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Playlist - Basic Sketching
Essential tips, techniques, and exercises for beginners to build strong sketching skills, master basic shapes, and develop confident, expressive drawings.
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.
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 simple shape become more real. In other words, how you will transform a geometric shape to an object. At the end of the video, you will see a small demo...
How to Draw Ellipses in Perspective | 7 Steps Easy Tutorial How to draw ellipses in perspective step-by-step. How to Draw Ellipses in PerspectiveStep 1 | Draw a box with a 2-point perspectiveStep 2 | Divide the front face into 4 equal parts and find the center.Step 3 | Draw the Minor axis going through the Vanishing point and the center.Step 4 | Find the middle of each edge of the squareStep 5 | Trace your ellipse!Step 6 | Optional: Check that the Major axis is Perpendicular to the Minor...
Tap into your creative side and learn how to sketch in just five minutes.My easy to follow 4 steps tutorial sketching on a Starbucks napkin! This afternoon,I stop for a while at a cafe Paul to sketch. I am preparing the next week’s course of [Sketch like the Pros]. And I wanna show you that: Anybody can Sketch! Yes!! No exception (Except if you don’t want to, but then I think you wouldn’t be reading me now). I took a picture of my yummy Crême brulée and mint lemonade. (Looks...
How to draw a camera GoPro easily How to draw a camera GoPro easily HOW TO DRAW A CAMERA | GO PRO | BALLPOINT PEN SKETCHING Hello! I often receive messages of aspiring designerswho do not dare to sketch and are worried about making mistakes. To help you overcome this fear, I am giving a 7-day sketching challenge to my students! I share with you the videos drawing tutorials of the week showing you step-by-step a method on CAMERA DRAWING EASY! Since the camera become digital...
From 3 Simple Forms to Product Design (for beginners) | Product Design Sketching Table Of Contents How to Draw Product Design from Simple Forms (Easy Level)Starting with Basic ShapesEnhancing Your SketchFinal TouchesConclusionDRAW 3 SIMPLE FORMS TUTORIAL | TRANSCRIPT How to Draw Product Design from Simple Forms (Easy Level) Product design sketching is an art form that blends creativity with technical skill, and here’s a guide to help you transform simple geometric shapes into detailed...
Wanna draw 3D cubes like a Pro Designer Fun and Easy? XYZ axis is the secret shortcut to sketch cubes from any angle and viewpoint in 1 minute!
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!
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 fast. How to draw contour lines I am Chou-Tac. So welcome to the Design Sketchbook. Before getting started, I would like to invite you to download the designer starter kit. To get started, what I like to do is to draw in and read what is not...
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 : )
Chou-Tac
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