Architectural Illustration: Bring Design Concepts to Life

Drawing Exercises 2

A course by JJ Zanetta , Architectural Illustrator

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Audio: English, Spanish, Portuguese

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About the video: Drawing Exercises 2

Overview

“In this lesson, I will continue drawing trees to create the effect of perspective. In this case, I will teach you how to draw the background trees in order not to keep caught up in the details, and to focus more on the volume and less on all the activity in the foliage. ”

In this video lesson JJ Zanetta addresses the topic: Drawing Exercises 2, 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

“Let's move on to Our background tree, I'm just going to save these tree strokes to keep on the screen for us. What we need to avoid if you're using Procreate If you zoom so far in, you really don't know the difference between a mid-ground or a foreground tree, and a background tree. So we want to try and assume Some consistency. and how far in we're zooming and pinching into our tree. So let's just keep in mind and be cognizant of how far zoomed in we are I can really get caught up in the details. and make our background tree looked the same as our foreground tree, And that's not. the effec...”

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

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (41)
2982 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.