Angels in my Building

Well, I've started building my spaces and of course it's taking a very long time. With only 24 days left until the zombie apocalypse, I'm attempting to work on everything at once. I am using SketchUp with the Podium rendering plug-in. I've never used it, so right now I am building my smaller spaces and playing with the materials and lighting. Here's an example of my very first rendering of my library:

Not very successful. It looks like the skies opened up and the angels came into my building. 

*Cue angelic hymn*

I blame myself for trying to learn a new program on my senior project, but I'll learn ANYTHING to avoid using Adobe 3ds Max. That program and I do not get along. I'll keep playing with the lighting to get it just right, but at least I know where I am as far as ligting powers and light types. It will all come together - it always does!