This article walks aspiring product designers through building a portfolio that blends strong sketches with meaningful research. Learn how to pick projects you’re excited about, show you care about users, and present your process clearly—so admissions see your potential from the first glance.
Category - LEARN 1 TIP A DAY
Learn how to draw in Product design sketching: LEARN 1 TIP A DAY. This blog page is a collection of daily tips and tutorials on how to improve your sketching skills and create stunning designs. Whether you are a beginner or a professional, you will find something useful and inspiring here. Join the 365-keep-sketching-challenge and unleash your creativity!
This article breaks down the trio of essentials top design schools seek: passionate motivation, creative problem-solving, and the ability to communicate ideas through sketches. See how to showcase these in your portfolio and conversations.
Start with a light marker to rough-silhouette your creature, then flesh out details with a Stabilo Stylist. Focus on pose, emotion, and volume—without getting overwhelmed by details. Dive into a step-by-step method that turns idea into expressive form.
Discover my top drawing software for beginners, highlighting ease of use, cross-platform availability, and how each tool fits into a product design workflow. Learn which app fits your style, join the conversation, and level up your sketches today.
Movement amplifies storytelling in fashion illustration. This guide shows how to identify invisible movement lines, exaggerate key curves, and coordinate props with the model for a lively, publication-ready sketch. Dive in to elevate your design sketches today.
The “10,000 hours of practice” rule, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, claims you need 10,000 hours to master a skill-but new research shows this isn’t the full story. While Gladwell highlights deliberate, focused practice, mastery isn’t just about logging hours; it’s about how you practice and the unique path you take.
I found some drawing in my luggage from when I was watching RIO2 in the plane. I was looking for paper, so I started to draw on the first paper available, the Air Sickness Bag. I personally like animation. I believe that it helps me to give motion to my drawing lines, but also having a better understanding of 3D volumes for my product sketches...
Have you ever felt awkward to draw something when people are looking above your shoulder? It happens that a sketcher suddenly can’t draw anything. Trying to sketch new things, he’s paralyzed and draws nothing; thinking that his sketch may be judged by people. TIP#33 No Failure, No Progress Similar to “No Pain, No Gain”,When you meet a...
Let me recommend some art books that I personally enjoy: the products of the publishing company Taschen. Taschen publishing started in the eighties as the brainchild of an 18-year-old comic shop owner, Benedikt Taschen. Since then, Taschen has become a staple of art books. Its publications cover painting, sculpture, photography, and fashion...
Today, we talk about art material to add in your drawing tools as an artist or designer.After sketching The Grand Budapest Hotel in the plane with a Twin Marker, I wanted to practice an other great tool: The mechanical pencil with color lead. With that, you will draw better croquis! Mechanical Pencil 0.7mm Greater croquis with a color lead...
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