October 15, 2025

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.

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1 Learning how to sketch is about making iteration.

We try, we do mistakes, we adjust… we retry… and so on. That’s how we keep learning and get better at anything. If you want to learn the violin, you have to try, explore and train your ears. So you will fine-tune. Same for drawing.

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Kimon Nicolaides – Gesture drawing without an eraser

I was reading an article from my friend Roy Pallas, blogger and illustrator from Blog-ledessin.com.

He was talking about Kimon Nicolaides, author of “The natural way to draw”. The author recommends to do not look for perfection.

“The earlier you do the 1000 mistakes,
the earlier you get rid of them and reach your goal.”
– Kimon Nicolaides


2 You do not need any eraser to sketch.

Kimon Nicolaides also recommends learning drawing without an eraser (a method I totally share as well) – we shouldn’t erase our mistakes but correct them. We can better keep track of the mistakes.

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You will learn faster without an eraser – keep track of your mistakes.

3 Do not draw with contour, but gesture drawing.

I didn’t know much about Kimon Nicolaides, but he seams sharing a similar philosophy as mine – especially about gesture drawing. It’s about sketching with your feelings, not by contour – so your lines are dynamic and convey emotion. And I like to import this technique for Industrial design sketching, fashion design, concept art, urban sketch… That’s actually what I tell my students from my course [Sketch like the Pros].

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Leonardo Peneranda – Student of [Sketch like the Pros], 3rd module.
Put your pencil aside – make a try at sketching with a ballpoint pen only!
It’s pretty fun. The whole idea is to start any sketch with light pen pressure. Soon you will gain a lot of accuracies.

Have fun! And let me know how things going in the comments below.

Take care.
Cheers,
Chou-Tac

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