Office building

kevsterman

Fantastic Stinkie. Look forward to seeing more.

So you are doing these in your spare time in order to sell them on then?

Stinkie

Fantastic Stinkie. Look forward to seeing more.

So you are doing these in your spare time in order to sell them on then?

Nope - I'm out of work (which, trust me, is not as bad as it sounds ), so I can spend virtually all my time on these. Good thing too, as I am a fairly sloppy and therefore slow modeler.

As for selling these, that might work out, or it might not. Main thing is I get to do what I like the most. I haven't really done anything substantial since I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts nine years ago - I promised myself I would not let it become a decade.

I wish I'd heard of modeling and rendering earlier (I've never been into computers much).

remus

@unknownuser said:

These are not one-offs. Not sure yet how I'm sell these yet (yes, I am planning on selling them - but not just yet). Probably through a gallery - if any of them'll want me (and I'd better be picky, too). Not even quite sure yet how much I'll ask for them. I'm certainly not going any lower than € 700. (Keep in mind that gallerists take 50%, some even 75%.)

Better start saving then

Edson

very good, stinkie. this is what i would call a crisp picture. let us see more of similar work.

lewiswadsworth

@unknownuser said:

@kevsterman said:

I promised myself I would not let it become a decade.

I did...it becomes harder and harder to get people to take one and one's art degree seriously, the longer one coasts on it. After 11 years I couldn't stand it and I went and got a grad degree in architecture.

This is very interesting, stinkie (can you give us a real name, sometime?). There's a kind of an exacting minimalism...almost grim and reinforced by the gray color scheme...that suits the High Modern subject matter very well...and yet you're marketing it not as architectural visualization but as an art object unto itself.

I would be tempted to fill the image a bit more and crop it around the structures...but then, you might lose the implied assertion that this building was conceived of as an object alone, as opposed to part of an environmental and built context (one of the sins of which High Modern architects are now often accused).

Stinkie

@lewiswadsworth said:

@unknownuser said:

@kevsterman said:

I promised myself I would not let it become a decade.

I did...it becomes harder and harder to get people to take one and one's art degree seriously, the longer one coasts on it. After 11 years I couldn't stand it and I went and got a grad degree in architecture.

I actually contemplated doing that myself about two years ago. Studying architecture, I mean. In retrospect, I'm glad I didn't, as I'm not all that interested in architecture. It's the artistic appropriation of it's vocabulary and means that I'm interested in.

@lewiswadsworth said:

This is very interesting, stinkie (can you give us a real name, sometime?). There's a kind of an exacting minimalism...almost grim and reinforced by the gray color scheme...that suits the High Modern subject matter very well...and yet you're marketing it not as architectural visualization but as an art object unto itself.

My name is Tom. And as for the grimness - I'm a fairly gloomy person.

As for marketing this kind of thing as art, I'm surprised there's not heaps of people doing the same. There's a long and fruitful tradition of artists borrowing from architecture. (De Chirico, Gregor Schneider, Manfred Pernice, Jockum Nordström, Toba Khedoori - to name but a few.), and modeling/rendering's a fantastic medium for an artist. (I wish I'd discovered it earlier, as I've known for quite a bit what I wanted to do.)

Modernism ... there's a sense of ideals lost and promises not quite fulfilled about (some) modernist building that I find quite appealling - and worth mining. Look at pictures of Brasilia, and tell me they don't render you pensive and melancholic.

@lewiswadsworth said:

I would be tempted to fill the image a bit more and crop it around the structures...but then, you might lose the implied assertion that this building was conceived of as an object alone, as opposed to part of an environmental and built context (one of the sins of which High Modern architects are now often accused).

There was in fact more in the image at first. Didn't work - or at least not in the way I wanted it to. Cropping around the structures - wouldn't that mean you'd ignore the negative space? Doesn't seam like a good idea, in this case.

Stinkie

Model needs tweaking. Word of advice: it is generally best to get your models right before you let them render for 40 hrs. Stinkie hits himself in the head while cursing loudly in Dutch: "Dom stuk vreten!"

nomeradona

wow thats really big. one of the huge render image i have seen

kevsterman

Which programme did you use to render them?

Stinkie

I used Maxwell.

kwistenbiebel

I like it Stinkerd!

I wouldn't make the remark, but since you seem to aim for purism, the composition might be improved some more. (I am picking on a detail here ).
With all the orthogonality going on, I even would expect a full frontal (no, not nude ) view with only horizontals and verticals.

Stinkie

Not a detail, KB. Fairly important in this case. So thanks for the comment. I was in fact planning on choosing another composition, but not a "full frontal" one. More along these lines (quick V-Ray render; did some additional work on model too):

Oh yeah: I printed the first image I posted in this thread on photographic paper (cropped somewhat differently, though). Looks fantastic (errr ... in my opinion). Can't wait to have it printed at full-scale.

Stinkie

Stinkie

I call this one "Lick My Grain". That, or "Kompozition nr. 12". No, wait! The title is "I've Always Hated Franz Kline For Having Already Done Something I Wanted To Do". Hell ... I'll just go with "No Title". Or, possibly, with "My Meatloaf Is Good Meatloaf". Choices, choices.

This is not the final image. Cooking other version.