Architectural Illustration,

[Milho]

The best method is to do it with a 3d program :p

nice work :)

[brobins]

Thanks but not what I wanted to hear,

I have my house measurments already drawn up and saved as a DWg so I could go about it the 3d way but I really just wanna learn how to produce proffesional renderings in photoshop.

oh, and i think the best architectural renderings ive seen have been done via 3d wireframes and photoshop for the rendering.

does anyone have any tuturials on this sort of thing?

Thanks

[jeroentje]

Okay, so you did this with pen&ink and now you want to color it in Photoshop. Here we go:

4043 x 4596, that's 70mb in PS and it will rapidly become more, like 200Mb, if you add new layers. So make it about 2000x2250 (or if you got a brand new big son of a ... ;) )

You have one layer now (from your original scan) called "background". Double click it and hit OK.

Now it's a floating layer. Let's call it "outlines"
Put a layer under it and fill that one with a color (let's say blue).
D-click "outlines" again and start moving the little triangel of "this layer" to the left. You'll see when its far enough.

Delete the blue layer and duplicate "outlines".
Now you can add as many layers as you need between the two "outlines" layers, to start coloring.

If you got Photoshop 6 or 7, you can lock the upper "outlines".

Two last tips: don't add too many layers. Certainly not in the beginning. Stay with one for the roof, one for the walls, one for the floors, one for the outer-walls and one for the details. You may get over-easy with it and loose track. And allways name your layers. Allways save as a psd, so you'll keep your layers.

Good luck, I'll keep following this.
jeroentje
For a wip: check out my mermaid in last month's challenge.

[brobins]

Thanks for your reply,

I have one question though, when you say

"D-click "outlines" again and start moving the little triangel of "this layer" to the left. You'll see when its far enough."

I dont know what you mean, I hold down D and click but nothing happens.

I am using Photoshop 7, thanks

[jeroentje]

Oops, sorry man. That's my fault. Maybe a bit lazy in the typing. What I mean is this:

Doubleclick "outlines" again and you'll see a screen with 2 bars. It's a about the upper one.
There's a gradient in it, with 2 triangles, 1 left and 1 right. Move the one on the right towards the middle (not to little and not too far. The blue layer is just for seeing what happens here).

This way you can make all the white paper-color from your sketch transparent, so your future coloring will be visible under the linings.

Again; good luck.
jeroentje

[brobins]

thanks man,

is this method any better than using layers on top of the outlines but with a "Muliply" layer mode?

do you have any tips on colouring it in? how am i to get the detail and stuff just right?

Thanks again.

[jeroentje]

Sorry man, don't understand the question. This is the method to colour over your outlines, but with the extra outline-layer on top, with all the white taken out, you can still use the outlines as outlines for your drawing.

jeroentje

[brobins]

ok,

one more thing, should i start by just adding flat colours?

thanks

[Joril]

do you have any tips on colouring it in? how am i to get the detail and stuff just right?

Since the lines are all straight, I suggest you use the polygonal lasso tool (it's very clean that way). Put every segment in a different layer.
On top of all the layers is the outlining (without the white filling).

For a good outline-photoshop tutorial check:
http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/tutorial/cg1.html

[jeroentje]

Yes, get the basic colors in.
then add shadows and light-parts, then start detailing. Don't go detailing if you're not completely statisfied with where you are at that staige. Basically; start with the big picture and get more and more detailed along the way.

jeroentje

- do you know that you can save a selection by pressing "save selection"? They end up under your channels. They don't influence your cmyk or rgb channels, and you can even change them, duplicate and combine them.

[brobins]

okay i have started adding solid, flat colours in,

do you think i am goin about this in the wright way?

thanks

[jeroentje]

It's a bit early to tell. Just keep coloring and have some fun.
jeroentje

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