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Hi Chou-Tac
i’ll be sitting for SC exams next week.
Can you help me out with basic skills for free hand sketching?
Thanks.
Hello Poushkal,
What is an SC exam ? School exam ?
1 week is pretty fast.
First, go through the Designer Starter Kit. As you have only few days, please send me an Email at choutac@thedesignsketchbook.com. I will send you the full book in one shot. Then feel free to look at the recent post, there are video tutorials that are related to the guides.
2nd, If you wanna be able to draw some volume in 3d pretty fast, may I recommend you these tutorials.
Draw 3D volumes using contour lines: https://www.thedesignsketchbook.com/tip-138-how-to-start-drawing-anything-better-in-4-steps-with-the-random-product-technique/
and
Make your product sketching more real: https://www.thedesignsketchbook.com/tip-141-one-simple-trick-to-make-your-sketches-more-real/
Of course they might not be enough for your exam, but they will help you get instant results.
Hi
Chou-Tac
I’m a perspective teacher, but don’t have enought exercices about stroke and stroke shadows, ¿Could you help me? Or recomend some exerxices to do in my class.
Thanks.
Hello Juan,
The way I would explain shadow to Design sketching student is using Hatching. Because we draw with ball point pen only. No pencil, no eraser. It’s clean, fast and efficient.
So you could start by showing small squares with the different values of grey from light to dark. You would play with different variation of hatching (depending of proximity, thickness, cross hatching).
From there, you could show to your students a simple application of the shadow on the different surface of a cube. Hope it helps 🙂
PS: 2 examples of hatching with cast shadow. https://www.thedesignsketchbook.com/?op_live_search_style=1&op_live_search_all_pages=Y&op_live_search_product=&op_live_search_category=&op_live_search_subcategory=&s=light
Thanks!!, it will be usefull for my class, thanks for share your knowledge.
My pleasure Juan 🙂
Hiii.
Chou-Tac
i am nikhil..i am preapring for fashion designing but my sketching&coloring is very dull..plzz help me and give tricks..
Hello Nikhil,
You need some tips for your fashion sketching?
For your sketching, try to give dynamic poses to your model, and give your model a 9 head height. As soon as you got a nice pose, don t hesitate to use underlay to draw multiple proposal of clothing. For the colours, if you are clumsy, you can try with pastel colors first. They are light so you dont take much risk. A good tool is watercolour, it s smooth, and even if you do some mistakes, it looks good. Hehe. You dont have to be perfect. Remember to mix your colour with A LOT of water. Then when your watercolour is dry, feel free to add a pop up colour that will give more contrast to your sketches and attract people eyes. Remember to leave a lot of blank.
Hope it helps 🙂
The two links in the email for “Guide 1” don’t reference any files and look like click-bait. Is there any other way to get the files?
Do you mind try again ?
If you still face that issue, please send me an email at choutac@thedesignsketchbook.com
We will find a solution.
Hello Chou-Tac !
My name’s Bastien, I’m 18 years old in approximately two hours and I’m a French student in the preparatory class in a Art/Drawing school. My dream is to become a Game Artist (video games is my main passion). And actually sketching is really complicated to me. I like really much adding details and I can’t even prevent me from making some haha. So I hope my level will improve (I need to learn as much as I can in one year if I wanna enter in my dream Game Art School :p)
Happy Birthday Bastien =)
Try to do not go into details too early. Draw starting from general shapes to details. If you take this habit from now, you will improve so much faster. No point to spend hours on details if your main shape is not ready yet or not correct. In this case you might struggle to make it look good and end disappointed.
If you start with a good main shape, and perspective setup, it will become more fun and easy for you to add the details.
Tip: you can train your details even on a simple cylinder or sphere. Do many experimentation instead of trying to make only “piece of art”
A bientot ! (je suis francais auss au fait)
Chou-Tac,
My name is Frank. I am a graduate from DigiPen Institute of Technology. We focused on a lot of traditional drawing, not only learning how to make a mark but also the right ways to do it. We also covered a lot of the digital realms. As I have no real issues with sketching and drawing, I am interested in in the design aspects of your guide. We learned how to design but for games and moves in a sense that we were all over the place and not specific.
Sometimes I have difficulties with the basics. This is where your guide seems to be where I would want. Will comment later on how the guide has helped me.
