Hand drawn rendering with ArchiCAD

[Chadwick]

I'm trying to make perspectives that have a high quality hand drawn / painted feel to them - currently I'm using ArchiCAD's sketch rendering engine in combination with Piranesi. Its working out alright, but I think the quality could be better. If anyone has any tips on this process or the two methods I'm using I would appreciate the help.


Thank you

[Anonymous]

Can you show us some pics of what you have already done?

[Rick Thompson]

I've been using the sketch rendering and opening into a photo editing program (Canvas, but any will do obviously). Then erasing areas for bushes and maybe a foreground tree... print it... hand draw bushes and trees (THat seems to actually make it look hand drawn:) and scan it back into the computer where I alter the line color a bit and make the background the same color as my page, which allows selected areas to be contrasting white. It is actually very quick to do, but what I do is very simple. If interested you can see a samples of renderings at http://www.thompsonplans.com/plans/pages/thumbnails/NewPlans

But, if your really after a hand drawn look, printing the generated image and hand adding landscaping does the trick... at least for my needs.

ps.. the 1411B (under the same new plans page) has a color version done w/ the basic AC rendering and adding watercolor. We don't really do these except when asked.

[Anonymous]

Rick wrote:
I've been using the sketch rendering and opening into a photo editing program (Canvas, but any will do obviously). Then erasing areas for bushes and maybe a foreground tree... print it... hand draw bushes and trees (THat seems to actually make it look hand drawn:) and scan it back into the computer where I alter the line color a bit and make the background the same color as my page, which allows selected areas to be contrasting white. It is actually very quick to do, but what I do is very simple. If interested you can see a samples of renderings at http://www.thompsonplans.com/plans/pages/thumbnails/NewPlans

But, if your really after a hand drawn look, printing the generated image and hand adding landscaping does the trick... at least for my needs.

ps.. the 1411B (under the same new plans page) has a color version done w/ the basic AC rendering and adding watercolor. We don't really do these except when asked.

Looks Good, Rick.

[Dwight]

Very retro - suits the designs well.
You let the computer do the hard work and then have the fun!