(scraps folder)
Long ago, I was introduced to the idea of using SketchUp for drawing backdrops that could be moved around in 3D to suit various indoor scenes (by way of  refleximage using it to make backdrops for his Lily Blue comic). The upshot being that in the case of comics, one could make a variety of camera angles in a single room and only have to draw in the characters for each scene. Well, I never got around to that use case, but occasionally I find myself digging SketchUp out of the realm of seldom-used software to make an outdoor backdrop, such as this one for an image due to appear in my main gallery in the near future. I figured I'd drop this one into scraps as someone is likely to find it interesting. I don't pretend to be any good with SketchUp, there is a ton of stuff it can do that I haven't learned yet because I use it so infrequently. The last backdrop I made with this was 2017's "Incursion".

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Technical:
I provided three views of this corner storefront, drawn entirely in Sketchup without the benefit of any pre-made models to populate it. For the pedestrian signals on the pole, I was going to use a model imported from the program's online repository of 3D models, even going so far as to download one, but elected to make my own, drawing a box, pulling it into a cube, drawing a square on one of the faces and pushing it in to form a recess for the display, then drawing quarter circles on that face and pushing them off the model to round off the edges. I finished off this model-within-a-model by drawing a rectangle on the side and pulling it out to form a stand-off, before wrestling it into place on the side of the pole--I'm not well-versed with moving objects around in 3D space within SketchUp (or any other 3D modeling application for that matter) but I eventually got it into place, then cloned it, rotated the copy and stuck on the other side of the pole.

The door handles on the storefront were another jury-rigged operation, drawing small circles on the door frame and pulling them out to make the mounts that the handle would rest on, but I couldn't figure out how to make the handles in-place, so I made another cylinder on the floor, selected and dragged the resulting shape up in front of the door so it looked like a handle, then cloned it and wrestled the copy into place on the adjacent door.

Digital 3D models drawn in SketchUp 2017 (the latest free version is just a web-browser application), composited exported images with Micrografx Picture Publisher 10