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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
TIP 225 BAKER’S DESIGN: “Drawing with Shame is Better Than Not Drawing at All” – Kim from Seoul
Discover how sketching—even if you feel ashamed of your drawings—can spark creativity and drive innovation. Learn from Kim, a baker in Seoul, who overcame self-doubt to turn simple sketches into a thriving bakery business. His inspiring journey shows that progress matters more than perfection.
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!
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.
TIP 127 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
TIP 50 | Train Your 3D Vision: How to See Anything in Transparency
This is an essential skill that a designer need to train. If you want to be able to draw things fast and create from your own imagination, think in 3D. Decompose what you see in basic shapes and volumes such as circle, ellipse, sphere, cube, cylinder, cone. Assemble them, then go into the details. TIP 50 Train your 3D vision seeing anything in transparency CHOU-TAC CHUNG – WEASEL Let me illustrate that case first. If you ask a kid to draw an elephant, he will naturally look at the contour and try to reproduce what he see flat on paper. But if you give him some clay, he will roll the clay to...