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LATEST ARTICLES
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
How to Become a Toy Designer | HOT WHEELS | by Dwayne Vance
CALL JAPAN/USA: Dive into the world of toy design with Dwayne Vance, a seasoned designer known for his work on Hot Wheels.
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...
How to Draw a Bottle Easily (Product Design)
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.
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.
Cast Shadow | Parallel source of light from the Sun
To make your sketch pop out from the background, it’s essential to add a Cast shadow. The “cast shadow” projects the shadow of an object on a surface (basically the ground surface). I basically use 2 methods at drawing the cast shadow: the Parallel source of light (Example: The sun) the Diverging source of light (Example: A torch light)...
RANDOM TUTORIAL
I have spent 2 days at Johor Bahru in Malaysia. One of the main street was under renovation using huge machines that I have never seen before. I came closer and I met Amp, the “pilot” of this engine. He kindly allowed me to take some pictures. So I took a lot of them ! Amp was super nice, showing me roughly how he manipulate the machine. Most of us carry a mobile phone with a camera included. I recommend to take in picture whatever you feel cool, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME. Even a texture, a pattern, graphics, you may want to keep. Keep in mind that you may import them in Photoshop for rendering some...