As a 3rd year student on Product Design I have to say that I agree 100% with anything you said and explaining the fears that people have when trying to sketch. You are truly an inspiring person.
This is a 2015 video, and I’m watching it with complete focus in 2018- your videos are crisp, to the point with just the right amount of humour and light hearted tone, and the sketches you work with seem to be real products, which makes it much more interesting. You really put in efforts for the transitions, the B roll videos, the music. Not only your content is awesome, but your video presentation is too! You are awesome!
I am a French student in product design in Paris. I discovered by chance your RUclips channel that I find exciting. I find your way to explain very educational. In addition, you speak slowly and surely, which allows a French like me to understand your English easily and progress in passing! All your advice is extremely constructive and useful. I advised all my class to watch your videos, because these valuable tips will benefit us all our schooling and even after ...Continue to enrich us with this quality content! And especially, THANK YOU !
I've been working in the industry for a long time and decided to improve my drawing skills as my new year's resolution. I'm guilty of the non-confident line drawings and your video has given me a new perspective and understanding of what I need to do. Thank you!
@Tom Walker, for some reason, I can't reply to your comment. You don't need an expensive scanner, the ones on eBay should be fine as long as they are a flat bed and can scan at a good resolution, 600dpi or higher depending on if you are making images for the web or for print. It also helps if they are large enough to scan an A4 page. I currently don't have a working scanner, so for the video I took photos, which isn't as easy, but can work well, if you are taking photos, just make sure you have lots of direct light. PT
its really fun to watch you, how smallest things make differences. your rendering style , your techniques of making presentation really help me with m presentation.
This video series is absolutely incredible! I am a high school student working on a start up business and these videos have given me much needed information that the engineering courses I have taken never taught me. Thank you so much for this free content, it is extremely useful!
Working in an Industrial design consultancy this summer, so this was extremely helpful as i will be meeting clients often to present ideas, great video keep up the good work
Your use of background squares is truly genius, and inspiring! I personally don't like your use of hard lines for the shadow thought, find it distracting. Great series! Nicely done! Looking forward to keep watching.
i found your channel about an hour ago, i have never studied product design but im going to hopefully be studying it at A level over the next 2 years from september. these videos are very interesting and clear, hopefully they will come into use for me in the near future, nice one!
Dude your channel is amazing. You talk just what i need to hear. Can you make a video showing you drawing in real time. I think it would help a lot of people. :)
Presentation is everything, just like learning, if the material is not presented well or clearly, you won't learn anything. Channels like producttank makes learning new skills so easily. RUclips is the future of learning :)
Thanks for these, I'm getting back into design 8 years after graduating and classically worried too much about Solidworks, storytelling is the one, thanks for the vids!
I love these videos, honestly I have a tech studies class and a graphic design class and these videos teach me more than both of them :P thank you so much for these they're amazing concise lessons which work brilliantly :D
Just got 98% on my A2 CW designing and making a contemporary modular workspace for student gamers! No doubt down to some great inspiration from PT and a hell of a lot of hardwork. Thanks for everything PT and PLEASE keep making these brilliant videos, My PDesign teacher loves them!!! (he used the vegetable peeler one in a few different lessons with his classes XD)
Hi Oliver, awesome work on the 98%, sorry for not replying sooner, but my broadband died. Thanks so much for sharing my series, there's another one on its way! PT
@bettyxox2, For quite a while I have been making all the music for my videos in GarageBand, so that's me in the video saying 'think sketch render present.... Refinement.'
Hi Barry, it's available here: producttank.bandcamp.com/releases Track 14 or 15, I haven't made it into a full song, but might add some more lyrics at a later date. PT
Great tips, thanks a lot. Keep up with the good work. Also if you can do video with some complex product where multiple components could be shown in exploded view. Thanks
daaaamn I like it soo haaard I am 18 years old and I Love sketching but I am not the best but with youre helpful video I will get better!!!! Thank You!!!
Hi Bharadwaj, I'm sorry for not replying sooner, but my broadband died and I haven't had an Internet connection for a while. The brown paper was in a sketch book bought from an art shop, it's called Artway paper. You can also use brown parcel paper, which you can buy in rolls. PT
I am just learning product design and looking at your videos all over again to take notes this time.The part about materials you talked about not being expensive I agree with that when it comes to this field. I like the idea of using crayons since they are cheap and can work out really well like you displayed in your video. How would you go about using crayons for your design work such as shadows, highlighting, etc..
