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
Unlock Your Creative Potential with the LEGO Block Technique
No more doubt about how to start your sketches.Today, I decompose my sketching tutorials into bite-size steps. You learn the “Lego Block Technique” It is essential to learn how to draw with simple techniques to progress fast and draw...
How to Draw New Ideas (with the Random Product Technique)
Do you have trouble coming up with new ideas for your product designs? This beginner’s guide discusses how to use the Random Product Technique to draw unlimited random ideas! Bonus: Light & Shadow tutorial with Photoshop at the end...
How to Draw Contour Lines
Today let’s see how to draw contour lines. Your first steps, the easy way!With this simple technique, you will draw any volume super fast. Your speed of sketching is essential for a designer to develop his ideas smoothly and communicate them...
Shoe Design
How to Engage your Audience with Dynamic Sketches
David Zakarias-Weich asked me on the Design Sketchbook’s Facebook page about how I presented my sketches. I share how important it is to engage your audience with Dynamic sketches. It could be for an oral presentation, or for your portfolio, your...
Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Specs When Buying a Drawing Digital Tablet
When I saw the Samsung Note Pro 12.2, I couldn’t resist drawing something on it. (See at the bottom of this page) The tablet carries a customized version of Sketchbook pro. TIP 21 | To get a digital tablet, do not believe the specs My first tablet...
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...
MOTIVATION BOOST | SCHOOL & CAREER
Are you looking for ways to increase your efficiency as a designer? Try these easy tips to help you disconnect, stay focused, and avoid procrastination. 5 TIPS to Disconnect… Stop Procrastination as a Designer Beware of Social Distraction. TIP...
Designer Interview
How a Custom-Made Furniture Designer Works (with Guillaume Bouvet)
Today we meet Guillaume Bouvet in Lyon, France.He shares with us how a Custom-Made Furniture Designer works with wood.He will give us an essential lesson for any industrial designer. If you love working with wood and designing furniture, you might...
Creativity
Yesterday, one of my students asked me: I am doing mistakes. Is it my fault? I answered telling him a story about “The cycling boy” Do you mind I share it with you as well? : ) | Do you remember the first day you tried to ride a bike...