Question from Nur Aktas Industrial design student, Turkey As a designer, how do you present your product to the company? As a designer when you present a project to your company (or a client), we don’t straight away present a final project. We set...
Instagram is an amazing tool to publish your work online and get feedback, but especially likes and followers. You gain exposure, you gain popularity. It’s to me great, but there is another side of the coin if you let yourself get hypnotized...
Most beginners abandon their dreams because of lack of confidence. They love sketching but give up too early. They practice a lot and even put a lot of effort as we say “Practice is the key”. But they never progress so they conclude they...
Sketch on a digital tablet with keyboard shortcut
Being not satisfied with the previous “Sketch 5 | Concept diving mask”, I decided to sketch a new version of it. Sketching on a graphic tablet is not only about learning how to use the digital pen, but also the keyboard shortcuts. Your right hand is...
Listening to NOISLI while working When you are a design student or a freelance, you need self-discipline to get things done. No one is going to discipline you on your time management to deliver quality work on the dead line. So many distractions...
Perspective Tutorials (for Beginner)
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
When I started as a beginner Product designer,I always wondered how professional sketchers draw so fast and so well!One of their main secrets is drawing these imaginary lines called: Contour lines. How to draw Contour lines easy 10.02minutes Before...
How to Engage your Audience with Dynamic Sketches
David Zakarias-Weich asked me on the Design Sketchbook’s Facebook page about how I presented my sketches. I share how important it is to engage your audience with Dynamic sketches. It could be for an oral presentation, or for your portfolio, your...
How I draw better Product design – sketching dancers on Youtube
I like to do some “sketch hacking”. I take a technique somewhere to import and improve my Product Design sketching skills. It might be how designers create there own style anyway. But for me, I intend to provoke it, and make it continuously evolving...
Shoe Design
How to Engage your Audience with Dynamic Sketches
David Zakarias-Weich asked me on the Design Sketchbook’s Facebook page about how I presented my sketches. I share how important it is to engage your audience with Dynamic sketches. It could be for an oral presentation, or for your portfolio, your...
How to draw a Nike shoe in 5 steps (SKETCHA on iPad)
My student from my course Sketch Like The Pros, Oliver Esther recommended a new sketching software called: SKETCHA. (available in Apple Store.) And I decided to give it a try by drawing a NIKE shoe! Today I show you how I sketched a sneaker on iPAD...
How to Draw Sneakers “Fast & Dirty”! (Morpholio Trace on iPAD)
Are you a perfectionist? Did you know that personality traits slow down your progress?Today I show you my secret sketching technique so you draw with your feelings and draw more ideas fast! Start practicing this technique daily, and you will improve...
MOTIVATION BOOST | SCHOOL & CAREER
Doodle on receipts at Starbucks (Singapore)
My girlfriend and I went to Starbuck last Tuesday. She likes to go there to work without distraction. So I was pretty much bored. I took a pen and draw on her receipt what I saw around me. Basically, the shop Nubox and Subway. What I like with...
Designer Interview
How Marc became a self-taught toy sculptor and designer | COARSE
Hi guys, Today I have just met an amazing Toy artist in Bangkok! If you love art toys, you might have heard about him: he’s Marc from the duet Marc & Sven from COARSE. I took the opportunity to have a chat with him and learn a bit from his...
Creativity
How to make your Character design attractive and interesting?
Vivek Rai was sending me by email a pretty cool picture from a school task he had about creating characters. He asked me some tips about: How to generate ideas to create Character design? The whole idea is to make interesting features pop out. How...