Bexhill - Spatial character

My task for the group project was Spatial character, I wasn't  quite sure by the term to start with but I think I got on ok.

The end of Woodwharf

Here is the final submission, It turn out better than I thought it would, as to start with I found it hard to get to together, but I was surprised in how much I did in the short time I worked on it. 

First Axo

I then got on with my Axonometric, which i thought would be a doddle just like my perspectives which took me a whole day just to do bloody two of them, so to start with tried hand rendering. I went to work to do this so got all the way there and realised i had forgot my flexi curve, so rather then going back to get it thought it would be a bright idea and carry on and do it free hand, well as you could imagine didn't turn out the best and you can see, I tried to tell myself that it was good but I did change it and rendered it Photoshop straight from sketch up, not the best Ive done but it looked fairly ok in the end.

Here is the awful first one,

So after  pulling my hair out,  I remembered that I could Clone stamp from my perspectives the colours I managed to get, so that solved all my problems.

Perspectives

After finally being happy with the design, then worked on trying to add texture and atmosphere to my perspectives, i tried many different ways to do this, started by tracing the sketch up images then hand rendering then with water coloured pencils and markers, this was the first stage which took alot of practices but got somewhere in the end.

These were the first stages with no tinkering around, they looked dull and not what I wanted at all. So then the tinkering started on Photoshop, and here is the out come,

I changed the levels, increased the contrast and tinkered with the curve's, all enhancing the the images, I hope!! Obviously the bottom image is slightly different view from the original but i did do about thirty different ones and these where the final ones that when on the finished sheet, well might have tinkered a little bit more. 

I started by using my own scanner at home, which i found to be my main problem, as you can see with the first images, awful, so luckily I work at a printers so could take my stuff there after hours and use a good scanner, makes a big difference. 

The Start of the infamous WOODWHARF

Right here is the first stage of my submission, I took my concept and expressed it as best i could using a pattern.  I then took it all in to sketch up to bring everything and work with my model in 3d easily. 

Finally some posts - better late than never

Finally got round to posting these, there will defiantly be a lot more post this week. The top image is the scan from trace and the bottom image is a scan from standard 90 gsm paper.