Architectural Illustration: Bring Design Concepts to Life

Designing and Drawing Your Concept 1

A course by JJ Zanetta , Architectural Illustrator

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2,948 students

Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: Designing and Drawing Your Concept 1

Overview

“This lesson encompasses designing through sketching anything that would be considered the “built environment. The objective in this lesson is to sketch your ideas and get them on paper. They need to be “accurate,” but not detailed. Focus on the idea, not the technique of the drawing. ”

In this video lesson JJ Zanetta addresses the topic: Designing and Drawing Your Concept 1, 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

“Designing and Drawing Your Concept In this lesson, we will be designing our concept. We will take a look at our site on Google Earth, and sketch out a few rough ideas that we've begun to formulate after doing our due diligence like the community insight, talking with business owners, formulating some of our own thoughts, and getting them on paper. Here we are with our site once again. We can remember back to when we measured this, we have about 320 ft across, and 160 ft going the other way. This is plenty of room to work with. My idea for the space is to create a place to have some kind of ...”

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Course summary for: Architectural Illustration: Bring Design Concepts to Life

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (40)
2948 students
5 units
18 lessons (3h 49m)
16 downloads

Category
Architecture & Spaces, Illustration
Software
Procreate
Areas
Architectural Illustration, Architecture, Digital Architecture, Drawing, Spatial Design, Traditional illustration

JJ Zanetta

A course by JJ Zanetta

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Architectural Illustrator

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.