Right guys, this is the last vector illustrator I will be reviewing. Hope I haven't bored you too much!
Quite unanimously, it seems that successful architectural illustrations should contrast black and white with colour. The choice of shade or texture inclusion on the other hand seems to differ. I like how Barker has included detailed texture on the coloured portion of the illustration; however for me, it makes the image far too realistic to seem imaginative and energetic in my opinion.
This emotion is emphasised for me by how the white parts have a lot of detail as well, I don't think the contrast is as successful if the detail is a constant throughout... as Birkey and Kugler varied amounts of detail in their work.
The same effect is used by Barker here. It does give the illustration depth; however it doesn't seem to have life. This could be due to the realistic textures and heavy amount of detail throughout the images.
Of course, some of you will probably disagree with me, which is fine! This particular style doesn't particularly excite me unfortunately. Anyway, this about wraps up the vector illustration section.
Apologies for the mass of architecture... it's what we're doing on our project at the moment so I thought it would be useful!
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