Tutorial - Illustrating your 3D models

People often ask me how I use sketchup the way I do and im always quite happy to write up tutorials and post them up. Everything I have learnt for 2D/3D and web design has either been self taught, tutorials, DVD’s and books.

Here is a tutorial using for sketchup and and 2D image manipulation software (Ive used photoshop but they are all pretty similar, GIMP is a free alternative I think). Before I had any render software I would cheat and paint over my models in Photoshop, here is my method.