Progress
From Art Geek:
Progress
Saturday, April 18 2009 UTCI feel a bit farther along in my project to use SketchUp to create large and/or
complex scenes.
The first development was to finally try the experiment of taking my block figure poses and 'sketching up’
somewhat more detailed figures based on the mass conceptions. The results are shown below.
They are not particularly good or finished drawings but they were very
quick and easy to do, with all the massing/foreshortening problems
essentially solved before starting in with the actual drawing; and the
detailed drawing is so much easier than trying to model a detailed
mesh in 3d. I think the approach still seems promising.
The other experiment was to throw a bunch of recent models into a
combined SketchUp scene, take a fairly high-resolution export of that
down the street to Kinko’s, and get a 36“x60” blow-up of it. Wow!
I’m excited — it’s so big! And so wierd! The original image and the
print are shown below.
How to further pursue works like this? They might become paintings,
with the prints transfered to canvas/panel and painted directly on top,
or photo-transfered like my credit card paintings.
Or they could be framed and hung as-is (there is something CAD-like which I really like about the
giant laser printout). Or they might be produced as large-format color prints via a photo lab.
We shall see.