Unlock your full sketching potential with simple yet effective tips on drawing circles on cubes, cylinders in perspective, and choosing the right pens like Signo Uni-Ball. Perfect for aspiring product designers looking to elevate their workflow and creative expression.

Tonight I was chilling in the shopping mall NEX at Serangoon, and “randomly” went to the pen shop!

In this article below, you will see few quick sketches I made with the Signo Uni-Ball gel pen showing you some Tips about circles on cubes. If you want to glearn more from a video tutorial, you can have a look at the previous article: How to draw ellipses in perspective.


Spring or Autumn colour collection?

Love the alternative colours that are much more fun than the regular blue and red.
Unfortunately these colours was not available in pack – so I had to buy them individually at $1.95. (The currency is in Singapore Dollars = USD$1.36)

Pen signo Mitsubishi -the design sketchbook Colour selection

Get pens for drawing

I end going out happily from the shop with 11 new pens !
A series of 8 Mitsubishi SIGNO UNI-BALL GEL 0.38 and 3 Kuretake “twin pen” ZIG clean color F. I wonder why pen’s name are so long…  -.-U

Pen signo Mitsubishi -the design sketchbook

I couldn’t wait to draw with and see which one would be my best drawing pen. So I walked back with a double speed. I couldn’t resist sketching something as soon as I came back home.


Let’s do a quick pen test

The Signo Uni-ball Pen has a great flow of ink and gives nice variation of line thickness. However, you can’t play much with the lightness itself like how a Ball point pen does.
Like the previous video tutorial, I sketched some ellipses in perspective.

Pen signo Mitsubishi -the design sketchbook test ellipse perspective cube
Drawing ellipses in perspective

It is pretty fun to draw circles on cubes.

As you can notice, all the circles are touching the others. Make sure they are well connected at the center of each edge. The pink lines are the contour lines of the cube.

Pen signo Mitsubishi -the design sketchbook test ellipse cube
Drawing contour lines around the cube


How about drawing cylinders ?

At the bottom of the picture, you can notice some cylinders:
To do so, just draw 2 ellipses on 2 opposite surfaces.

Then connect them!
Basically, if you can draw a cube in different angles, you can draw cylinders in any angles as well! It’s Magic!

Pen signo Mitsubishi -the design sketchbook test
Drawing cylinders in any angles

Today is not really a tutorial, but more some tips I hope are helpful to you !
Feel free to watch the previous video tutorial and try to draw circles and cylinders within cubes. Smile

See you!
Cheers,
Chou-Tac


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Chou-Tac

Hello! I'm Chou-Tac, a Product Designer from France.

If the sketching methods I’ve acquired aid me in my life and in my industrial design career, I believe that they can also help you reach your dream goal as a student or professional designer.

Leave a comment in the blog or send me an email at choutac@thedesignsketchbook.com : )

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