Architectural Illustration: Bring Design Concepts to Life
About Me
A course by JJ Zanetta , Architectural Illustrator
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson, I will share with you where I am from, a bit about my childhood, my love of architecture, and my career. ”
In this video lesson JJ Zanetta addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Architectural Illustration: Bring Design Concepts to Life. Explore the fundamentals of architectural illustration, from perspective drawing to 2D composition, and use them to render engaging design solutions in Procreate or by hand.
Partial transcription of the video
“About Me Hi, I'm JJ Zanetta. Welcome to my course. I'm an architectural illustrator. I work with developers, urban designers, and architects, and I help bring to life their vision. From a very young age, I've always enjoyed drawing. Particularly, I've always enjoyed drawing architecture for some reason. Pittsburgh is full of great buildings and interesting topography and it was a great place for me to learn how to draw. I had great people in my life who were pushing me in that direction and recognized my interest, but also my hard work and talent in the area and pushed me to pursue that. In...”
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Course summary for: Architectural Illustration: Bring Design Concepts to Life
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Category
Architecture & Spaces, Illustration -
Software
Procreate -
Areas
Architectural Illustration, Architecture, Digital Architecture, Drawing, Spatial Design, Traditional illustration

JJ Zanetta
A course by JJ Zanetta
JJ Zanetta is an architectural illustrator. He grew up in Pittsburgh and began drawing from a young age, recreating the illustrations he saw in books. In high school, JJ began pursuing his love for architecture by creating drawings inspired by his city. He later went on to study art education at Mercyhurst University and began his career as an architectural illustrator at Urban Design Associates in 2007 before going on to establish his own studio, Zanetta Illustration.
Since then, he has spent more than 10 years working for clients including architects, urban designers, landscape architects, developers, and municipalities. JJ has also won multiple awards from the American Society of Architectural Illustrators, among other organizations.
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