Small Rear Garden

[Stu]

A small couryard area in inner Melbourne after a contemporary extention to a 100 YO house.

[majid]

nice render, and it'd be more realastic IMO if you keep a distance between ivy aand wall, maybe add some single leafs too, and some post pro on grass .

[tomsdesk]

Inviting space, Stu...really nice!

[Stu]

Thanks Tom and Majid,

The Ivy on the wall like that was never going to work 100%...I did try extruding it a bit but that didnt help too much.

Yes I was a bit lazy with the grass...Id better get cracking with Fletch's method

[Fletch]

for a quick, cost-effective visualization for a landscape client, I think it's golden the way it is!

There are better ivy plants (Solo's plant pack?) which you could combine with this one you've used, so that when they are seen together it could work well... but this quick method is, I imagine, clear enough to a client who is likely getting this image for very little cost to them.

[Stu]

Thanks Fletch......yes, Pete's stuff could combine well.
And another image, where I think the ivy works better with some planting obscuring the brick/ivy edges.
The brown rectangular structure is actually a water feature the client commissioned, made of copper ivy leaves that the water drips over and down.

[fymoro]

well done... I really like it ...

[Boofredlay]

Nice work STU.

[olishea]

Stu, nice details for the planting. I know ivy looks a little flat. so if you clone stamp some ivy in photoshop, then set a drop-shadow underneath it you can fake some depth.

I thought your images are a little dark so I had a play with the levels. see what you think, sorry about the artifacts-couldn't be avoided (hard to sharpen a low res image). i also added a little bit of blur to foreground yukka.

have you applied a material template to the brick? should have some slight reflection with such a sharp view angle, seems a little flat maybe?

[tomyong]

You really deserve the Garden Master's title
Good job

Rgds
Tom