This month's featured artist at ASGVIS is Adam Warner

Adam was recently featured in our 'Spotlight' section over at SketchUpArtists. Also known as 'steerlers05' on some popular forums Adam has continued to amaze us with his wonderful talent and 3D modeling. Adam Warner is a full time Architectural Illustrator and Intern Interior Designer at Desmone & Associates Architects. As an Architectural Illustrator, Adam specializes in computer rendering and 3-D animation.

See the full article here at ASGVIS...

SketchUpArtists Tips & Tricks

Digital Watercolor Architectural Rendering in Photoshop by Scott Baumberger

‘Mountain Lodge’ is a step by step guide quide to making a digital watercolor rendering in Photoshop. This model was built in SketchUp and Autocad and all files were then compiled in one model filein 3D Studio Max for rendering. Scott has a great technique and eye for detail. Don’t miss this one! See the full tut here..

Tutorial - Use Image editing software inside SketchUp

Nice little image editing tutorial 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. See the full tutorial here at SketchUpArtists.

Making a digital watercolor with SketchUp and Photoshop - Tutorial

A new tutorial 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.

Read the full tutorial here at SketchUpArtists.

50 Rendering Tutorials

This is a collection of really cool CG rendering tutorials from a selection of CG sites. Various software being used but.. hey we can all pick some tips up sometimes! Some nice work...link here.

The benefits of 3D presentations......

A short article I came across recently on the benefits of 3D design. Its in a national industry magazine called Hardscape Magazine. It also features a couple of renders by Adam Hails. Here are some images of his work on Facebook   He is also a regular contributor to the SketchUcation Forums. See the full article here..

Some free high resolution textures..

Pack two of various high resolution textures from Aqueous Sun. These fifty free textures can be used for both personal and commercial use.The link for pack one is also there. See here..nice!

Useful Interesting Article - What Prices to Charge as a Freelancer/Artist

The link to this article was posted over at the TwilightRender forum and I thought it may be useful to post it here as well. Its a question often asked and debated and this article goes someway to advise on this particular dilemma.
Here is the intro to Charles Leo's article, founder of Lunar Studio -
"Unless you’re intent on liv­ing on the streets, work­ing side jobs, or are for­tu­nate to have the sup­port of wealthy par­ents and bene­fac­tors, most of us at one point or another have to ask our­selves — “what prices should I charge?” Pric­ing out and valu­ing your work is a great mys­tery. If you look around the Inter­net and even ask oth­ers for advice, the amount of money — espe­cially for artists, ranges a very wide gamut. The price point is very dif­fi­cult to gauge with so many peo­ple out there. Of course to some degree, what you can charge is indica­tive of your skill level, but for the sake of this arti­cle I’m just going to dis­cuss what an aver­age busi­ness­man, free­lancer, artist, and even pho­tog­ra­pher should be charg­ing at the very minimum".
Read the rest of Charles Leo's very informative article here...