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3D Sketching on a 2D Surface

Here’s an interesting concept from MIT’s media lab called “Beyond”. The sketches are pretty low fi, but the concept it downright interesting.The system uses a collapsible pen to essentially extrude or punch into the third dimension on the two dimensional surface. It’d be cool to see this with more resolution, refinement, pressure sensitivity, and all [...]

Pressure sensitive ipad sketching?

I’m on vacation and writing from the beach on my iPad but in read about this and just had to post about it! Ten One design, makers of the pogo sketch stylus many people use to sketch on their ipads, has just come up with a way to enable ores sure sensitivity on the iPad. [...]

Quick Tip: Sketching with a Mechanical Pencil

If you’re like me and love to sketch with pencil on occasion, it can be very hard to do while in an impromptu setting with traditional prismacolor or other pencils. You’d need a sharpener and a bevy of pencils if you want to keep sketching with a reasonably sharp pencil point. Here’s the tip: If [...]

Core77 Post: Scissor Project

I worked on this project SEVERAL years ago as a Sophomore in college, but it still was nice to see the project featured on Core77. Check out more about it in my Coroflot Portfolio if you’re curious.

How to Sketch With Contour Lines

Video tutorial on how to sketch form quickly using simple contour lines.

Weekly Sketch Challenge Winner: Headphones

If you haven’t yet, check out the Weekly Sketch Challenge here on the IDSKETCHING forums. Again, sorry guys – no “real” prizes yet, but you do get to bask in the light and glory of being featured on the front page with a link to your site or portfolio, so step right up and check out [...]

Sketch-A-Day Roundup: Oldies and Goodies

For some of the last few sketches on sketch-a-day.com, I pulled a few sketches from the old archive  while I was traveling out east for a workshop. Some are from a few years ago when i was just getting started, and others more recent. If you haven’t yet, be sure to head on over to [...]

iPad Sketch Gallery

iPad sketches fresh from Sketchbook Pro on the new Apple iPad

Practice Makes Better

A long time ago, 7 years ago this fall to be exact, I began my transition from Mathematics major in college to Industrial Design major. At the time, I had little drawing skills to speak of, however I was determined to get better. I cringe at showing this, but this a comparison of one of [...]

Weekly Sketch Challenge Winners

If you haven’t yet, check out the Weekly Sketch Challenge here on the IDSKETCHING forums. Again, sorry guys – no “real” prizes yet, but you do get to bask in the light and glory of being featured on the front page with a link to your site or portfolio, so step right up and check out [...]