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3 Day SketchUp and Drawing Workshop in Denver, Colorado

Last modified on 2010-05-29 20:04:34 GMT. 3 comments. Top.

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

Last modified on 2010-05-27 19:46:49 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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

Last modified on 2010-05-16 20:24:10 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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

Last modified on 2010-05-16 19:24:18 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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

Last modified on 2010-05-11 19:55:03 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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

Last modified on 2010-05-10 20:06:00 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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

Last modified on 2010-05-10 20:05:40 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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”

Last modified on 2010-05-10 20:05:26 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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

Last modified on 2010-05-10 20:05:09 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

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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Drawing Aerial Perspectives with SketchUp

Last modified on 2010-05-10 20:04:54 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

March 20 @ 12:00 am – New Tutorial „Drawing Aerial Perspectives with SketchUp „by Jim Leggitt:“ A quick and easy way to draw an aerial perspective from a site plan is to construct a simple SketchUp massing model, establish an aerial view and then trace the perspective from a print of the scene.  Here is a “step-by-step” explanation from a recent drawing I created during a drawing workshop with landscape architects at the University of Monterrey in Mexico.“

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The River Runs Through It

Last modified on 2010-05-10 20:04:38 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

March 17 @ 9:30 am – Our Latest addition:  You must see this legendary tutorial  ” The River Runs Through It” created by Jacques Cleghorn AKA “Silver Shadow“ as the first in his Eye candy series.Also don’t miss the other two“Making of Black Hawk“ and “Making of H-M-C-S  Snowberry“ all presented here at SketchupArtists.

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Google SketchUp, Twilight Render & Photoshop Tutorial

Last modified on 2010-05-10 20:04:17 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

March 08 @ 9:00 am – Our Latest addition:  Google SketchUp, TwilightRender & Photoshop Tutorial “Making of Hillside House” created by Ibon Enriquez, an architectural student from San Sebastian in northern Spain.

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Demo Reel by Adam Warner

Last modified on 2010-03-07 21:52:02 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

March 07 @ 10:00 am –This newly created demo reel highlights several completed projects and works-in-progress by Desmone & Associates Architects. All of the materials seen in this video were created “in-house” by Desmone’s graphic artist. These projects started with modeling in SketchUp and were rendered with V-ray. Roughly 70% was rendered with V-ray for SketchUp and the rest of the projects were taken into 3ds max and rendered with V-ray as well.

See the full Spotlight article on Adam Warner and “Making of Identity Nightclub” with a complete Video here.

Site Down !!!

Last modified on 2010-05-10 20:03:15 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

March 05 @ 09:30 am – We experienced some technical difficulties over the last couple of days and especially yesterday on SketchUpArtists, we are told it is all due to increased traffic. It all seems well now and we are up and running again. We would like to this opportunity apologize for the inconvenience to our regular visitors and readers of SketchUpArtists. We have increased the allowed bandwidth space and will keep monitoring the situation over the next few days. Hopefully it should be fine now.

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IES Light Tutorial using V-Ray for SketchUp

Last modified on 2010-05-10 20:02:32 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

March 05 @ 09:10 am – IES Light Tutorial using V-Ray for SketchUp by Nomeradona

The latest version of V-ray for SketchUp (ver. 1.48.66) has the new added feature of IES Lights and Spotlights. V-Ray works within the SketchUp environment allowing users to be able to efficiently incorporate the task of rendering within their current workflow. In this simple tutorial we are going to set up three basic pin lights…

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Our Recently Added Tutorials

Last modified on 2010-05-10 20:02:06 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

March 05 @ 09:00 am – If you haven’t had the chance please check out our recently added tutorials:

Add a Rotoscope Effect to Your Image by Rocky Vezeau
A quick and simple method in achieving a Rotoscope effect for a rendered image by Rocky Vezeau, aka ‘xrok1′. A regular contributor on the SketchUcation, Twilight and Podium forums to mention a few and now here at SketchUpArtists…

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Simple Overlay and Trace Project by Jim Leggitt
Jim Leggitt FAIA, is an architect, urban planner, and professional illustrator. He has been practicing for over thirty-five years in Denver, Colorado.  Jim has conducted drawing seminars and workshops at AIA National Conventions, AIA regional and local conferences, universities, architectural firms and for allied design professionals throughout the [...]

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Making of Black Hawk by Jacques Cleghorn
The Black Hawk is the Army’s front-line utility helicopter used for air assault, air cavalry and aeromedical evacuation units. It is designed to carry 11 combat-loaded air assault troops and it is capable of moving a 105-millimeter howitzer and 30 rounds of ammunition. First deployed in 1978, the Black

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Creating Perspectives with SketchUp by Jim Leggitt
In recent years, SketchUp modeling has become the preferred digital tool for academic and professional design environments allowing students, architects, interior designers, planners, industrial designers and practically anyone involved with design to easily build, manipulate and view 3D digital mock-ups of their concepts. Constructing models may be easy, but [...]

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Perspective Drawing from Google SketchUp by Jim Leggitt
Drawing perspectives  involving planning projects can be challenging and somewhat  intimidating. A great method of visualizing master plans is to simply  build a SketchUp model, determine an optimum view and then trace over a  print of scene…

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The Daily Dispatch

Last modified on 2010-05-10 20:00:01 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

March 05 @ 08:00 am – The Daily Dispatch by SketchUpartists

Welcome to The Daily Dispatch produced by SketchUpArtists. This is a News Blog for everything related to Google SketchUp and 3D modeling that catches our eye and think that you should hear about!

