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Originally Posted by Etesia
How much time does it take to draw one building?
I work with Photoshop (pencil & brush) and draw with 1:1 pixels.
It takes about 30 minutes to 1 hour per building.
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I usually try to get my hands on a floorplan and/or section of the building (since plain elevations are usually hard to get) and draw myself the elevation I want to have. For office and residential buildings I usually try to create a cornered view because it looks more interesting, for churches I usually aim for a south front view or the towers to be left and the apsis/choir to be right.
If I can't find any plans I work of google maps images and measure them.
For the heights I try to find verifiable heights for the building and try to work out the rest by proportion.
Drawing an elevation of a church in CAD usually takes 1 hour, simpler buildings take half an hour or less.
Then I colour them in Photoshop. In a first step I assign all the colors/materials and in a second step I add shaddows.
Then I merge all the layers and scale it to 1:1 and do minor adjustments if details don't look right.
The photoshop part for a complex building takes another hour, for a simple office building it may take als little as 20 mins.
Thats usually my process...
Here are some of the steps:
and the shown examples:
2 hours total
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~40 mins total
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1 hour total