Month: December 2017

How to Start Design Sketching? (The BIG MISTAKE to avoid)

How to Start Design Sketching? (The BIG MISTAKE to avoid) Hi sketching lovers! Do you start design sketching? Today I want to answer a question that I got from Omar on Instagram, who wants to know how to get started in design sketching. This is a very common question that I get a lot, and I’m happy to share some tips and insights with you. Plus, I’ll reveal the one big mistake that many beginners make that slows down their progress as product designers. So, Omar is interested in...

Perspective becomes easy (Drawing 3d planes)

Chou-Tac

Gain speed in drawing by starting your sketch with a 3D plane

Before starting, if you are making your first steps in perspective, I invite you to download the Designer Starter Kit made for beginners.

Then, practice these two easy tutorials on Perspective below:

1-point perspective drawing tutorial

2-point perspective drawing tutorial

9 tips to draw a power bank using a cylinder base

9 Sketching Tips for Beginners Drawing a Power Bank (with Vietdong)

Chou-Tac

Hello Sketcher! Today I am in London visiting my friends and student: Vietdong, He is one of my new beginner student of Sketch Like The Pros. We are going to do a quick demo giving you 9 sketching tips for beginners, drawing a Power bank. :) Transcript Okay. So I’m with VietDong in London, we are going to try, so we start with the main shape. Yeah. So I turn the paper when I draw. This is an axis, top of a doodle. Start with the ellipses. The second ellipses got done. And on the paper, I...

How to Go from Flat Sketches to 3D Volumes

Chou-Tac

I received a message from Christopher. He’s a woodworker and is fed up making drawings as “if somebody sits on them”.I made a beginner video about:How to Go from Flat Sketches to 3D Volumes! How to Go from Flat Sketches to 3D Volumes Take a pen, some paper, and take some notes! ✏️Next week, I will prepare some product design tutorials for you. And you, do you also feel your sketches are flat like a pancake 🥞 ? Cheers, Chou-Tac PS: Feel...

How to Draw an Infinity of Products (with ellipses and cylinders)

Chou-Tac

How to Draw an Infinity of Products (with ellipses and cylinders) Transcript below Hey guys Welcome to the “Sketching Mini-Tutos”! Sketching from Chouchou from me, Chou-Tac. So how to draw an infinity of products using ellipses and cylinders. Alright, we are going to draw some quick doodles right here to see what we can draw. So here are the basics: one axis, two ellipses and you connect. Then this is a PRINGLES box. Do you know Pringles? These chips that you can eat in the cylinder...

How about Vlogging for the Design Sketchbook ? :)

Chou-Tac

Hello !! It’s Chouchou, :) I hope you had a great week-end plenty of fun ! 2018 is coming already, I started to plan the next year projects for The Design Sketchbook ! I am happy to say I am preparing more videos, more tutorials, designer interviews from around the world ! (Such as with Dwayne Vance, former designer for Hot Wheels in US!) And I got also something SPECIAL for you : My very first VLOG video ! Ohoh !! You know what ? I don’t know much (yet) about how to make Vlog...

The big mistake we all do during a design job interview.

Chou-Tac

Hello guys, As a designer we learn how to promote our projects. We put a lot of effort in our portfolio, but sometime we face difficulties to promote ourself for a job or internship interview. Too many junior fail at doing that following mistake during an interview, which is fortunately easy to solve. To illustrate this, let me introduce my friend’s morning story My friend Nico is the young owner of DABLEND, which is the friendliest Hostel in Ho Chi Minh to me ! And where Nico is now...

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