Hi, I used the crayons as a demonstration that you can use anything, you could use them for shadows and highlights as you can rub them to blend them for shadows and scrape them back to remove areas and create highlights adding white, but using pencils and markers will ultimately give you more professional results.
This video is great. Thank you so much. However I have been taught that we should draw fast because we get good strokes that way. Do you mean when one starts drawing initially one should be slow?
Hi Harshika, Only going on what I have found, watching RUclips videos of speeded up footage tricks you into thinking you need to draw fast, when this isn't the case. I suppose everyone has their own speed and dropping that normal speed just a little will improve accuracy. But then everyone has a different style as well and speed contributes to that style, so you have to find what works for you. You can draw a slow line and speed it up at the end to create the nice fading out 'flick' your tutors were probably trying to get you to create. I should have defined 'slow' a bit better. I guess there's a happy medium, not so slow your drawing takes twice as long and not so fast you make mistakes. There's also slow down as in picture the line in your head first before drawing it. All of this is when you start drawing as once you get good, you find your own way at your own pace and it just comes more naturally. Hope this helps. PT
producttank Yes. Sounds true. And your advice about visualising what to draw first before actually drawing is also good. We strive to achieve the 0-1- 0 intensity of a stroke while sketching in college. Thank you :)
Hi Andre, my videos take a long time to make and I have the rest of the series to finish first. If you like you can send me a message/email through RUclips with what you're specifically finding hard and I'll see if I can help. PT
producttank Hi man! I struggling right now with proportions. It´s a great topic for yacht designing, I hope you talk about proportions someday! Keep on doing your videos, they are of huge learning value.
Hi Charlie, I'm just using standard printer paper at A4 or A3, I have never bought special paper for sketching and marker rendering, I just use standard universal copy paper, 75g/m2 that I buy in 500 sheet packs. I have never had a problem with bleed etc.
Two things...Should I draw big, or small? I get all choppy like you stated when I draw big..Not because I'm unsure, but because I simply can't control fine lines....But when I draw small, everything looks wonderful, but cramped, therefore, no details. "slow down your sketch" Looking at Hemu Rahman. Calls them "tutorials", but I think they just use youtube as a live portfolio medium. They take zero time to show HOW to do it..They speed through it, make it look pretty, tell us what colors they use, then that's it. Tutorials on here are a huge joke. But you, my friend, have a serene as hell voice...I like how you're thorough and explain things clearly.
You might say "did you watch the video, I said draw big, idiot"...I just wanted to explain why I can't draw big....Maybe there is a happy medium I don't know about?
Hi Adrian, there is a happy medium. I sketch small to generate lots of concepts as sketching small is fast. If you sketch small and then choose your favourites, then enlarge these on a photocopier, or with a scanner or camera and printer, or even an artists pantograph, you can use them as an underlay to trace the outline, clean up the lines and add detail. With practise this gets better and easier. Hope this helps. PT
Damn, someone who actually comments on old videos. I commend you. I have a small issue with accuracy, especially when drawing big. I see most tutorialists making an arc, then going over that same arc with pin point precision. I practice and practice and practice, yet I can't do it. Am I condemned to the "messy" design style? I see a lot of U.S/European designers using clean lines and arcs, whereas the asians typically use thin pens and have a ton of lines flying everywhere. I feel like that is more my style, however, as I work to build my portfolio for school applications, people tell me it's too "sloppy"...But I feel most comfortable designing like that, and when I DO try to keep things clean, it ruins my flow and knocks everything out of perspective. I don't know man, I'm just nervous that I won't get into any design school, even though my ideas are killers, people tell me my work is too sloppy and I won't get picked over someone who does pin perfect lines. *sigh*. I knew I should have stayed a business major.
