I am an artist who has come across a possible new direction for my commercial art.
While outside working on an artistic pen and ink line drawing of a house, someone walked by and looked at the progress and complimented my ability to render the building with freehand accuracy. He worked at an architectural firm, and occasionally they have clients who like hand drawn interior images. That these images would be done from the architectural drawings. I imagine that you can command a decent fee for such works.
Since my preferred method is working from life, and my own sketches, I thought that Mac AutoCad software would be a great help in quickly visualizing the interior's perspective layout. I would then be free to do the rest. Knocking in such perspectives with the correct proportions would eliminate the tediousness of making the translations - as well as getting the jobs done faster. I assume I'd print out such images myself in the correct size, trace faint pencil outlines on the art paper, then work on the freehand drawing itself.
The software must be able to take their drawings if they come as 2D elevations, or floor plans and make the translation into 3D perspective drawings. I am assuming that the Architectural firms would provide what I need, however I can imagine on occasion I would need to do that myself.
Do you have any suggestions for software that you have used that is very simple to use for such tasks, and is relatively inexpensive? I cannot imagine needing a full professional program to do such things. Ease of use is so important to me. Any ideas would be most welcome.
Mike
While outside working on an artistic pen and ink line drawing of a house, someone walked by and looked at the progress and complimented my ability to render the building with freehand accuracy. He worked at an architectural firm, and occasionally they have clients who like hand drawn interior images. That these images would be done from the architectural drawings. I imagine that you can command a decent fee for such works.
Since my preferred method is working from life, and my own sketches, I thought that Mac AutoCad software would be a great help in quickly visualizing the interior's perspective layout. I would then be free to do the rest. Knocking in such perspectives with the correct proportions would eliminate the tediousness of making the translations - as well as getting the jobs done faster. I assume I'd print out such images myself in the correct size, trace faint pencil outlines on the art paper, then work on the freehand drawing itself.
The software must be able to take their drawings if they come as 2D elevations, or floor plans and make the translation into 3D perspective drawings. I am assuming that the Architectural firms would provide what I need, however I can imagine on occasion I would need to do that myself.
Do you have any suggestions for software that you have used that is very simple to use for such tasks, and is relatively inexpensive? I cannot imagine needing a full professional program to do such things. Ease of use is so important to me. Any ideas would be most welcome.
Mike
easy peasy!