So it’s always good to try new things and push your design skills. I thought it might be good for me to try and sketch out a toy of some sort to get myself into a different style/mood and to learn new things. I ended up doing just a basic little toy cell phone for [...]

This video was hanging out in my video archives for some time and I pulled it out today. Now I know people want more product sketches, and there will be some. My microphone broke, so there’s no audio on this one. So hop into itunes, put on some of your favorite music and watch along [...]

Ok here is your chance! We are calling all entries for our second sketch competition here at idsketching.com. The theme for this competition is “headphones.” We want you to do up your best sketch technique showing off your skills (digital or analog). Here are the rules and how to enter… 1. Sketches must be original work. [...]

We are going to be giving away some free copies of Autodesk’s Sketchbook Pro! Woohoo! Details are coming very soon…for now check out this vid on some of the new features and fun stuff you can do with this very cool sketching program.

We got tipped on this killer competition, perfect for all you sketch monkeys out there! It’s being put on by LG and sponsored by Autodesk and has some killer prizes – no joke. Check out the details below or visit their website. I think it’s worth taking a  look for over 80K in prizes. This [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As a designer it is important to be a form giver. One of the hardest things to do with a sketch is making something 2d appear 3d by giving it structure and a feeling of substance. Sometimes searching for form and developing surface is a matter of diving into some scrappy sketch exploration. This video [...]

SketchBook Pro is an incredibly easy and straight foward piece of sketching sofware available for Mac or PC. (seriously it will take you only a few hours to learn). The folks at Autodesk have been working hard to make it even better with an update version available soon! Our friend Chris Cheung over at Autodesk [...]