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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!
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!
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
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.
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.
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
“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.
How to Draw Realistic Products with “GROOVES” [Beginners]
Learn to draw grooves like a pro! This beginner-friendly tutorial teaches how to use double lines, contour, shading, and line weight to add grooves that make your product sketches look realistic and dynamic. Perfect for boosting depth, contrast, and creativity in design.
How a Felt Pen Boosts Your Creativity for Designers on the Go
Discover how sketching with a felt pen boosts creativity anywhere! Learn why designers love pens like the Papermate Flair for bold, expressive lines, fast doodles, and spontaneous ideas—on napkins, receipts, or coffee cups. Draw freely, stay playful, and improve your creative flow on the go.
DESIGNERS INSIGHTS
Never Give Up Following Your Dream as a Designer | by Vincent Vedie
Hey guys, Many of you told me it’s valuable to discover more about the profession of a Product designer – knowing more about the real life out there after your design school. Today, I am very happy to introduce you my friend, Vincent Védie. We are good friends and he has been my classmate for 4 years at CREAPOLE-ESDI in Paris. Vincent is determined, passionnate and he has a wonderful Zen attitude – that I believe makes him a great “observant of life”. Which I believe is an essential quality for a designer – as we take inspiration from people and...
ID SKETCHING TUTORIALS | BASICS
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!
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!
How to Draw Contour Lines Easily
We delve into contour lines, a crucial concept for budding designers. Discover how these imaginary lines enhance your understanding of 3D forms.
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.
Struggling to draw ellipses with precision and confidence? Let's conquer this common sketching challenge by beating the 5 Common Mistakes!
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.
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!
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!
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...
TIP139 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.
TIP138 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.
TIP127 Master Perspective: How to Spot Horizon and Converging Lines Easily
Want to improve your perspective drawing? This exercise helps you spot the horizon and converging lines in everyday scenes, turning observation into a natural skill. Practice anytime, anywhere, and unlock your ability to draw buildings and streets like a pro. Start training your eye today!
RANDOM TUTORIAL
How to succeed your drawings making ugly doodles!
Hey guys! How are you today? I just went back to my Calystehnic class. (Also called Street workout). It’s now resting time, and I take a “few” minute to write to you. TIP: Sketch in the rush!! The sketch below is what I drew just before going out 3 hours ago. I was in the rush. I didn’t want to be late for my class, but I also wanted to draw that camera so bad with my speed technique. So I sit, calm down and draw. Life’s tiny pleasure can’t wait, right? I didn’t expect I would draw that fast. I completed both within 5 minutes! I drew the first on the...