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
Find a lot of design inspiration at shopping with that simple trick
Sometime we wonder how to get more inspiration daily for our project at school. We may be tempted to buy books but they are pretty expensive as a student. Your teacher tell you to go to library, exposition and/or to be observant and get inspired...
Boost your ideas (drawing Sony earphone with the Doodle-Storm technique!)
We all know about Brainstorming. I was thinking about using this creative drawing session with the “Doodle-Storm” technique. Try, and send me yours by email at choutac@thedesignsketchbook.com! It’s a real pleasure to get absorbed by the “Doodle...
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
Incorporating Catwalk Designs into Your Next Shoe Collection
I am following the sneaker magazine ConceptKicks since I am student. A bit of story: This site showcases some student and professional designer artwork in the sneaker industry. It inspired me a lot, and kept me motivated when I was student. I dreamt...
Learn How to Create Stunning Sneaker Designs with These Tips
Get creative with sneaker designs! This video teaches you how to take static sketches and turn them into dynamic masterpieces using ballpoint pen techniques. Check it out now! Learn How to Create Stunning Sneaker Designs with These Tips From Static...
How to make your sneaker sketch stand out with a simple shadow
TIP 57 Make your object levitate adding a distant shadow on the ground A 6 minutes video to see my sneaker drawing process. I love making my objects levitating. It adds some lightness to them. Somehow you may feel that you could grab it in your hand...
MOTIVATION BOOST | SCHOOL & CAREER
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...
Designer Interview
How to Start Design Sketching? (The BIG MISTAKE to avoid)
How to Start Design Sketching? | Q. from Omar Hi sketching lovers! Do you start design sketching? Today I want to answer a question that I got from Omar on Instagram, who wants to know how to get started in design sketching. This is a very common...
Creativity
Fighting isolation blues? Use this downtime to concentrate and channel your energy into creative drawing sessions. Check out our guide on how to do it right! From passive boredom to creative drawings When I ask my friends how things going withthe...