A big welcome to Jeff Smith, our newest idsketching.com contributor! Currently, Jeff is the Design Director at Reflex Design, Inc. Reflex Design, Inc. Reflex is an Industrial Design consulting group located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. In addition, Jeff teaches as adjunct faculty at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in the ID department. He is [...]

Here are some cool sketches added to the sketchbook section from Michael DiTullo. Thanks Mike!

We are taking the day off here at idsketching.com. In the spirit of President’s Day however you should check out Mattkirkland.com where you can find a few presidential sketches and other “sketch experiments” by web and industrial designer Matt Kirkland. Stay tuned for new stuff this week!

If you have never checked out the Simkom.com site before, you must drop what you are doing and check it out right now! They have a huge collection of beautiful sketches, renderings, and other nuggets of goodness. The site is heavier on emotional type automotive work but is still good to look at no matter [...]

Why yes we do exist outside the website and aren’t just figments of your imagination. John and I (Spencer) had the opportunity to visit one of the local art and design schools in San Francisco for a sit down with some first year students. Sometimes we forget what it was like being in school and [...]

When it all comes down to it, we sketch to communicate. Sometimes simply sketching an object in the standard orthographic and perspective views isn’t enough. In cases like these, we sometimes need to go a little deeper with our explanation/communication to the viewer, and that’s where an exploded view comes in.

While most of you may not have heard of Rob Jensen, most of you have heard of Ford, and the Ford Mustang. Rob, the Detroit based Ford designer has most recently worked on the development of the Ford Mustang GT500 (Awesome car and design by the way) and has been involved in several key projects [...]

We’ve had quite a few requests on how to draw cars, and while I am no exotic car designer, I can draw a mean pinewood derby/toy car. The principles are the same – basic perspective, good line quality and line weight, proper control of your tool, and relax while you sketch. As you watch the [...]

As many of you know we have recently made plans that will add a good amount of diversity to the site. This week along with some new video content, we will be introducing our first “interview” with a designer. We wanted to start it off with a bang by featuring an awesome Ford Motor Company [...]

I did a couple of Sketch pages relating to softgoods. This beach bag was sketched up on marker paper with a black Prismacolor pencil and Prismacolor markers on front and back. Check out the link to take a peek. More is on the way!