We just wanted to tease a great interview we are working on from a very talented GM designer. We will be bringing you some exclusive sketches + internal design work that was done on some of the new and exciting products from Buick. In case you were wondering, it is now ok to say EXCITING [...]

I had the opportunity to review some fantastic student portfolios last night at the IDSA student mixer here in San Francisco. Schools in attendance were the Academy of Art, San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, and California College of Arts. It was nice to see the students out in force and the different [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you have never seen Spencer’s mug, check out this cool interview vid he was asked to throw together for www.davison.com/creators. You can learn a lot about Spencer’s bio or by listening to what he’s saying -  either way, there are some great visual nuggets and advice given by Spencer.

How does something you are sketching communicate an idea or an emotion in a simple way? The quickest and best way I know, is to keep it gestural. To start, I would like to define “gestural” (as it pertains to sketching) as movement in line to express feeling, ideas, or meanings. Now before we get [...]