Architectural Illustration: Bring Design Concepts to Life

Preliminary Drawing 1

A course by JJ Zanetta , Architectural Illustrator

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Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: Preliminary Drawing 1

Overview

“Now I will create our preliminary drawing. Focusing on sketching out our design proposal, I also must be sure to focus on drawing to scale and in perspective. Different design ideas can also be tested during this step. ”

In this video lesson JJ Zanetta addresses the topic: Preliminary Drawing 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

“Preliminary Drawing Now that we have our thumbnail drawings, we'll move forward with creating a preliminary drawing in this lesson. After comparing our three completed thumbnail sketches, I have decided to move forward with this image. I believe it gives us the best argument and most compelling visual to make that argument. From here, we'll take some of the rough ideas we've sketched and started to formulate, add a layer and refine them a bit, and incorporate some architecture, research, some urban design, and incorporate those elements. Start to add and put some meat on the bones of our th...”

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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.