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
3 techniques to give visual impact to your sketches | The Design Sketchbook Show! #1
Hi guys, Today I am in Seoul, Korea ! It’s amazing and also super cold here. About -7 degrees outside. Ohoh ! Getting warmer back in my room, I thought it would be cool to publish the replay of our Design Sketchbook Show here in the blog ! In...
How to draw a sphere (with the XYZ axis)
HOW TO DRAW A SPHERE NOTE: We saw previously how to draw a circle in perspective. (Which is represented by an ellipse drawing.) Sphere drawing Today’s tutorial, we see how to draw a sphere in a simple way using the XYZ axis. Before starting...
Boost your ideas (drawing Sony earphone with the Doodle-Storm technique!)
We all know about Brainstorming. I was thinking about using this creative drawing session with the “Doodle-Storm” technique. Try, and send me yours by email at choutac@thedesignsketchbook.com! It’s a real pleasure to get absorbed by the “Doodle...
Shoe Design
I am following a cool page about Footwear design on Instagram: @PaletteStudioCo Credit featured image on the home page from Rob Maston or @raw_mass @PaletteStudioCo on Instagram It showcased amazing works of pro, beginner or passionate of footwear...
Today I’ve just get a set of 30 twin markers. The brand is TOUCHLIIT. My friend gave me a warm recommendation of them. Let’s try them! The sketches are done with the thick tip only. Unfortunately I didn’t get the “Layout...
Sketching is not a hobby, it’s a passion |TIP73
Today, I felt like a kid in a toy shop at Tokyu Hands. It’s a Japanese store that sell all kind of house ware, cosmetics, traveller, decoration, and hundreds of cool “useless stuff”. They have just opened, and I discovered a huge corner for pens and...
MOTIVATION BOOST | SCHOOL & CAREER
I was sketching some buildings of Penang, A family stopped by and congratulate me on that drawing. It is always touching. Then a local men whose name is Joo, sat beside me. He asked me for how many years do I draw such illustrations. I told him that...
Designer Interview
Don’t focus on the result but on your drawing journey! – Roy Pallas
I wanna share with you a motivational TIP I learned from my friend Roy Pallas, from the French blog: Blog-le-dessin.com. (blog-the-drawing) I knew his blog before I met him in person. I am happy to say that his blog is full of generosity and...
Creativity
How to Draw New Forms (Fast and Easy) in 10 steps
Do you end drawing always the same thing? You can’t figure out how to draw new forms? The good news is that anyone can learn to become creative.I believe you might also face these creative blocks as a designer enthusiast: You can’t draw...