Who's saying your sketches are too sloppy? If they know their stuff, then you should pay attention, but you should see some of the sketches produced by leading product designers, I would definitely describe these as sloppy, but also they communicate really well. There's the key, it's all about communication. There's nothing wrong with lots of lines flying everywhere, it comes down to personal taste as long as what you have drawn communicates really well I wouldn't worry too much. It's natural for everyone to get nervous and start looking for problems in their work when they know they are going to be judged, I still do this today. Everything I've ever done can be improved, but as long as your sketches no matter how messy tell the story and allow you to present your designs, then killer ideas will beat bad ideas drawn really well every time. PT
Well, product design professors, and other former students. They aren't neat and tidy, with tight lines. They're more like...Chicken scratch that explain what the product should do in a less visually appealing way, but looks like a 2 year old had a seizure with a pen in hand. The problem is, I love the research and testing side of product design, materials, fabrics, imagining a product...But my drawing skills just don't seem up to snuff, especially when compared to transfer students. And that is what will kill me. I can't get into a PD field unless I have the degree and the drawing/portfolio ability, and to have those, you need to draw, but I careless about the drawing aspect, I'd much rather have a rudimentary design, and then give it to a more experienced artist to draw out a "pretty picture". I don't know, I could send you over an image if youtube messaging allows images.
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. I love you videos! I do want to ask, is it okay to make a 3D model and skip the sketching part if you are working on directly with a engineer/manufacturer rather than a client or an employer? or is a potential down fall doing 3d modeling
Hi Matt, glad you like the videos. There are no set rules to getting anything manufactured and designers are always looking for techniques/processes to get to manufacture as fast as possible, without making costly mistakes and that's really the key. Certainly skipping the sketching phase would save some time, but it depends on what your designing and how confident you are with the software. What a lot of designers find is that sketching gives them the freedom to quickly draw out lots of forms, where as CAD for some reason can narrow down the variety of shapes you produce, so for me, no matter how time critical a project is, I will always sketch at some point. It may be better for your project to block out the forms in CAD with an engineer to create hard points to test and design around. You could then have rapid prototypes made to test feasibility and once they are approved, then use sketching to get an idea of form or even build plasticine/clay around the prototypes to work out the form. All depends on the project, sometimes different steps are necessary depending on how electronic or mechanical etc it is. PT
Hey AS, thanks for getting in touch. I haven't gone away, so if you have any questions etc fire away. In terms of videos, I hear you, I have big plans but just have to find the time, hopefully next year will see my return. PT
For scanning drawings to edit in photoshop do I need to spend a lot of money on an expensive scanner or would something like the ones on amazon (around £45) work well enough?
Hi Fred, as long as you don't press too hard you can rub out blue pencil and if you go over the top of it with markers it does get incorporated and blends in a bit, where a pencil line wouldn't. I guess it depends how good you are at drawing and how confident you feel on the day. Sometimes I feel confident enough to jump straight into sketching with a biro or fine liner, other times I'll start with a blue pencil. Its easier to jump straight in to biro if the product you are designing is simple. If it's something complicated and you want to plan the composition of your presentation sheet first, then a blue pencil works for me. As I say in the video, there are no rules, it's what ever works for you and I can only show you what's worked for me. I also cover using a sketch that's gone wrong as an underlay, which is another method and means you don't need to use a blue pencil at all. I guess I'm trying to cater for people with a whole range of skill levels, so if you are really good at sketching design concepts, this video is probably too basic for you, although I hope it's still a good watch. PT
Hi David, I use derwent water colour pencils the most, you can really get concentrated colour from them. I've noted all the materials I've used in the left hand corner of the video as its being played. I'm not sure where your based, but you can get them easily on Amazon. PT
Hello producttank. I am an A2 Level Product Design student who really needs to up his game on sketching and illustration to have the best chance of getting an A or A* grade. Are there any drawing / sketching courses you would suggest?
Hi Kieren, I haven't done any sketching courses, so wouldn't be able to recommend any, but there are lots of sketching tutorials on RUclips that I think are good. For short examples, watch Yo from core77 and spencer nugent. The biggest thing is practise, just keep drawing and you will get better. If you are struggling, copy a product design sketch (google images) and then analyse what you could improve and keep revising it and improving it. It isn't easy and there are times when you could get disheartened, in my videos (I've done another on sketching) I give a few tips to help, but honestly, lots of practise and not giving up is the key. Hope this helps. PT
As a 3rd year student on Product Design I have to say that I agree 100% with anything you said and explaining the fears that people have when trying to sketch.
You are truly an inspiring person.
Thank you Angelo, good luck in your final year. PT
Hi! just wanted to say i love how clear and calm you explain and share your knowledge for all of us. I really hope you keep posting videos like this!
This is a 2015 video, and I’m watching it with complete focus in 2018- your videos are crisp, to the point with just the right amount of humour and light hearted tone, and the sketches you work with seem to be real products, which makes it much more interesting. You really put in efforts for the transitions, the B roll videos, the music.
