In spring 2022, I was brought in to help pre-vis a new event space housed in a decommissioned and converted church.
The creators needed marketing and visuals to aid in booking The Palomar Event Space for the 2023 wedding season. These facilities are booked well in advance - but the construction was far from completed at the time of the 2022 bridal and wedding events which are crucial to the marketing of a space such as this.
The architectural firm was also behind schedule and had provided no useful renders or pre-visualizations of the space.
Final illustration of facade
Promotional swag tote bag with illustration
The initial street facade illustration was needed for various swag (printed tote bags, etc.) at the different events. This was drawn from several reference photos - specifically, a few pulled from Google street view. Nothing was available that matched a desirable "Hero shot" of the building, so the drawing is a composite.
Google Street View references
Google Street View references
Google Street View references
The more detailed drawings of the interior and exterior garden space were more complex.
In both cases, I started with reference photos, and proceeded from there. I created 3D mock-ups to aid in perspective. The desire was for a more hand-made feel to the illustrations, and the budget didn't allow for a highly detailed, photo-realistic 3D rendering.
Final garden space illustration
Mood board from client
Rough over-head sketch to clarify positioning
Stages of render
Final main hall illustration
A much simpler interior illustration was needed for one of the restrooms.
Finally, the architectural firm did produce some 3D renders in the fall of 2022 - but they were undesirable in many ways so I was asked to make slight adjustments to those.
Render 1 from architect - strange green uplights and greenish, cold cast to image
Adjusted render 1 - pink uplights, warm glow on gold/chandeliers
Render 2 from architect - strange green uplights and greenish, cold cast to image
