Architectural Studies - Constant Updates!

**Main Loop** · July 9th, 2006, 05:57 PM

These are just quick studies, not more than an hour, that im doing to get used to doing buildings and environments, composition, lighting, color, etc.. someithing i damn sure didnt do enough of before... i plan on updating regularly

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**Diego** · July 9th, 2006, 06:04 PM

Very cool, i was wandering what you were up to.
Its great that you're expanding your mental library, and summed up to your skills you'll be good in no time.
I don't know if you try it but a good idea would be taking photos of a same location in different hours of the day, then do studies of that, and see what happens with colors and such.
Anyways, hope to see more.

**Main Loop** · July 10th, 2006, 05:09 AM

diego - yeah this is one thing im doing, havent ever tried that exercise with photos of mine, mostly cuz ive never tried taking phoots of the same place at different times of the day... some day i'll try it..

one more before bed

**Fellah.** · July 10th, 2006, 05:34 AM

Main - it would be really cool if you posted some progressshots! These are great!

**Main Loop** · July 10th, 2006, 02:45 PM

Fellah - Sure, here ya go, did this one this morning, 1.5 hrs..

architecture's much different than figures, because you do get to use all those definite hard shapes and straight lines, once you know how to use them, all you need to keep in mind is perspective...

**Fellah.** · July 10th, 2006, 03:24 PM

Very cool, man. Thanks alot for showing the progress!

**Alday.J** · July 10th, 2006, 03:31 PM

Yup ! I agree, way too cool ! And refreshing ! Great stuff you post here !
Respect !
J.

**Infinit** · July 10th, 2006, 05:15 PM

cool ideas in the architechture

esp in #3 of post 1
thx for the wip shots too

**Main Loop** · July 11th, 2006, 04:36 AM

Fellah, Alday J. - Glad you liked it
Infinit - Yeah they're cool, wish i'd thought of them...

1 more

**Fireflights** · July 11th, 2006, 04:51 AM

nice loose sketches. I tend to have trouble with that, so I'm envious

Would like to see more stuff!

**Meatsworthy** · July 11th, 2006, 11:00 AM

That last one is very successful. Definately feeling the space (as if I'm in there).

**Main Loop** · July 12th, 2006, 02:14 AM

thanks meatsworthy, i really like your stuff in the speed paint thread

**Main Loop** · July 13th, 2006, 02:31 AM

some pencils i had done previous to this thread:

**Diego** · July 13th, 2006, 02:52 AM

Sweet. Are these from life or from photo?
All those studies are with the purpose of enhancing your enviroment skills and portfolio? how's that going?

**Main Loop** · July 13th, 2006, 03:10 AM

these are all from photo, i wish we had this kind of sweet architecture around here.. for the second question, umm sort of... im just trying to get my visual vocabulary larger, especially with things im not as familiar with, but just as important with figures.. the portfolio, ehh goign very slowly as far as concepts go....

**Main Loop** · July 13th, 2006, 04:46 PM

I spent a lot longer on this one, like 2.5 hrs

**Main Loop** · July 14th, 2006, 05:32 AM

tonight's

**Zaknafain** · July 14th, 2006, 06:40 AM

Interesting studies.
The pencilsketches are my favorites at the moment. The digipaintings don't look solid enough. But don't take this as a serious crit because I have no clue about architecture at all.
I think I have to do something like that as well. (because I suck at architecture)

**Main Loop** · July 14th, 2006, 03:59 PM

zaknafian - nah, you must have somethign, if you know nothing about architecture and still see something, then there's something definitely wrong.. anyone else got thoughts?

one more, got bored of this one, probably shows..

**Alday.J** · July 14th, 2006, 05:11 PM

Dude, this is very VERY impressive !
I love it ! I keep an eye on this thread.

J.

**Main Loop** · July 14th, 2006, 08:54 PM

thanks alday j, im glad you appreciate what im doing here........

wasnt really gonna do another one today but i was really kicked in the ass by hipper, so i had to do it

**Infinit** · July 15th, 2006, 03:09 AM

I'm very glad you share those with us
I'm impressed by such pictures a lot (mainly because I'm not good at creating them^^)

I think I'll try to learn it soon

**Fireflights** · July 15th, 2006, 03:24 AM

Crit for post #19:

I think the dropshadow doesn't work very well in this case...it just makes it look too much like it came from photoshop, and it's kind of odd because it makes the object feel like it's immediately ontop of the sky.

I think the post made above that one is one of my fav's though. I am *really* loving these studies.

**awesomus prime** · July 15th, 2006, 05:43 AM

Those are some disgustingly amazing pieces. Wow. Great job.

**fooxoo** · July 15th, 2006, 06:34 AM

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachm...1&d=1152823564 - fav so far. All of them are really good architecture studies. Great exercise!!

**Alday.J** · July 15th, 2006, 07:39 AM

Thanks for the update, man. I really love your thread. I always enjoy seeing the kind of things I can't draw.

for you !
Keep posting the jewels, Main Loop.
J.

**Meatsworthy** · July 15th, 2006, 09:35 AM

I think the ability for the image to convey a sense of the space is what determines it's success (like for most stuff). Anyway, that was what we were told when drawing plans/sections in uni

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#21 does this really well.

Not sure how important architectural details are, it does seem like the ones with a high frequency of details (#9, #21) are more appealing... but that could just be a matter of taste. Would love to see some classical architecture (baroque)!

**Alday.J** · July 15th, 2006, 02:41 PM

[Bump !]...Just for the hell of it !

It's official, you have a fan in France.
Can't do anything else than check your thread again and again !
Magic, man ! It's pure Magic !

J.

**Main Loop** · July 16th, 2006, 03:02 AM

Infinit - its really not that hard, at least the ones i do.. it just requires a bit of a different skill set, and some commitment..
fireflights -thanks for the crit, i shoulda went and painted into that more..
awesomus prime - thanks
alday j. - im happy you're enjoyign these so much, thanks for the high rating
meatsworthy - thanks, you know, anything you leaqrned in school is more htan i did, because they didnt teach us anything about that kind of stuff... it could be a matter of opinion but there are certain things tha almost always appeal, like high contrast, or color harmony.. i think thats one of them.. let me finish with these modern architecture books, i have other themes on the way

just trying painter this time....