Sep 17
The anatomy of water purification
2006 at 01.07 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
Thought I add some diversity to the mix and post something that has more to do with real life instead of art… For a few years now I have been creating 2D and 3D drawings for my client Boralit. Boralit is specialized in water purification systems. I used to illustrate their products in watercolor way back, but then Adobe Illustrator replaced this technique.
Illustrator gives me much more flexibility and I can do a much more precise job. These water purification products evolve all the time and varies in different situations so these drawings need constantly updating.
Up until now I have drawn about 7 or 8 variations of a 3D drawing containing a house that shows how one of their systems works. Each drawing has another configuration. Believe me when I say that I have drawn a lot of pipes and tanks over the years :)
The illustration above shows one of the variations of the 3D house illustration. I usually start from pictures of products from the client together with some 2D technical schematics. The rest of the info is actually sketched on paper to show me where the pipes should come.
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I agree with you Veerle, Illustrator is way comfortable. You are GREAT doing what you enjoy.
Very clean work!!
saludos! Gracias ser tan amable.
abrazo,
-Marjorie Ann
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What if you draw this in Studio 3D Max? Wouldn’t it be a lot easier?
You take the technical files of your client, you build them up, you give texture,…
Once done you can view your drawing from every possible angle, zoom in,…
And if you want, you can export this to vectors and give the whole thing a more illustrator look.
If something changes, things are adjusted a lot faster.
I like the drawing but I am just thinking about efficiancy and productivity.
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nice work!
I like very much the combination of art and technologie.
all the best!
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im lucky to find your blog Veerle..keep up the good work..
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Very interesting work. I’m jealous. I’d love to draw these all day long.
I originally started as a computer-aided drafter back in high school. CAD had creativity limitations, though, so i moved on to illustration and computer graphics.
I’m staring at your drawings thinking at all of the cool copy and paste and patterns and isometrics and… well, you get the picture. Very cool. Keep it up!
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i like your site a lot veerle! it has been inspirational and fun! i already bookmarked this site so that i can refer to it in times when i get uninspired! you do great work in all you do ... haha! thanks!
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You have a REAL organizational sense..The commercial work you do and the this blog are itself are so well figured out into details of interest and ease to see..
NICE work..
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i’m impressed when i see this blog and your works, i would to do this
greetings from spain, adios
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Awesome!!!!!! Excellent!!!
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Only Veerle could make water purification *so sexy*. Very very nice work Veerle :-)
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