Not only your content is awesome, but your video presentation is too!
You are awesome!
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Something incredibly calming about your videos. Hugely motivating! Thank you!
I am a French student in product design in Paris. I discovered by chance your RUclips channel that I find exciting. I find your way to explain very educational. In addition, you speak slowly and surely, which allows a French like me to understand your English easily and progress in passing! All your advice is extremely constructive and useful. I advised all my class to watch your videos, because these valuable tips will benefit us all our schooling and even after ...Continue to enrich us with this quality content! And especially,
THANK YOU !
I've been working in the industry for a long time and decided to improve my drawing skills as my new year's resolution. I'm guilty of the non-confident line drawings and your video has given me a new perspective and understanding of what I need to do. Thank you!
These videos are one of my personal highlight during the month, thanks much!
It's good to see someone using colored pencils when rendering. Great video, congrats!
@Tom Walker, for some reason, I can't reply to your comment. You don't need an expensive scanner, the ones on eBay should be fine as long as they are a flat bed and can scan at a good resolution, 600dpi or higher depending on if you are making images for the web or for print. It also helps if they are large enough to scan an A4 page. I currently don't have a working scanner, so for the video I took photos, which isn't as easy, but can work well, if you are taking photos, just make sure you have lots of direct light. PT
I love how you create songs for your videos, there so catchy!!
Haha you're like the yoda of product design :)
lol
its really fun to watch you, how smallest things make differences. your rendering style , your techniques of making presentation really help me with m presentation.
you have mentioned true points. Like the simplicity in your description.
Great video, mate! Thanks for sharing! Thumb UP!
Hey, I'm a Year 11 student in Melbourne, Australia working to become an Industrial Designer and your videos help me a lot. Thank you.
are you an industrial designer yet
your videos are so inspiration!
thumbs up!
Thumbs up, these series of videos are pretty amazing. Go on!
This video series is absolutely incredible! I am a high school student working on a start up business and these videos have given me much needed information that the engineering courses I have taken never taught me. Thank you so much for this free content, it is extremely useful!
Thanks Drake, glad they're useful
omg, i am also a highschool student working on a startup! what startup, and what grade are you in?
lol same
I'm a Junior but I'm graduating early. Mr. S How about you?
Working in an Industrial design consultancy this summer, so this was extremely helpful as i will be meeting clients often to present ideas, great video keep up the good work
LOL great minds think alike! Love your version of Squiddy
Your use of background squares is truly genius, and inspiring! I personally don't like your use of hard lines for the shadow thought, find it distracting. Great series! Nicely done! Looking forward to keep watching.
i found your channel about an hour ago, i have never studied product design but im going to hopefully be studying it at A level over the next 2 years from september. these videos are very interesting and clear, hopefully they will come into use for me in the near future, nice one!
Great work! Very thanks for the inspiration and all the skills showed.
very useful, crisp and exact. Thank you! youtube needs such a specific channels :)
This is awesome! Really good explanations
Great content in these videos.
Thank you very much for the video!!!!!!! I love it!
These videos are brilliant, great job.
Dude your channel is amazing. You talk just what i need to hear. Can you make a video showing you drawing in real time. I think it would help a lot of people. :)
I learned in this episode more then in 4 years school... Thank you!
Presentation is everything, just like learning, if the material is not presented well or clearly, you won't learn anything. Channels like producttank makes learning new skills so easily. RUclips is the future of learning :)
Great advices! Love your videos!
Hope you have more to show! 👍🏻
Thanks for these, I'm getting back into design 8 years after graduating and classically worried too much about Solidworks, storytelling is the one, thanks for the vids!
Thanks, buddy. I was thinking about to shift in digital media but now I'm happy with my sketching ability.
I really love your videos. And this one really puts me in the mood to sketch stuff right now. Thank you!
omfg 9:10 that background sound.god i love how hilarious you are.
Another great, well explained video! :)
I really want to congratulate you! your videos and points of view are amazing. now i feel inspire to create! thanks for doing this.
incredible!!!! thanks for doing this video
Great episode. As an Industrial Design student I find these extremely helpful. Waiting for the next one! :)
I love these videos, honestly I have a tech studies class and a graphic design class and these videos teach me more than both of them :P thank you so much for these they're amazing concise lessons which work brilliantly :D
What pens do you use in this video , and grate video
Thanks for sharing!
