Recent commissions

Recent commissions

This series of drawings shows a proposed residential development in North Melbourne by MAB Corporation. Felt tip pen and digital colouring based on 3D renders by McBride Charles Ryan architects.


 

Service Street park

 

Prepared for Moreland Council this illustration shows a view of a proposed park in Coburg. Felt tip pen drawing and digital colouring.

The view was set up using Sketchup and Affinity Photo as one of several options for the client

Aerial view

 A commission for a Melbourne developer this drawing was done with felt tip pen and digital colour. I used a supplied 3D CAD view and aerial imaging.

Recent commission

Malop Street finished illustration

sketchup model

An illustration showing the landscaping concept for Malop Street Geelong, Victoria. Based on a sketchup model and using Google Earth for terrain the drawing was done in felt tip pens, scanned and coloured in Affinity Photo.
 

Recent work

 

latest work

Recent works

Boronia illustrations

A series of illustrations prepared for the City of Knox, published in the Boronia Renewal Strategy 2019.

Main Street aerial view

A drawing showing road changes and new trees in a Victorian town. I had an aerial photo as reference for this one. Felt tip pen and digital colouring.

Recent park illustrations

A great project where the inner city council is purchasing industrial sites to create small parks where residential density is increasing.

Sketch

Digital sketch

Recent street view

A recent illustration commission, showing a raised eye viewpoint of proposed road and landscaping scheme and urban design. Hand drawn linework with digital colouring using Affinity Photo.

Urban design & landscape illustrations

Recent urban design illustrations

These recent illustrations were prepared for a Melbourne municipal council for their urban design framework report. They show how the proposed planning guidelines could be implemented with development in the future.

I used a 3D massing model to set up the views and precedent images as reference for the architectural styles. Hand drawn pen drawings were scanned and digitally coloured using Affinity Photo.

view 1

view 1 existing

view 2

view 2 existing

view 3

view 3 existing

Lens length and field of view

I recently came across the impressive photo "California Street, San Francisco 1964" by Todd Walker and was reminded how important the choice of camera lens when composing a view.

In setting up my street-scape illustrations I often use Google Street View or Google Earth Pro* as references. While Google Street View is terrific at showing the context information I need, there are limits to how 'realistic' the view feels compared to the experience of being there. As I am not a photographer I think this is due to the short lens used to capture wide views of Street View. Mobile phone lenses are also quite short I believe (30mm equivalent).

 The images above all show the same view of California Street with the reference building on the right side of the street (noted with an amber dot) shown at the same scale. The apparent different height of the hill beyond in each image shows how tricky it can be to correctly scale the background in a streetscape.

I often set up the context for my illustrations by creating a very basic SketchUp 3D model to get the perspective right. When setting up a SketchUp scene I need to adjust the camera Field of View to export an image that will best fit the composition and focus of my illustration.

*(I use the older non-online version of Google Earth Pro which has the ability to adjust the Field of View)

Suburban view