[ the Design Sketchbook ]'s video: From 3 Simple Forms to Product Design for beginners

Let's start this tutorial by drawing the 3 simple forms, and transform them into products easily with this beginner sketching technique. I'm Chou-Tac, I am a Product Designer from France.To get started in design sketching with confidence, I created the Designer Starter Kit for you to download: https://www.thedesignsketchbook.com/sign-up-and-receive-the-ebook-the-designer-starter-kit/ Get ready to start today! FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/thedesignsketchbook INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/thedesignsketchbook To contact me, simply send me an email at choutac@thedesignsketchbook.com :) ---- Hey guys, I'm Chou-Tac. So let's see how to draw simple forms to products. I'm going to show you in this video, one of the main principle of Product Design Sketching on how to create your own products from scratch. So remember to Click on the bell to subscribe to the channel. So today I'm discovering with you the software KRITA that you can download on the website for free www.kita.org. Alright, so let's start.  So I was pretty curious about this software because of the brushes, which of... which are used by many artists. So let's make a try right here. So for this product here, for this exercise right here I invite you to take a piece of paper and draw with me. So you're going to do one ellipse, one circle, and one cube. First steps in Perspective with the Designer Starter Kit For the cube, if you don't know how to draw them or you feel pretty hesitant on that you can get the Designer Starter Kit where I show you all the steps to draw them in a very simple way and to make your first step in perspective. So you got the link here below this video. So here we go. So what I'm doing here with the cube is to draw the Contour lines, which actually give a better perception of the volume. Draw The Contour Lines They are very convenient and very essential for product designer to use the contour lines because it's very fast to show the volume without spending ages to do the shadows on it. So you can already have a premice of your product. Add Round Corners And I like to round the corners because it gives you some more realism to it. And here what I do is I'm adding some extra Contour line for this elipse and circle to create some extra volumes on one second few second only. Add Axis And here's an axis to just to show like the X Y Z axis and I like to draw this little cross to better mention like what is in the front and what is on the back. Visualize in Transparency So, one of the rules also in product design is to draw in transparency as you can see, I imagine that these forms are actually transparent like made of glass. Draw from General Shapes to Details Alright. So what I have done here is that I have started with phase one which was Draw the main shape from the general shape, and then I'm drawing some details. That's a key principle in Product Design. You don't start by drawing the details. You start by drawing the main forms which is here like very simple, very basics and then you go on the details. And always remember to follow the perspective. Don't draw Full Textures, but Partially And here is a trick is that for the textures, I like for the little dot as you can see is I'm not covering the whole surface of the little dots. What I do is that I'll just give a hint of them because in product design, sketching when you want to draw something is pretty convenient, actually that you just represent a bit of the texture - and then he's actually meaning the overall of it. So it's a partial pattern. So here we go. If you have a full it is not recommended it's fine but it's not recommended and I better give just a hint of them. Your brain will actually recompose everything. Alright so it's actually help you to better focus on the overall and that your eyes is not just putting this little little dot. Take your Time on Details Alright so let's keep going so I quite like to as you can see is that more I go trought this sketch more I like to spend more time on the details it's very fast to show the main form is actually taking a few seconds and after that the details just take your time. As you can see here also some contour lines right here that actually helped me to solve to to understand to show is what is going in or outside of this hole of this sphere. So it's just like, quick doodling here. I haven't do much of research on data I've been through like some thumbnails. I'm just drawing on... along the way I'm creating along the way. ... Full article at www.thedesignsketchbook.com