Had the chance to make more...

This is rather an old model... Yet I liked the result.

More and behind the scene images

@L-i-am ok, great.
Just modeled it for you
Please let me know if it needs modifications.

@pixelcruncher My pleasure to have my hands on such a charming piece of software. Considering my laptop is rather old, not supporting recent graphic cards and all the computation is done by the processor.
Here are more tries to discover the "coating" layer .

@L-i-am in all of the designs the concept has been to be in harmony with the context. Pebbles, Branches and river, flatness, etc...

I already have shared a few watercolor videos on youtube and I hope you find them handy. Here is one of them ( mute the sound plz):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd7VTDsX_N0

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@Mike-Amos This is the fine potential of RayScaper...only 7 percent of total progress...

Last one and a half months I have been busy applying and constantly job hunting living in Solln, Munich. Today I spared some time to make this.

@pixelcruncher it seems that the HDRI image is also pixly, so maybe adding an "upscaling" option to make low-res images, smooth, would be nicen

Over the years each time, I encountered a beautiful hand-drawn sketch, have tried to mimic it in Sketchup and here you will find some of them for free:
https://community.sketchucation.com/topic/164079/new-styles-by-majid
A sneak peek:

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سلام به همگی
طی این سالهاییکه با اسکچاپ کار میکردم هرموقع یه اسکیس دستی دیدم سعی کردم استایل اسکچاپیش رو درست کنم و به این ترتیب تعدادی استایل شخصی جمع شد.
سه تاش رو بصورت رایگان در این پست قرار دادم که امیدوارم خوشتون بیاد
معمولا به
Monochrome, Hidden line
و درحالیکه سایه روشنه بهترین جواب رو میگیرید.
همیشه هدف ارائه نهایی نبوده و خیلی وقتا اصلا ارائه دانشجویی یا هنری مد نظرم بوده...
لطفا سری بزنید به این پست
https://community.sketchucation.com/topic/164079/new-styles-by-majid/3

This set tends to hand-drawn sketching mood. More than 20 styles I have developed over years. Some precise and some very loose.
I hope you like them. I will share them all on the Shop.

16 Stright pen _ Sketchy blue background.zip

Here is another set, designed for conceptual presentation to ignite discussion or heavily artistic expression. Hereby I attach one and will share the set on the Shop.

Brown pen Stright lines and black charcoal Sky.zip

Over time I have developed and built up a set of styles for different presentation purposes.
While in the initial phases of design, we usually do not care about details or materials or we are in a hurry to rapidly prepare a decent presentation. I have developed a handful of sketchy styles based on a selection of the best sketches I have ever seen.

Here you will find one of them zipped and I will share more on the Shop section.
I hope you find them handy as well.

Construction Documentation Style on paper.zip

I spent some time finalizing and publishing a new short Skillshare course. This is after grand masters; James Fletcher-Watson and Edward Seago. I have tried to simplify and describe everything in detail:
https://www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/majid
https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/after-watercolor-masters-james-fletcher-watson-and-edward-seago/1694702972?via=search-layout-grid

I already have shared a few watercolor videos on youtube and I hope you find them handy. Here is one of them ( mute the sound plz):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd7VTDsX_N0

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@jscottsmith Very informative.
Do you use Blender3D for modeling?

Thanks, mates and dear Bep for sharing your thoughts and the link to the city archive. Amsterdam is an astounding miniature of sheer beauty and a lovely city full of architectural details to be discovered over a lifetime.
This is great I will benefit and I used to see some amazing drawings from the archive.
The postcards are not meant to be artistic or documentary. They are for a very helpful friend of mine who sells them to the city visitors ( https://www.fineartprints.nl/?srsltid=AfmBOorfvXMCOuFizu2hSoBIPPQRZ4jHzoSUkftRSBaOHGgtffN-DK4P). So I have to make them cheap in less time...Also some repetitive elements such as goblestones, canals, bridges, a bicycle, city lamps and boats must be included and all in all not bigger than A5 paper size, mainly A6!
I have to make many and not two the same... By the way an enjoyable thing to do.

@ntxdave ah, thanks mate for your warm welcome. I have been dead busy doing jobs, not having the chance to meet you here (virtually)