Hand & CAD - The Wireframe Years - 3
I constructed perspectives by hand until I got my first CAD capable computer early in 1990. I started playing during my free time with wireframes and learning the AutoCad system. I very quickly tried to model an Idea I had for the north end of Times Square. The first hand sketches I did for the project are lost, but the following images show the rest of the process, from the point I started to model in the computer. As I viewed the model from different angles, I made revisions by hand. Using a rough wireframe model, it was easy to try on different elements, such as this radiating “crown” cornice. As the model progressed, I added a little pencil shading to help pick out the massing. A too small element could be easily resized… … and checked out from all angles. As the design finally began to coalesce, I started adding shade and shadow to views. Adding new ideas… …and details as I went. This building was for Times Square, so the jazzier the sign opportunities the better. Once I’d develo...