Merry Christmas yall!
Playing with Blender 3D to learn better modeling and texture painting and rendering using Rayscaper!

I do some 25*35 cm watercolors in intervals, whenever I can spare some time. Mainly focused on old Tehran (Qajar era), based on BW photos.

Here is one of them with the details:

I know it is odd to design a facade apart from the plan/building but it has become a norm here. recently I had a facade design suggestion and here is the result.
Changes on the 1st floor has been due to the client.
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Had the chance to make more...

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

And here is another shot from the Grand Hotel.
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here is a detail from the painting.

Meydan-e Masgh (Soldiers' drill arena), Tehran, Qajar era.

Another watercolor from the Netherlands, old Eindhoven.
Cafe Central, TRAMHALL ( as I read)

More and behind the scene images

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

@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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I was born in a small and beautiful mountainous town called Borujen. At that time it was a lovely and privileged cozy city with beautiful houses and entrance gates that rarely you may find them now.
This one, amongst a few, has remained despite damages and must be as old as the WWI era. (Unfortunately, the porcelain plate indicating the construction date is missing.) They used to be on the gate's top middle, where you now witness a niche.
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/335b7872-d7cb-41d1-991b-2b36d5a44e81/A-gate-in-Borujen

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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More 2D and 3D examples:

You can see the form-generation rules such as rotation, repetition, overlapping, mirroring, resembling, etc.. here.

I received an email declaring that I am included in the Honorable mention group, not really bad for a solo runner facing so many challenges, It is somehow rewarding

Nowadays, the economic issues are really tough. By the way, this is life.. nothing to complain.
We also sat about a one-day urban sketching event (I and 9 fellow architects in cooperation with the edifice management, (under the local municipality). 75 participants, in 5 groups...
This is me in a dark red t-shirt:

My friend's sketch:

The whole crowd:

Judging process, discussing every single piece of art-work:

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Student entries:

My work:

@tuna1957 This is another shot. I reduced the environment power so that we can see it is blue, then added another blue color directional light to compensate for it. this is an experiment yet not final.