Archive for May 2009

Headphone winners!

Well the verdict is in! Here are the top four entries from our headphone sketch competition! Congratulations and thank you to all participants for your involvement with this fun round of sketch work! If you didn’t get the top spot this time around, don’t worry, we are already working on other competitions and are lining up some [...]

Refreshed Look Coming Soon

Something fresh is cooking in the id.sketching kitchen . . . We’ve refreshed our logo for one, and personally we like it better It’s been a long journey for IDSKETCHING.COM. When we started out, we never thought to ourselves that the site would be this popular, but thanks for making this awesome by visiting the [...]

Quick Tip: Page Hierarchy

Recently it has been my pleasure to stop in on a few schools and visit with id students. As I’ve looked over work (sketch pages in particular) I have noticed a need for better organization of thoughts and visual information. Obviously with id sketching you want to tell a visual story. The best way to [...]

One day left for headphones!

Just a friendly reminder to get your submissions in for the headphone sketch competition! The competition section in the forums is filling up with work and we are excited to see the results! Make sure you read the official rules once more before submitting. Good luck to all! (sketch by yoris).

The Human Head

So we have been noticing a lot of work popping up on the forum for the competition! One of the things we also noticed was that some of the “head sketches” showing off the product need a little love. I know first hand that people can be very intimidating to sketch! So here is a [...]

Open Call for Forum Moderators

We’re looking for three forum moderators to help with content , help come up with some fresh ideas for our forums, and fight of spammers while riding a segway and wielding a tiny machine gun. Just kidding about the last one. If you feel you’re up to it, here’s what we’re lookin for -  Have [...]

Marker Sketch Tutorial: Luggage

Okay, here’s another sketch tutorial for you. We’ve received a couple requests for more marker demos with traditional media, so I broke it down for you in a few steps. People always ask what’s the key to laying down some good marker or pencil – I think the answer is really simple. Relax, and have fun and [...]

Fresh to Death: Hot Sketches on Deviant Art

If you’re feverishly working on your entry for the competition, then check out these illustrations on Deviant Art by 600v. This link was sent to me by a good friend of mine. His Stuff’s definitely worth checking out as well.  Good luck and remember to join/check out the forums to participate in the competition! image [...]

KAMAZ competition

So if you are into entering lots of cool competitions, enter the headphone one here! …and then go check out what Simkom.com and Cardesign.ru have been up to. They have a KAMAZ Dakar 2022 truck design contest that just started today! I have been watching some KAMAZ video footage on Youtube and I’m definitely going [...]

Forums Open again

So we opened the forums for registration again. All user registrations are approved one by one by me. Be sure to fill out required fields when registering or you will be denied. Here are a few rules as well No Spam (This includes ads of any kind or any offers) No Porn posts or anything [...]