Archive - January 2019

36 Sneaker Sketching TIPS | 7m. Drawing Challenge!

To make sure you receive news on the launch of the Sneaker Sketching course, make sure to Register to the blog! :) It took me 10 hours and 30 minutes of sketching to complete the 7-meter canvas in 4 days.   It’s an amazing experience I recommend you to do once in a while to sit, focus, and enjoy drawing like doing meditation.   And I wanted to take this opportunity to record the whole session for you guys. I saw a chance to extract from it plenty of sketching...

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How to make big progress with Sketching Challenge ?

Hello ! It’s Chou-Tac, It’s 11am here in France. And before going to gym, I wanted to announce that this week: I am starting a 7 meters of “Sneaker Sketching Challenge” !  Yes ! it is about 4 times my height ! Ohoh !! (I am 1,80m) A while ago I even did a 18 meters roll of Concept Art Sketching Challenge in 7 days ! Uhuh !! It was pretty intensive for me! (See picture below) Today I decided to do it again with a New Challenge on SNEAKERS. (My guilty pleasure I sketch...

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A simple trick to draw sneakers more real

Hello Design Sketchers! Last year I met Amor Jiménez in Madrid. :) I met him in real while eating croquetas in his home country! We were sketching on the coffee shop table with Antonio and Pedro Luis. We all have in common the passion for design and Sneaker sketching too. I even made a Live sneaker sketching demo to explain the steps to draw a shoe. Recently, I saw a sketch of a shoe from Amor Jiménez on his Instagram. I noticed a common mistake I did a lot myself when I started sketching...

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Hello! I'm Chou-Tac, a Product Designer from France.

If the sketching methods I’ve acquired aid me in my life and in my industrial design career, I believe that they can also help you reach your dream goal as a student or professional designer.

Leave a comment in the blog or send me an email at choutac@thedesignsketchbook.com : )

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