Sharpen your Sense of Proportion

Let’s continue with the video tutorials exported from the exercises you can find in the book: the Designer Starter Kit.

Feel free to download it and find the right elements for a good start in Design sketching.

This week we already saw in the video:

1. How to draw straight lines
2. How to draw perfect squares
3. How to draw awesome circles

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Video tutorial in pictures below

To obtain quick and fast proportions, take the good habit of dividing things by half. It is much more efficient and accurate than guessing by incrementation (in pink).

Doing so, you will rise your sketching speed. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not about tracing your lines faster but reducing your time of thinking process. With this technique, you get instantaneous results. Some more, you won’t need any ruler.

Most of the things on earth are symmetrical.

So this technique gets really powerful to estimate proportions.

Take your pen and some paper, and trace your lines and division. Try to rise your speed along the way until it becomes natural to you. Then, wherever you are, observe the things that surround you, and have fun at visually dividing them in equal part.

Hope it helps, if yes, let me know in the comments!