Just got 98% on my A2 CW designing and making a contemporary modular workspace for student gamers! No doubt down to some great inspiration from PT and a hell of a lot of hardwork. Thanks for everything PT and PLEASE keep making these brilliant videos, My PDesign teacher loves them!!! (he used the vegetable peeler one in a few different lessons with his classes XD)
Hi Oliver, awesome work on the 98%, sorry for not replying sooner, but my broadband died. Thanks so much for sharing my series, there's another one on its way! PT
Thanks for your share
sooow much info, so much I can use... thanks!
thank you for your videos . i wait your part four :)
The perfect one for beginners and medievals¡
Think sketch render present
Omg! Is that a real song? What is it called. I want to share it with my PD class mates.
@bettyxox2, For quite a while I have been making all the music for my videos in GarageBand, so that's me in the video saying 'think sketch render present.... Refinement.'
+producttank You need to release it as a separate song! It's brilliant haha, product designers never have music inspired by their work :'D
Hi Barry, it's available here:
producttank.bandcamp.com/releases
Track 14 or 15, I haven't made it into a full song, but might add some more lyrics at a later date. PT
Yes! Thank you haha
omg I love this video watch this all day!!!!!!
Helps so much with GCSE design, love the videos and starwars reference!!!!
ur video is so great, I learned a lot from it, thanks!
sir . thank you very much , this video has been my favorite video of all , ill practice until my communication reach a pro level thanks a lot again .
Great tips, thanks a lot. Keep up with the good work. Also if you can do video with some complex product where multiple components could be shown in exploded view.
Thanks
daaaamn I like it soo haaard
I am 18 years old and I Love sketching but I am not the best but with youre helpful video I will get better!!!!
Thank You!!!
You are my Hero!
Great video, really helpful!
thank you so much !
I have a lot of problems sketching . You delighted me :)
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What was the brown paper you drew the hair blower on at the end? Does it have a name?
Great video, thanks!
Hi Bharadwaj, I'm sorry for not replying sooner, but my broadband died and I haven't had an Internet connection for a while. The brown paper was in a sketch book bought from an art shop, it's called Artway paper. You can also use brown parcel paper, which you can buy in rolls. PT
hey, pt wat was that song, that played in the background, think sketch render present.could i have a name.Also awesome work.
9:10 DUDE I NEED THAT SONG HAHAHAHA
@producttank no way that's like a proper hit!!
thanks Bettyxox2
It really helps a lot. thx.
Great videos... thank you :D
I am just learning product design and looking at your videos all over again to take notes this time.The part about materials you talked about not being expensive I agree with that when it comes to this field. I like the idea of using crayons since they are cheap and can work out really well like you displayed in your video. How would you go about using crayons for your design work such as shadows, highlighting, etc..
Hi, I used the crayons as a demonstration that you can use anything, you could use them for shadows and highlights as you can rub them to blend them for shadows and scrape them back to remove areas and create highlights adding white, but using pencils and markers will ultimately give you more professional results.
Thanks producttank I will have to invest in some markers.
Thank you so much! This was an extremely informative video.
Your sketches are amazing 😭
This video is great. Thank you so much. However I have been taught that we should draw fast because we get good strokes that way. Do you mean when one starts drawing initially one should be slow?
Hi Harshika, Only going on what I have found, watching RUclips videos of speeded up footage tricks you into thinking you need to draw fast, when this isn't the case. I suppose everyone has their own speed and dropping that normal speed just a little will improve accuracy. But then everyone has a different style as well and speed contributes to that style, so you have to find what works for you. You can draw a slow line and speed it up at the end to create the nice fading out 'flick' your tutors were probably trying to get you to create. I should have defined 'slow' a bit better. I guess there's a happy medium, not so slow your drawing takes twice as long and not so fast you make mistakes. There's also slow down as in picture the line in your head first before drawing it. All of this is when you start drawing as once you get good, you find your own way at your own pace and it just comes more naturally. Hope this helps. PT
producttank Yes. Sounds true. And your advice about visualising what to draw first before actually drawing is also good. We strive to achieve the 0-1- 0 intensity of a stroke while sketching in college. Thank you :)
we need more such videos
I love your little songs so much
Are you on Twitter? Excellent video - will be showing my GCSE/A level classes asap. Thanks.
