IDSKETCHING.COM will be representin’ @ the IDSA Western District Conference on April 24th.  If you haven’t already registered, you better get on it. I think the deadline is April 2nd. I’ll be hosting a workshop on sketching specifically related to design thinking, how I see things, my workflow, and some awesome tips, tricks and audience [...]

We searched far and wide and found an amazing talent to interview this month. His name is John Bell and his work is definitely worthy of a gallery. Mr. Bell has an Industrial Design background but followed a career and passion for concept art and movies. He has had a distinguished career (working on some [...]

When looking for cases to hold all of your expensive pens and markers there are endless options out there. If you are in school, you are probably one of the many id students who hoard whatever nice juicy marker or pen you can get ahold of and hope it lasts a really long time! But [...]

We want to thank all of you who check in with us here at idsketching.com. We are working hard to make sure there is interesting content AND new/fresh stuff as often as possible. Coming soon we have some cool designer interviews lined up as well as some more videos in the works. Feel free to [...]

I spent a few hours this weekend playing around with my brand new copy of Autodesk’s new SketcBook Pro 2010. We had reported the announcement of it’s release a while back and now it’s here! For your delight, I will be providing a video reveiw of new and improved features this week. For those interested, [...]

I love a good concept sketch, and these are plain fun. Here are some sketches from a concept wii controller for NERF. Check it out. Notice all the ellipses See coming here and practicing is useful after all… even if we do just show you how to sketch a cylinder here and there. Coroflot.com Via [...]

It is often beneficial to sketch up a quick idea or two of how a person interacts with a given product. Drawing in a human hand(s) to help present scale and orientation will allow you to quickly communicate exactly how the product lives in the human world. This video tutorial seeks to shed some light [...]

So . . . you’re a poor college student, starving artist, or another casualty of the raging recession. Markers aren’t getting any cheaper, the refill inks can be terribly expensive – so what do you do? The solution is rubbing alcohol

See: Marker Tutorial: Cube Last week, I did  a quick sketch render of a cube. This week, we’ll take a look at a cylinder. If you ‘d like to follow along, simply download the cylinder sketch here and print it out. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can run some marker paper through the printer and [...]

Who doesn’t like looking at juicy car sketches right? These very cool emotional sketches of the new Mercedes-Benz SLR were released today and they are quite nice! The newest and last SLR being produced by Mercedes does not dissapoint! You can tell the designer was making vroom vroom noises as he penned these out…check out [...]