Architectural Illustration: Bring Design Concepts to Life
Drawing Exercises 1
A course by JJ Zanetta , Architectural Illustrator
About the video: Drawing Exercises 1
Overview
“It's time for you to complete a few drawing exercises that I think will be helpful to help you understand how to edit out your line work, what is the appropriate amount of detail, and just how we address objects in the foreground, mid-ground, and background. The first exercise will be drawing windows which are very important and can be very difficult to draw. In the next exercise, you will practice drawing trees. Trees are extremely important in all of our compositions because they add a sense of shade and life to our images. ”
In this video lesson JJ Zanetta addresses the topic: Drawing Exercises 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
“Drawing Exercises Now that we've completed our preliminary drawing, in this lesson, we will go through a few drawing exercises in preparation for our final line drawing. The reason that we've broken this process up into different steps is so that we can focus on what's important for each step. The thumbnail was about getting the basic composition. The preliminary drawing was thinking about design and getting those elements we want to incorporate and expanding on those a bit. In the final line drawing, we will focus on our drawing technique. As we have all the other details figured out, all ...”
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Course summary for: Architectural Illustration: Bring Design Concepts to Life
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Architecture & Spaces, Illustration -
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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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