Hi Kieran, thanks for sharing my video with your class, I'm not on Twitter, just not something I've got into. PT
Not a fan of social media but Twitter is excellent for education. I put a tweet out and a link to this video 👍🏻
Thank you, much appreciated. 😀
what even is that pencil hold??? this some next level stuff
Love these vids, what do you think of designing sports gear/clothing? :)
Nice video anyway
Can you make a video about conveying a brief about boat and sailboat design?
Hi Andre, my videos take a long time to make and I have the rest of the series to finish first. If you like you can send me a message/email through RUclips with what you're specifically finding hard and I'll see if I can help. PT
producttank Hi man! I struggling right now with proportions. It´s a great topic for yacht designing, I hope you talk about proportions someday! Keep on doing your videos, they are of huge learning value.
Please suggest some youtube videos on product sketching
Have a look at Spencer Nugent and Michael DiTullo's RUclips channels, both excellent product designers and sketchers
nice.
Great video, what paper do you use for promarkers?
Hi Charlie, I'm just using standard printer paper at A4 or A3, I have never bought special paper for sketching and marker rendering, I just use standard universal copy paper, 75g/m2 that I buy in 500 sheet packs. I have never had a problem with bleed etc.
producttank Thanks ill bear that in mind, I have had some issues in the past with bleed on copy paper with pro markers but ill give it another try
thank you thank you thank you!!!
Wow
thank you so much! ☺
5:18 when they tell me cube-pocky-balls don't exist.
Two things...Should I draw big, or small?
I get all choppy like you stated when I draw big..Not because I'm unsure, but because I simply can't control fine lines....But when I draw small, everything looks wonderful, but cramped, therefore, no details.
"slow down your sketch"
Looking at Hemu Rahman.
Calls them "tutorials", but I think they just use youtube as a live portfolio medium. They take zero time to show HOW to do it..They speed through it, make it look pretty, tell us what colors they use, then that's it.
Tutorials on here are a huge joke.
But you, my friend, have a serene as hell voice...I like how you're thorough and explain things clearly.
You might say "did you watch the video, I said draw big, idiot"...I just wanted to explain why I can't draw big....Maybe there is a happy medium I don't know about?
Hi Adrian, there is a happy medium. I sketch small to generate lots of concepts as sketching small is fast. If you sketch small and then choose your favourites, then enlarge these on a photocopier, or with a scanner or camera and printer, or even an artists pantograph, you can use them as an underlay to trace the outline, clean up the lines and add detail. With practise this gets better and easier. Hope this helps. PT
Damn, someone who actually comments on old videos. I commend you.
I have a small issue with accuracy, especially when drawing big. I see most tutorialists making an arc, then going over that same arc with pin point precision.
I practice and practice and practice, yet I can't do it. Am I condemned to the "messy" design style? I see a lot of U.S/European designers using clean lines and arcs, whereas the asians typically use thin pens and have a ton of lines flying everywhere.
I feel like that is more my style, however, as I work to build my portfolio for school applications, people tell me it's too "sloppy"...But I feel most comfortable designing like that, and when I DO try to keep things clean, it ruins my flow and knocks everything out of perspective.
I don't know man, I'm just nervous that I won't get into any design school, even though my ideas are killers, people tell me my work is too sloppy and I won't get picked over someone who does pin perfect lines.
*sigh*. I knew I should have stayed a business major.
Who's saying your sketches are too sloppy? If they know their stuff, then you should pay attention, but you should see some of the sketches produced by leading product designers, I would definitely describe these as sloppy, but also they communicate really well. There's the key, it's all about communication. There's nothing wrong with lots of lines flying everywhere, it comes down to personal taste as long as what you have drawn communicates really well I wouldn't worry too much. It's natural for everyone to get nervous and start looking for problems in their work when they know they are going to be judged, I still do this today. Everything I've ever done can be improved, but as long as your sketches no matter how messy tell the story and allow you to present your designs, then killer ideas will beat bad ideas drawn really well every time. PT
Well, product design professors, and other former students.
They aren't neat and tidy, with tight lines. They're more like...Chicken scratch that explain what the product should do in a less visually appealing way, but looks like a 2 year old had a seizure with a pen in hand.
