Periodically I get questions from students, professionals, and curious people, and sometimes, those questions get me thinking. Recently, I received a question about how to develop a style. It really got me thinking, because I’ve never tried to deduce the origins of style when it comes to sketching. It happens so subtly and naturally, that [...]

Michael Roller, an educator and designer, and friend of mine, posted some great and interesting tips about sketching on his blog recently – Always warm up, Always pin up, and Always cheat. Obviously, I’m a huge fan of them (elkse why would I be posting about them), but more the first two than the third. [...]

Well we just ran the interview on Shujan Bertrand and evidently she has been very busy! Idsketching has learned that she has been offered (and accepted) a position as Design Director at Incase. Congratulations and good luck with this new chapter Shujan! We look forward to more fantastic work!

It’s time we had some female representation up in here on idsketching.com! Shujan Bertrand has had extensive experience with a variety of design gigs over the years that have taken her all over the world. She has been extensively involved with the design scene in the San Francisco area over 10 years (mostly with Astro Studios), [...]

As some of you know, I was in the midwestern/eastern United states for a short trip. My wife and I were feeling a bit hungry, so we decided to stop in at a restaurant. Any guesses as to which one? We were VERY surprised as well when we went inside. (Sorry about the quality of [...]

Recently I was pointed to this short little video on the Copic marker site that gives a great little synopsis of why we (as designers) sketch and render. It features some work by Oliver Neuland (who seems to have a lot of sketch skills and natural talent!). One of my favorite lines from the short [...]

I was contacted by a friend of mine, Sean Favero, who has a really cool process blog by the way, to come up with some tee-shirt designs. They’re now for sale via his online store, and are definitely worth taking a look. No sketches on his site, but I do have these scribbled on some [...]

Everyone’s gotta start somewhere, and believe me, I have been there as a beginning sketcher . . . . not knowing how to draw an ellipse, misunderstanding perspective, under appreciating practice, and so the list goes on. Mind you, I’ve always been doodling or dra  wing in one way or another, despite my early educational [...]

On October 1, I had the opportunity to travel from San Francisco to Racine, Wisconsin to host a workshop with an awesome group of engineers from SC Johnson in Racine. It’s about an hour north of Chicago proper. We spent all day together talking about concepts ranging from the language of sketch and basic sketch [...]