About 

Christo Kleinhans is a Freelance Illustrator with 30 years of experience in Urban Planning, Architectural Illustrating, Visualising and Graphical Art.

Successful Urban Planning - and Architectural Illustrating is the unique result of combining Urban Planning ideas and proposals and vast Architectural knowledge with artistic flair. Without the knowledge of relevant town planning and architectural design principals as well as well developed artistic skills it is just not possible.

Christo Kleinhans specializes in combining traditional drawing and digital illustration techniques to produce top quality renderings for the full spectrum of architecture.



​What Does an Architectural Illustrator Do?

Firstly Architectural Illustrator is a highly specialized artist capable to communicate designs and concepts for anyone to understand. An Architectural Illustrator renders the designs from which architects and clients can better visualize architectural projects. Architectural Illustrator communicate the architect's ideas to clients and is well-versed in all aspects of design and composition.



Significance

An Architectural Illustrator performs the important task of visualizing the architect's ideas for a design project. An illustrator not only sketches the imagery, but also accurately renders a composition that highlights the scope, scale, size and dimensions of these projects. The architectural illustrator is, in many ways, like a storyboard artist: he or she determines not only what the project should look like but provide information about materials to be used before construction begins. He or she is the first link between an abstract idea and a fully rendered project. 

Function

Architectural Illustration is a form of communication. Architects are commissioned by clients, owners, committees, customers and the general public to build architectural projects, from residential homes to commercial buildings or renovation projects. Since the architect is working with design ideas that are largely collaborative, it's important for him or her to articulate those ideas to his or her clients. Architectural illustrators provide an important tool to open up streams of communication between architect and client, and reduce misunderstandings. 



Features

Architectural Illustrators do more than simply provide sketches of interior residential homes, commercial buildings, or renovation projects. They also include the shape and scale of the architectural designs. Other designs, such as shade, shadow, lighting compositions, floor designs, interior and exterior compositions, hue, saturation, value, color palette, are also significant features in an architectural design. Architectural Illustrators must be well-informed of these varying architectural designs in order to be completely accurate in his or her renderings.