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LATEST ARTICLES
TIP 404 Start Drawing Young: 5 Tips to Boost Your Industrial Design Sketching as a Teenager
Start your Industrial Design journey young and unlock the secret to exponential growth in sketching skills! Discover fun ways to draw what you love, build creativity, and craft stories through your designs. Ready to ignite your passion and design like a pro? Let’s sketch your future together—it all begins here!
TIP 403 The 7 Habits Highly Effective Designer Should Know to Boost Productivity and Creativity
Feeling stuck in your design journey? The secret isn't just talent—it's mindset. Learn how the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People can help you reset limiting beliefs, boost creativity, and build unstoppable momentum in your design career. Ready for a breakthrough? Start reshaping your habits today and design your best life!
TIP 402 How to Draw & Frame Your Napkin Drawings for Home Decoration
Discover how to turn a simple coffee napkin into a creative canvas with fun sketching tips, ghost drawing techniques, and framing ideas to capture lighthearted memories in unique ways.
Inspiration & Trends
TIP 401 Inside a Designer’s Studio: Understanding Innovation | with Florian Auger
Have you ever thought about creating your own Design Studio? Today, we dive into an inspiring conversation between Chou-Tac Chung and Florian Auger. Discover practical advice for aspiring designers and entrepreneurs and gain insights into the creative process behind successful design studios.
TIP 400 What Every Beginner Should Know: The Real World of Interior Architecture | Pradnyaa Desai
Dive into the world of interior architecture with Pradnyaa Desai as she shares her creative journey, the importance of hand sketching, and valuable advice for beginners. Discover how culture, emotion, and daily practice shape her unique approach to design in this insightful interview.
TIP 398 The Future of Industrial Design: Sensory Design and the Power of All 5 Senses
Unlock the power of sensory design! Discover how engaging all five senses—sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell—can transform ordinary products into memorable, emotionally resonant experiences. Learn practical examples and tips to innovate your industrial design process.
Drawing Tutorials
TIP 399 “I CAN’T DRAW!”: How to Start Sketching Easy | 10000 Viewers Live Workshop in Tokyo! (With Chou-Tac)
Unlock your creativity and sketch like a pro with my Fast-Sketching Power Techniques series! In this guide, you’ll discover practical tips, mindset shifts, and unique exercises to help you sketch faster, communicate ideas clearly, and bring your product designs to life—even if you’re just starting out.
TIP 393 How to Draw Realistic Products with Grooves: Step-by-Step for Beginners
Want to make your product sketches look more realistic? Follow Chou-Tac Chung’s step-by-step tutorial and master drawing grooves with double lines, shading, and contours. Perfect for beginners, these simple techniques add realism and flair to your product designs in minutes.
TIP 389 How a Felt Pen Boosts Your Creativity for Designers on the Go
Ready to sketch anywhere? Felt pens offer thicker lines and quick shading, letting designers draw freely and rapidly. Chou-Tac Chung shares how felt pens inspire creativity even in busy settings like restaurants—perfect for urban sketchers and creative pros on the move.
DESIGNERS INSIGHTS
TIP 165 It’s Never Too Late: How Huang Switched from Civil Engineering to Design at 47
Meet Huang Li-Chung, who boldly transitioned from civil engineering to design at age 47. Huang shares how he rediscovered his love for sketching and overcame self-doubt to pursue his creative dreams.
ID SKETCHING TUTORIALS | BASICS
TIP 371 How to Draw a Sphere in 3 Seconds! (Product Designer Technique)
"How to Draw a Sphere like a Product Designer." I've prepared an innovative and super easy approach to sketching spheres in 3 Seconds!
TIP 369 How to Draw Straight Lines (Freehand)
Start the easy and practical approach on "How to Draw Straight Lines with Confidence as a Designer," to master this essential skill now!
TIP 357 How to Draw Contour Lines Easily: A Beginner’s Guide for Designers
Contour lines are a powerful tool for designers to visualize and communicate three-dimensional shapes fast. Discover tips and tricks to draw contour lines on boxes, organic forms, cylinders, and cones, boosting your design sketching skills and speed.
TIP 343 How to Draw 3D Objects from Imagination Using Basic Perspective
Discover how to bring your ideas to life by mastering 3D drawing from imagination using simple perspective methods. This tutorial invites aspiring designers to build foundational skills and unleash creative potential through step-by-step guidance.
TIP 328 Get the Wow Factor in ID Sketching: Control Line-Weight in 3 Steps!
Embrace the Wow: Control your line-weight, you'll transform your sketches from flat to fantastic, making them pop off the page with charisma.
TIP 323 How to Draw Ellipses (Freehand & Easy)
Struggling to draw smooth ellipses freehand? This tutorial breaks down common mistakes and offers 8 practical solutions like ghost drawing, whole-arm movement, and symmetry tips. Improve your industrial design sketches confidently and fast.
TIP 244 How to Draw in 3 dimensions with this Easy Perspective Technique!
Learn the “Move the Dot Technique” to easily master 2-point perspective and boost 3D sketching skills. This simple exercise uses geometry to turn basic shapes into detailed 3D forms. Practice with focus and repetition for faster, more precise product design sketches.
TIP 203 How to Draw the Round Edges for Realistic Products!
Leran an easy step-by-step method to draw round edges for any product. This tutorial will help you master realistic rounded corners and add a professional touch to your product design sketches!
TIP 178 How to Draw a Camera | GO PRO
Discover easy steps to sketch a GoPro Hero camera using ballpoint pen and 2-point perspective. Join Chou-Tac's design challenge to boost your drawing confidence and skills. Draw confidently, improve details, and learn how to capture digital camera shapes with style!
TIP 141 How to Make your Sketches more Real
How to make your sketches more real When you start learning how to draw as a beginner, you study and practice basic rules of perspective, line of geometry, and simple shapes such as square, circles… and so on. We are going to see something that will change your daily habit when you draw. At the end of the video, you will know how to make your...
TIP 139 How to Draw a Bottle Easily (Using Sketchbook Pro’s Symmetry Axis Tool)
Learn how to draw bottles easily in Sketchbook Pro using the symmetry axis tool with this step-by-step video tutorial. Perfect for product designers, this guide helps you create realistic and creative bottle sketches for your portfolio.
TIP 138 How to Start Drawing Anything in 4 Steps (The Random Product Technique)
Struggling with the blank page? Discover the 4-step Random Product Technique to boost your creativity and start drawing anything better by combining real-world details and imaginative shapes.
RANDOM TUTORIAL
TIP 48 | How to Use Live Postures to Enhance Your Product Design Sketching
During my first year of Product Design school,we had a quite particular class: Live Nude model sketch. I was browsing Instagram pictures. And I noticed the pictures of Suicide girls MX*. Girls from Mexico loving tatoos and who are just beautiful with a Polaroid feel. That’s how I started my sketches of the day. * The content is sensual and doesn’t deserve a Content warning. Provocative but safe. SUICIDE MX I found a roll of paper initially made for some office printers. I bought it to sketch on it a while ago. Good that I found it back :). That’s just perfect for the 365 Keep Sketching...