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Sketch Up Components – Sketchy Plants and Shrubs
Set of sketchy plants and shrubs for sketchup. These are 2D 'face me' components. The plants work really well with your sketch up model, making your sketch up exports look good right from the jump. Sketchy Plants - Sketch Up Components: buy buy Terms and Conditions of...
PSD Downloads – Sketchy Trees
Set of six sketchy trees in photoshop with transparent backgrounds. These are ready to be dropped directly into your photoshop visuals. Sketchy Trees - Photoshop Downloads: buy Terms and Conditions of Use:These components as provided 'as seen' and with any faults or...
Sketch Up Components – Sketchy Trees
Set of six sketchy trees for sketchup. These are 2D 'face me' components. The trees work really well with your sketch up model, making your sketch up exports look good right from the jump. Sketchy Trees - Sketch Up Components: buy buy Terms and Conditions of Use:These...
Sketch Challenge – Week 6 – The Final Week!
Master sketchers! You must be close to sketching mastery by now if you have kept up with the sketch a day challenge so far! Well done for sticking with it. For the final week, we are suggesting you go back over the sketches you have done and focus on the things you...
Free CAD Blocks – Bathroom Detail Mega Pack
Here is another set of cad blocks from the First In Architecture Cad Block database. We hope you find them useful. Please feel free to download them. We will endeavour to continue building our free autocad block library - if you have any suggestions for useful content...
Sketch Challenge – Week 5
Colour!! So now its time to get some colour in your life! So the task for this week is to start experimenting on bringing your sketches to life. Look at different colour styles: Muted pastel colours Bright Watercolour Pens Felt tips Pastels Pick out one accent colour...
Sketch Challenge – Week 4
So here we are at Week 4 of the sketch challenge. Hopefully by now you are really starting to gain a confidence in your sketching and feel that you can see an improvement. I hope you managed to master your perspective drawings, or if not - keep practicing! This week...
Tips for building on a sloped terrain
We recently had a question on our Facebook page that has since inspired this post. We were asked if we had any tips for building on a sloped terrain. So here goes: Cut and Fill: This describes the process of carving out a level plinth on a sloping site, in order to...
Sketch Challenge – Week 3
So here we are at week three. How have you been getting on with your sketching? By week three we will have done a fair few sketches by now - are you getting into the groove? This weeks task - "PERSPECTIVE" Only one task this week as it might take a few goes before...
Free CAD Blocks – Plants and Bushes 01
We hope you find our cad blocks useful. Please feel free to download them. We will endeavour to continue building our free autocad block library - if you have any suggestions for useful content please get in touch. This set of cad blocks consists of plants and bushes...
Sketch Challenge – Week 2
So here we are at week two. How have you been getting on with your sketching? I have to say, I've been finding it a bit of a struggle. The main issue I have is I find it hard to sketch for sketching sake. I need direction, I need a goal! So this week, I am giving us...
Sketch Challenge – Week 1
So, the challenge begins…. Image credit - Yann on FlickrQuestion: What exactly do you have to sketch? Answer: Anything and Everything! A sketch a day (more if you want to). Sketch your living room while you are watching TV. Sketch your TV. Sketch the street...