Hi, Product Design Sketcher! Ready to develop your sketching skills and imagination? Today, I share with you a super easy sketching technique to draw your own products even if you are a beginner!For that, this technique will use the Cylinder as a...
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4 Steps to Master Drawing Skills: A Beginner’s Guide to Learn How to Learn That’s great! You decided to start learning how to draw. But you wonder how to draw anything you ever wanted? Naturally, you copy designers or artists you like, but it...
How to Draw Sections (on Spheres + Ellipsoids) When we love drawing, I believe we have the DNA of a geek. We got to learn plenty of sketching techniques, tips and tricks to be able to draw from our imagination. Today, I have prepared a very specific...
I receive messages from new readersabout “How they regretted stopping drawing”. Are you in that case too? We all have busy lives and it can be tough to find time or motivation to draw regularly. That’s why I wanted to share...
One of the first things I learned at my design school, as a beginner designer, is that presentation matters in Industrial Design.Yes, you have to convey your ideas by showing visually how a product works, how is it made, and how to use it… but...
Beginner tutorials
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
How to draw a sphere (with the XYZ axis)
HOW TO DRAW A SPHERE NOTE: We saw previously how to draw a circle in perspective. (Which is represented by an ellipse drawing.) Sphere drawing Today’s tutorial, we see how to draw a sphere in a simple way using the XYZ axis. Before starting...
Line-Weight Basics: How to Draw Expressively with Lines in 3 steps
Expand your sketching ability by understanding how to use lines expressively! Learn this artful skill of line-weight that designers apply in all their drawings with my easy-to-follow guide. Unlock your creativity now! How to draw with line-weight...
How to Draw Transparent Objects (with light reflection in 3 steps)
In a previous post, we saw how to draw a reflection on flat and transparent surfaces. Now, we draw a transparent object: The cap of a Bic Cristal pen.The degree of difficulty is a bit higher but still achievable by beginners. Let’s study a...
Shoe Design
Hello! It’s Chou-Tac How are you today? Last day I was at Panam, a French pub in Ho Chi Minh owned and driven by my franco-viet friends Khiem and Remy. I enjoy going there to chill and eat Kebab. They make the greatest Kebab in town with...
Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Specs When Buying a Drawing Digital Tablet
When I saw the Samsung Note Pro 12.2, I couldn’t resist drawing something on it. (See at the bottom of this page) The tablet carries a customized version of Sketchbook pro. TIP 21 | To get a digital tablet, do not believe the specs My first tablet...
How to make big progress with Sketching Challenge ?
Hello ! It’s Chou-Tac, It’s 11am here in France. And before going to gym, I wanted to announce that this week: I am starting a 7 meters of “Sneaker Sketching Challenge” ! Yes ! it is about 4 times my height ! Ohoh !! (I am...
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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
Time is precious and no one can stretch it. How about converting your transportation time to a productive session ? I remember after class, I was drawing in the subway going home. And my classmate asked me: – Hey you never stop drawing ...