Hi, Product Design Sketcher! Ready to develop your sketching skills and imagination? Today, I share with you a super easy sketching technique to draw your own products even if you are a beginner!For that, this technique will use the Cylinder as a...
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4 Steps to Master Drawing Skills: A Beginner’s Guide to Learn How to Learn That’s great! You decided to start learning how to draw. But you wonder how to draw anything you ever wanted? Naturally, you copy designers or artists you like, but it...
How to Draw Sections (on Spheres + Ellipsoids) When we love drawing, I believe we have the DNA of a geek. We got to learn plenty of sketching techniques, tips and tricks to be able to draw from our imagination. Today, I have prepared a very specific...
I receive messages from new readersabout “How they regretted stopping drawing”. Are you in that case too? We all have busy lives and it can be tough to find time or motivation to draw regularly. That’s why I wanted to share...
One of the first things I learned at my design school, as a beginner designer, is that presentation matters in Industrial Design.Yes, you have to convey your ideas by showing visually how a product works, how is it made, and how to use it… but...
Beginner tutorials
How to Draw Straight Lines (Freehand)
Do you draw clumsy sketches?A great way to improve fast is to work on the quality of lines. It all starts with drawing straight lines freehand. HOW TO DRAW STRAIGHT LINES FREEHAND Exercise 1: The ghost drawing Exercise 2: The constellation Exercise...
Sketching Tutorials
Line-Weight Basics: How to Draw Expressively with Lines in 3 steps
Expand your sketching ability by understanding how to use lines expressively! Learn this artful skill of line-weight that designers apply in all their drawings with my easy-to-follow guide. Unlock your creativity now! How to draw with line-weight...
Easy Steps to Learn Faster with Iterative Drawing in 4 steps
Most beginners struggle with sketching and ignore Iterative drawing.This is why some evolve faster and you wonder why. You absolutely need to learn drawing with the right designer mindset from start. How to Learn Faster with iterative drawing How...
Start a sketch with general shapes, then refine
Today a quick tutorial on how to make a head. TIP 58 Start a sketch with general shapes, then refine. Start by a circle and a symmetry axis to roughly visualise the head. Draw roughly the chin to give a general preview. Place the different elements...
Shoe Design
The Art of Sketching Sneakers: Unlock Your Design Creativity
The Art of Sketching Sneakers: Unlock Your Design Creativity In the beginning, it took me very long to figure out how to draw sneakers.I was trying to guess a miracle method through infinite trial and error. I remember how I could copy existing...
These days I am looking at some pictures of Evangelion. I love this mix of organic and machines. So I started to draw a shoe inspired by them – but trying to keep it simple. TIP 60 Photoshop > Start working with a huge canvas In Photoshop...
A fun exercice in Product Design is to draw a men and women version of a design. It’s a good way to be introduced into how to create a design language. You can look at your phone, your computer, your fridge, a bottle of water… and so on, and try to...
MOTIVATION BOOST | SCHOOL & CAREER
2 reasons why a mom encourages her son to become a designer
Today I would like to share with you an inspiring discussion I had. While many parents push their kids to become a Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer… I met a mom who support her son’s interest for drawing to become a Designer. But before sharing with you the...
Designer Interview
How to Start Design Sketching? (The BIG MISTAKE to avoid)
How to Start Design Sketching? | Q. from Omar 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...
Creativity
When we look for inspiration, we do our research from visual documents such as books, magazines, photography… How about sound, taste, smell… Should we also explore our other senses ? Definitely, yes. Nowadays an industrial designer doesn’t...