Making A Digital Watercolor Presentation: Sketchup Tutorial (NPR Style)
One of the fastest way and effective solution for design presentation is
rendering your 3-D work(s) through Digital Watercolor style. This particular visualization can
be categorized under Non-photo-realistic rendering (NPR) style, which differs
from Photo realistic rendering. Technically, photo-realistic rendering aims to
reconstruct realism using different render-engine software. In contrast, NPR style
aims to present a more imaginative visualization of the actual scene. Here in
this tutorial, I will present step-by-step procedures on how to make digital watercolor visualization
using Sketchup, Fotosketcher, Photoshop and Picasa.
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STEP 3. For the main scene, set your SketchUp models to monochrome style
with shadows turned on. Under the edge style option check the edges, profiles,
depth cue and extensions.
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STEP 4. Export the first group model(s). To do that, go to File>
Export> 2D Graphic and save in JPEG format.
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Here is the result
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STEP 5. Hide the selected model (main scene). To do that, select all>
hold shift and click the entourage group> right click on the main model>
select hide.
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STEP 6. For the entourage, Set-up your SketchUp model with
default styles such as shaded with textures and edges. Disable the shadows.
Export the second group model into 2D image.
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Here is the result
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STEP 7. Open all the exported images in Photoshop> set the blend mode
to multiply> adjust the opacity with (80-90% value)
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Groundcover (watercolor)
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Flowers (watercolor)
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Shrubs (watercolor)
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Flag
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Watercolor Textured Paper
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Here is the result
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Here is the result
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STEP 10. Again, using the Photoshop, open the last edited image and the
watercolor texture paper. Set the blend mode to multiply. Adjust the opacity with
70-80% value. Save image in JPEG format.
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Final Render Output
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Thank you for reading. I hope you can use this technique (NPR style
watercolor rendering) for your future projects and presentation.
this is great! awesome tutorial and thank you for the images.
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