this image. You can see from the kerkythea rendered image below that not much was left untouched. I spent about 2 hours setting up the model and rendering in Kerkythea. Then another 4 or 5 hours in Photoshop. Half my time was spent looking for materials and images online. Usually, I go with a blue color overlay for this time of day. However, with the amount of concrete and glass, I was afraid the villa would come off feeling like a cold office building. A simple sky and lots of red and yellow color overlays were used to warm up the scene.

Above- Sketchup image export

Above- Quick Kerkythea rendering used as the base image in post processing

EXTERIOR NIGHT RENDERING

This shot required an extreme amount of post-processing with Photoshop. Looking at the difference between the image rendered in Kerkythea and the final outcome, very little of the original Kerkythea rendering is left untouched. Unlike rendering programs, applying the textures in Photoshop allows me to instantly make adjustments and have much more control of the final outcome without re-rendering for hours. This illustration took about 8 to hours to produce including rendering in kerk and editing in Photoshop.

Sketchup model

Model rendered in Kerkythea

Final image

More on the Jindu project can be found at Paul Lukez Architecture

RENDERING TUTORIALS

I have started creating some rendering tutorials explaining easy ways to produce architectural illustrations using only Photoshop and Sketchup. Eventually, I will get into some more advanced stuff. But for now, i am sticking to the basics

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