Thanks,
Frank
Hello Frank,
I believe this guide will be too basic for you though. But you may find out some tricks that will help you on your sketching routine. 🙂
Hello, Chou-Tac. My name is Brian. I am a veteran EE making the transition from electrical engineering to design under the guidance of a great mentor, an accomplished professional designer. I have done a few relatively simple projects in the last ten years, and have some 3D CAD modeling experience. Now I am going full-time. My greatest need at this time is improvement in sketching skills.
Hello Brian,
Hope the blog will help you during your learning journey.
It’s good to have a mentor, it helps fighting procrastination.
See yah !
Hi Chou-Tac. My name’s Cake, I’m a high-school student from Thailand. I really glad to find you . I’m learning product design but my sketching skill is not good enough .The things that i think in my mind but when i draw it in the paper it’s not beautiful as i think it should be. So, i want to improve my skill and want to know how to use Copic .I really need your advice .
Thank you 🙂
Welcome to the blog Chutikarn. 🙂 Take your time at decomposing the product you see in many simple shapes. That will help you visualise and draw them better.
Hi Chou-Tac. My name is Wouter, I’m 23 and I’m recently graduated as a Master in Computer Science. My main interest in Computer Science lies within Computer Graphics, the mathematical backend for 3D programs like Blender, Maya, 3DS Max. But, whole my life I’m also passionate about Computer Graphics Art, which makes me always come back and try these programs (Blender, Maya, …) to become better at CG art. These learning paths always end after 1-2 weeks when it becomes clear that one better first learns to draw, something I always give up after a couple of days. I find it really hard for myself to keep my motivation going, I hope this book gives me a good start to keep the momentum going.
Let me know how it goes Wouter 🙂
Hey ChouTac, what up? My name is Lavi, I’m a highschool student from Israel. I’m dreaming on learning and working as comic book artist, graphic designer, concept artist or anything else related to art. As for now, I’m learning at the art class at my school, trying to learn new things and develop my style. I’d say I’m feeling somewhat fine with drawing anatomy & organic things, but I’m still struggling with mech, bots, buildings etc… I have a good feeling that your blog&tutorials will be a great help for me
I would really appreciate I you’d have a snap look on my work at my Instagram page “Lavi.Art”
Thanks again and you’re amazing!
Welcome Lavi 🙂 Have a lot of fun !
Hello there! Thank you for making this,I appreciate the help I can get from this! 🙂
I am currently an 18-year old Advertising Arts student about to enter my 3rd year in college and am residing in this island in the Philippines called Cebu.
I was looking for something to learn and improve over this summer break so I found your site after deciding to work on my illustration skills having just barely made through a class where the instructor failed to teach us properly, ahah.
I look forward to challenging myself with skills that can help with my incoming classes and personal portfolio project! ╰(*´︶`*)╯ thank you!
Hello ChouTac. My name is ashutosh from India. I am a product design student. Even if people appreciate my sketching I feel that my sketching is bad and I love to improve it always. Thank you for the tutorials your uploading and the guide book. Looking forward to learn more from you.
I had a question to ask. Should I go on for electronic sketching pad? if yes, which one will you recommend?
Hello Ashutosh,
I don’t recommend Ipad for drawing (Even though some people do great stuff on it). The palm recognition is not that good so I keep having a conflict between the pen and my palm. :S I prefer to use the Samsung Pro note for an on-the-go usage. This type of tablet is just a bonus. You can’t install Illustrator and photoshop on them, 2 softwares that are needed as a Product designer. So you may consider a Wacom tablet instead. Feel free to see more about the materials here: https://www.thedesignsketchbook.com/category/industrial-design-sketching-tools/ See yah.
Hi~ Chou-Tac, My name is Jasmine Shiao, I’m from Taiwan and I’m currently studying in product design. I want to improve my sketch ability but always don’t know how to start. It’s always confuse me whether setting a topic for the sketch is needed or not.
Hello Jasmine,
I understand your feel. You may try this, the Random product. It should help you start drawing products without topics. It’s for training your 3D vision, memory of forms and hand skills.
https://www.thedesignsketchbook.com/tip-138-how-to-start-drawing-anything-better-in-4-steps-with-the-random-product-technique/
thank you 🙂
All the best Quinton. With the energy you have, I am sure you will achieve anything you want 🙂