The problem is, I love the research and testing side of product design, materials, fabrics, imagining a product...But my drawing skills just don't seem up to snuff, especially when compared to transfer students. And that is what will kill me. I can't get into a PD field unless I have the degree and the drawing/portfolio ability, and to have those, you need to draw, but I careless about the drawing aspect, I'd much rather have a rudimentary design, and then give it to a more experienced artist to draw out a "pretty picture".
I don't know, I could send you over an image if youtube messaging allows images.
Thank you!! It's really helpful
It's great man it's great
Overall I liked your video very much, but it will be good if u sound More excited. thank you.
Thanks Long Distant Designer :D !!!!
You help me a lot. Thank you
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. I love you videos! I do want to ask, is it okay to make a 3D model and skip the sketching part if you are working on directly with a engineer/manufacturer rather than a client or an employer? or is a potential down fall doing 3d modeling
Hi Matt, glad you like the videos. There are no set rules to getting anything manufactured and designers are always looking for techniques/processes to get to manufacture as fast as possible, without making costly mistakes and that's really the key. Certainly skipping the sketching phase would save some time, but it depends on what your designing and how confident you are with the software. What a lot of designers find is that sketching gives them the freedom to quickly draw out lots of forms, where as CAD for some reason can narrow down the variety of shapes you produce, so for me, no matter how time critical a project is, I will always sketch at some point. It may be better for your project to block out the forms in CAD with an engineer to create hard points to test and design around. You could then have rapid prototypes made to test feasibility and once they are approved, then use sketching to get an idea of form or even build plasticine/clay around the prototypes to work out the form. All depends on the project, sometimes different steps are necessary depending on how electronic or mechanical etc it is. PT
producttank Thank you so much for taking the time to reply! Your advice is gold to someone like me!
I like the background song
Haha, That's a great ID song you've got there. Is it an original?
Indeed it is spacemansabs. PT
Please come back....
Hey AS, thanks for getting in touch. I haven't gone away, so if you have any questions etc fire away. In terms of videos, I hear you, I have big plans but just have to find the time, hopefully next year will see my return. PT
Thank you so much bro ..
For scanning drawings to edit in photoshop do I need to spend a lot of money on an expensive scanner or would something like the ones on amazon (around £45) work well enough?
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Hi there, you can't rub out a blue pencil so why not start straight away in pen?
Probably cause colour pencils are much softer than any pen can get. Also, he's going over with his markers and many pens smudge under markers :)
Hi Fred, as long as you don't press too hard you can rub out blue pencil and if you go over the top of it with markers it does get incorporated and blends in a bit, where a pencil line wouldn't. I guess it depends how good you are at drawing and how confident you feel on the day. Sometimes I feel confident enough to jump straight into sketching with a biro or fine liner, other times I'll start with a blue pencil. Its easier to jump straight in to biro if the product you are designing is simple. If it's something complicated and you want to plan the composition of your presentation sheet first, then a blue pencil works for me. As I say in the video, there are no rules, it's what ever works for you and I can only show you what's worked for me. I also cover using a sketch that's gone wrong as an underlay, which is another method and means you don't need to use a blue pencil at all. I guess I'm trying to cater for people with a whole range of skill levels, so if you are really good at sketching design concepts, this video is probably too basic for you, although I hope it's still a good watch. PT
i never render my sketches with coulours jus a pen or highlighter
but super cool vid bro
love this song
What kind of pencil crayons do you use?
Hi David, I use derwent water colour pencils the most, you can really get concentrated colour from them. I've noted all the materials I've used in the left hand corner of the video as its being played. I'm not sure where your based, but you can get them easily on Amazon. PT
Thanks. Keep up the good work.
why blue sketching pencil?
Hello producttank. I am an A2 Level Product Design student who really needs to up his game on sketching and illustration to have the best chance of getting an A or A* grade. Are there any drawing / sketching courses you would suggest?
Hi Kieren, I haven't done any sketching courses, so wouldn't be able to recommend any, but there are lots of sketching tutorials on RUclips that I think are good. For short examples, watch Yo from core77 and spencer nugent. The biggest thing is practise, just keep drawing and you will get better. If you are struggling, copy a product design sketch (google images) and then analyse what you could improve and keep revising it and improving it. It isn't easy and there are times when you could get disheartened, in my videos (I've done another on sketching) I give a few tips to help, but honestly, lots of practise and not giving up is the key. Hope this helps. PT
do you have patent for any of your drawings or prototypes?
Hi Michael, I don't patent any of the prototypes shown in my series. PT