If you’re a product designer,you know how important sketching is for your creative process without rubber. Sketching helps you: visualize your ideas, communicate them to others, and refine them before moving on to prototyping. In other words, the choice of your pen is about choosing your best partner. Sketching is not just about the tools, it’s also about your creative skills. You need pens that are comfortable, reliable, and versatile to bring your sketches to life. That’s...
Archive - December 2014
How to improve my concept art? My goal is to produce concept art engines that are more believable and realistic. To achieve this, I decided to learn more about the different parts of machines and how they work together. This way, I can use them as inspiration and reference for my own concept art designs. Drawing the mechanical pieces of a sewing machine To increase my creativity while I sketch Concept art engine, I feed my memory of forms. It’s good sometimes to select my own inspirational...
A great trick to make concept art engine more fascinating, is to give them a “soul”. How ? By giving them hands, eyes, head, skeleton, anything related to human or animals, your engine won’t be just a robot anymore. You give “him” the ability to think, and being able of self decision of movement. Yesterday I did some mini sketches to provoke multiple ideas. Today, I draw bigger. I want to explore more on how to draw the small and intricate details of the machine such as the joints and...
Concept art, product design, car design, fashion design… all use this trick. It’s essential when you present your initial sketches to your colleagues, friends or eventually clients to promote your best ideas (Such preliminary research are seldom presented to the clients – except if a top selection is made.) To direct people’s eyes on certain elements of the board you mainly play with: the composition the size contrast between the sketches the personal annotation and colours. The sketches...
When I sit on my desk and I start sketching, my fingers are quite stiff. The first sketches are often clumsy and it can be frustrating. However, after a bit of warm up, the lines get better, I feel more confident and I start focusing better. First sketches of the night: I started my sketches with some kind of stiff lines trying to get a “too perfect” result. But it was just too early stage. Instead of trying to get a nice sketch, I should start first looking for new ideas. As well as in product...
To get results faster, use reference pictures as much as you want. Sometime, your pride may stop you, somehow telling you that you are “cheating”. It’s a mistake. Tell yourself that you sketch in order to produce image and ideas. Sketching is not about memory performance (at the end, nobody care much :/). The most important is about how you are able to create, transform something existing to something new. If you can do that, awesome! If you take the habit of drawing with reference pictures...
A fun exercice in Product Design is to draw a men and women version of a design. It’s a good way to be introduced into how to create a design language. You can look at your phone, your computer, your fridge, a bottle of water… and so on, and try to give them a gender. Some may be androgynous. Feel how a male or feminine design should be, and your line will follow. A quick and simple comparison would be between a muscular male and a sexy female body. There is no magic recipe for that. Best is...
I made this video during the shoe design workshop I gave to my friends. You will see step by step how I draw a sneaker. You will also get an introduction to the basic vocabulary of shoe design. A- Start by drawing a last. When I first started to draw sneakers, I didn’t have any method. I tried to draw directly the sneaker’s design. That was a mistake that drive me crazy for months. Among 10 designs, 8 came out clumsy. The proportion was often wrong. And if “Mister proportion” is wrong,the...
Want to draw shoes with friends? Let’s make it fun! Here, we’ll guide you on how to set up a shoe design sketching workshop with your pals, whether for men’s or women’s shoes. It’s simple, fun, and perfect for beginners. We’ll show how easy it is to start sketching and see your skills grow with every minute. Let’s dive into this creative adventure together, where your love for shoes meets the joy of drawing. Following my step-by-step instructions on how...
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. That’s something I hope you will enjoy doing as well. Quick sketching is fascinating for the movement and posture you give to people. I usually quick sketch in the street or watching movies, but I started by something very challenging ! Drawing...
A complex object is the result of many simple things assembled together. With a minimum of gesture, you will be able to draw an infinity of things. I was preparing the sketching video tutorial content at Starbucks. But then, why not sharing with you a bit of it. To explain better my method, I actually decompose my own work in small pieces. And I realised that 80% of the time, I use only 3 types of line to draw. You can refer to the picture below: the straight line the C-curve and the S-curve...
There is a good trick to find new ideas that artist and designers use in concept art, sci-fi movies, but also in product design. Ask yourself: ”What if”… It’s about making unexpected association where we can challenge the impossible and one self’s imagination. For these doodles I asked myself: What if a Chinese temple would preach its religion from a continent to an other navigating by boat. I use the painting method I have just discovered using ONLY water. Let’s see some other examples...
I accidentally spoiled one of my sketch with water. But it was actually a happy discovery ! Let’s make it our TIP of the Day ! I was drinking a bottle of water I just took out from the fridge. Because of the water condensation, some drop of water dropped on some of my sketches. One sip of water and I got 7 “beautiful” stains. But it’s ok. I actually don’t give much value to my sketches so it doesn’t affect me. When such things happened, tell yourself that you are able to draw a lot more anyway...
I have spent 2 days at Johor Bahru in Malaysia. One of the main street was under renovation using huge machines that I have never seen before. I came closer and I met Amp, the “pilot” of this engine. He kindly allowed me to take some pictures. So I took a lot of them ! Amp was super nice, showing me roughly how he manipulate the machine. Most of us carry a mobile phone with a camera included. I recommend to take in picture whatever you feel cool, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME. Even a texture, a pattern...
A few weeks ago, I discovered the Urban sketchers work. I decided to do my own sketch walk at Malacca for 2 days! That’s how I came back home with more than 20 pages of sketches. I am a total beginner in watercolor. A few months ago, I talked to a popular group of artists, “the Rainbow Pig” in Ho Chi Minh weeks ago at a Manga festival. One of them, whose name is Kuno taught me some tricks. I kept them in my mind and decided to apply them during this trip. I can tell you that these few tricks...
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