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New Freelance SketchUp Jobs

Last modified on 2010-01-29 15:53:42 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

January 28 @ 9:00 pm : Immediate – Freelance Work Los Angeles area and 3D modeling of yacht exteriors. See our Job section here.

The Quasi-Clay Style by Oliver Shea

Last modified on 2010-05-10 19:58:25 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Dec 10 @ 7:55 am – New Tutorial added today -The Quasi-Clay Style by Oliver Shea

The image I am using in this tutorial is part of a housing project I am presently working on. We are going to try and achieve a fake or ‘Quasi Clay Style’ effect in this tutorial. You will need Google SketchUp, SketchUp Podium and Photoshop.

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Easy Watercolor Painting Effect

Last modified on 2010-05-10 19:54:56 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Dec 06 @ 17:00 pm – New Tutorial in Tips & Tricks – Easy Watercolor Painting Effect – In Photoshop by Steve Patterson

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Line Art Watercolor Tip

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Dec 06 @ 17:00 pm – New Tip – Line Art Watercolor – Using Filter/ Blending Options

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Realistic Watercolor Effect

Last modified on 2010-05-10 19:56:30 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Dec 06 @ 17:00 pm – New Tutorial – Realistic Watercolor Effect – In Photoshop by DesignSpot.net– Using Filter/ Blending Options

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New !!! – Book Area at SketchupArtists

Last modified on 2010-05-10 19:57:27 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

We now have a book area at SketchUpArtists. We have chosen categories that will be of interest to our visitors. Architecture,Drawing,Construction Plans all types of design,software, Photoshop and other specialised areas. Check it out. We have hand picked a lot of the titles available and there are 1000’s to choose from, more to come…

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Interview-Nicolas Rateau

Last modified on 2010-05-10 19:52:14 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Nov 28 @ 17:00 pmCreating With SketchUp – Interview With Nicolas Rateau  the second in a series of articles  presenting the authors that took part in a joint book “Créer avec SketchUp – 16 projets, de l’architecture au théâtre” published in French and translated into English by the SketchUpArtists team.

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New Tutorial – Blender to SketchUp

Last modified on 2010-05-10 19:51:39 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Nov 28@ 9:00 – New Tutorial just out !!!  - Blender to SketchUp – A Workaround for Texturing Organic Shapes by Michalis Zissiou. See the Full Tutorial  here.

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A Watercolor and Line Drawing Ink Effect Tutorial

Last modified on 2010-05-10 19:51:04 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Nov 21 @ 9:50 – A Brand New Tutorial just released !!!  - A Watercolor and Line Drawing Ink Effect by Nomeradona. See the Full Tutorial  here.

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Interview–Tim Danaher

Last modified on 2010-05-10 19:50:23 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Nov 21 @ 9:20 amCreating With SketchUp – Interview With Tim Danaher – First in a series of articles presenting the contributing authors of the joint book  “Créer avec SketchUp – 16 projets, de l’architecture au théâtre” published in French and translated into English by the SketchUpArtists team.

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Sketchupartists on Youtube

Last modified on 2010-05-10 19:49:39 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Nov 21 @ 9:20 amSketchUpArtists are now on Youtube and will be posting videos with a difference on a regular basis. You can subscribe here.

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New Render Tips

Last modified on 2010-05-10 19:48:30 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Nov 14 @ 8:20 amNew render tips in our Tips and Tricks section, check it out!… Render Tip – Use Special Water Effects by Al Hart.

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Latest Comments

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Latest Comments – Nov 13 @ 16:50 pmHi James and Mateo, Thanks for this opportunity to present the book and its authors to the English-speaking SketchUp users community …
Laurent Brixius

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Just Out !!! Interview with Jacques Cleghorn

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Nov 13  @ 10:10 am Just Out !!! Interview with Jacques Cleghorn (AKA `silver_shadow´)

Jacques Cleghorn, better know as ’silver_shadow’ from Cape Town, South Africa talks about SketchUp , work and his amazing ‘Eye Candy’ series.

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New Tutorial added today

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Nov 13 @ 9:55 am – New Tutorial added today - Making of H.M.C.S  Snowberry by Jacques Cleghorn (AKA `silver_shadow´)

I was always fascinated by the way some people built everything in models in such detail and decided to start the ‘ Candy’ series, trying to emulate them, but by only using Sketchup with no other external applications for modeling. This tutorial is a quick overview of  ‘Eye Candy 3′  The H.M.C.S. Snowberry. I go through some tools that I used and how some of it was built. All the plug-ins used in this tutorial are widely available on SketchUp sites and forums.

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New Tutorial

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Nov 6 @ 9:44 pm : New Tutorial – Pencil Overlay Tutorial by S.Porobic (AKA `Sepo´)

This tutorial has stemmed out of the need to produce attractive “hand made” images which are to be used when discussing architectural projects with clients and planning authorities alike. In my experience I have found a need to create relatively abstract images which are to serve the purpose of keeping a project open in the early stages of the design process. Check it out!

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New Spotlight Article added today

Last modified on 2010-05-10 19:42:08 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Nov 6 @ 9:40 pm : New Spotlight Article added today..Laurent Brixius – From Architecture to Theatre

An interview with Laurent Brixius architect, architectural 3D artist and author based in Beaufays, Belgium. All about his work and new book.

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Latest Jobs

Last modified on 2009-11-13 09:05:51 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Nov 5 @ 8:00 pm: Freelance Job -  How about ‘Sketching Up’ a new hotel in Los Angeles area? For details and more job opportunities  here..



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