3 Day SketchUp and Drawing Workshop in Denver, Colorado

May 29, 2010

Our good friends and SketchUpArtists tutorial contributors Jim Leggitt and Daniel Tal are doing a hybrid visualization workshop which teaches basic SketchUp modeling strategies, how to create best views and develop hand drawings from the scenes.This is a unique opportunity to develop and hone your modeling and artistic drawing skills with two of the best in the industry. It takes place on the 22-24 July 2010 at The Curtis Hotel in  Denver, Colorado. Click on the image below for more info.

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New Tutorial – The Edith Green Wendell Wyatt Federal Building – a digital watercolor with Photoshop

May 27, 2010

May 27 @ 9:40 pm – New Tutorial – The Edith Green Wendell Wyatt Federal Building – a digital watercolor with Photoshop by Scott Baumberger.

Scott Baumberger has been offering a high quality professional service to architects, designers and developers for many years. He uses a digital process to produce imagery that ranges in technique from photo-realistic to simulated watercolor effects. Scott’s illustrations have been featured in numerous industry professional publications. Scott has also won numerous awards for his work. In this detailed tutorial  Scott shows us his work-flow in producing a digital watercolor using a SketchUp output image and Photoshop.

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Spotlight on Robh Ruppel – Google SketchUp in Game Design

May 16, 2010

May 16 @ 9:30 pm – Spotlight on Robh Ruppel – Google SketchUp in Game Design

To celebrate our first anniversary this week (wow its a year already) at SketchUpArtists we are honored to present in our spotlight section Robh Ruppel who works in Art Direction and Visual Development at Naughty Dog based in Santa Monica, California. Robh is a highly skilled, 2D/3D professional with many years experience in using digital and traditional media. Robh worked as Art Director and Production Designer for Disney Feature Animation for nearly 12 years. He has extensive knowledge in the digital/traditional arts includes visual development, layout design, character design, set design, game production art, product design and landscape painting. Read full article here…

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New Tutorial-Creating Fog and Night Effect Using GIMP

May 16, 2010

May 16 @ 9:20 pm – New Tutorial-Creating Fog and Night Effect Using GIMP by Matthew L. Facundus

Matthew L. Facundus  sent us a super easy tutorial for creating the effect of day time fog aerial view and then using that same effect for a night scene. This method is used to create the illusion of fog for an aerial perspective using GIMP .

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SketchUp 2D Image Export with Alpha Mask

May 11, 2010

May 11@ 10:00 pm – New Tutorial published – SketchUp 2D Image Export with Alpha Mask by David Macdonald

This is the first of three tutorials concerning the exporting of SketchUp models to other applications as 2D graphics. They are progressive. You need to do them in order, as each will assume knowledge from the previous.

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SketchUpArtists Web Conference with NorthWestern University

May 9, 2010

May 09 @ 20:20 pm – We were recently asked by William Graham, a student at the Center for Talent Development at NorthWestern University and founding president of CTD’s International Architectural Society, to carry out a web conference with young talented students who are interested in both architecture and SketchUp. The Center for Talent development is based in Evanston, Illinois. Read more..

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Adam Warner featured artist at ASGVIS

May 3, 2010

Our friend and contributor Adam Warner is featured artist this month at ASGVIS

Every so often we come across an image posted in the ASGVIS Forum that gets everyone in the office talking. That was the case for Adam Warner’s “Modern Kitchen Rendering” which he made using the new version of V-Ray for SketchUp. Read more here.

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USC Village – A step-by-step guide to making a “digital watercolor”

May 3, 2010

April 23@ 22:00 am – New Tutorial “USC Village – A step-by-step guide to making  a “digital watercolor” architectural illustration using  SketchUp and Photoshop” by Scott Baumberger. Scott Baumberger has been offering a high quality professional service to architects, designers and developers for many years. In this detailed tutorial  Scott shows us his workflow in producing a digital watercolor using a SketchUp output image and Photoshop.

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Use Image Editing Software Inside SketchUp

May 3, 2010

April 23@ 22:00 am – New Tutorial -Use Image Editing Software Inside SketchUp by Nomeradona .This simple little tutorial will show you how to edit a texture image right inside SketchUp with Photoshop or whichever image editing software you use.

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