Jim Leggitt, a SketchUp user from Drawing professional has recently written about a new digital watercolor technique that he has been exploring with Google SketchUp. He wanted to feature this traditional watercolor process for the talented illustrator Michael Abbott. Michael needed to use it for a proposed golf course development, so he built the original SketchUp model for him and illustrated the beautiful tradition painting using four following steps:
Step-1. Concept for Master Plan- The planning team designed the golf course and club house adjacent to mid-rise residential buildings. They included several watercolor painting of the golf course and other amenities for visual presentation material.
Step-2. SketchUp Massing model- He built a simple SketchUp block model for the golf clubhouse complex and made an effort to insert just enough model details knowing that the building were only going to be seen from the aerial perspective.
Step-3. Ink line Drawing- They first enlarge the aerial view to 17’’x24’’ and created an overlay pencil sketch of the scene for team review and comment. Michael Abbott then illustrated the scene on 1000H vellum with a 0.25mm fine point Radiograph pen. His line drawing was scanned at 300dpi, lightened in Photoshop and printed onto watercolor paper with waterproof ink.
Step-4. Watercolor painting- Finally Michael had the print of his line draw mounted on a heavy board and started to paint onto the paper with traditional watercolor and some of the white highlights painted with opaque paint.
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