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This is the second book put out by Roselien Steur and Koos Essen, both educators who teaches design sketching. The first book Sketching (5th printing): Drawing Techniques for Product Designers was also on sketching. This book is marketed as the prequel.
The focus here is on getting the basics. There are seven chapters but in general covers techniques on drawing geometry, choosing the correct viewpoint, and adding colours and details. It's not totally basic though, some prior knowledge of perspective drawing will be extremely beneficial.
The examples provided are well illustrated and explained. There are lots of tips even for something as simple as drawing a cube, the basic building block. Every page is packed with information and beautiful designs. I like that there are a few real world case studies for each chapter.
The book could do better with a few detailed step-by-step construction of the example products, from start to finish. The way it's presented now is basically having sketches on the page, and focusing on a few parts, such as drawing rounded corners for phones and only that. The section on colouring should also be broken into steps to show how certain effects are achieved, like blending chalk with markers to get a nice gradated effect.
Overall, it's a very informative book. I'm not a product designer but I found certain sections helpful, especially the chapter on using the appropriate viewpoint to highlight product features.
(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
The focus here is on getting the basics. There are seven chapters but in general covers techniques on drawing geometry, choosing the correct viewpoint, and adding colours and details. It's not totally basic though, some prior knowledge of perspective drawing will be extremely beneficial.
The examples provided are well illustrated and explained. There are lots of tips even for something as simple as drawing a cube, the basic building block. Every page is packed with information and beautiful designs. I like that there are a few real world case studies for each chapter.
The book could do better with a few detailed step-by-step construction of the example products, from start to finish. The way it's presented now is basically having sketches on the page, and focusing on a few parts, such as drawing rounded corners for phones and only that. The section on colouring should also be broken into steps to show how certain effects are achieved, like blending chalk with markers to get a nice gradated effect.
Overall, it's a very informative book. I'm not a product designer but I found certain sections helpful, especially the chapter on using the appropriate viewpoint to highlight product features.
(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Ive just begun a course in automotive design and its a helpful book for teaching you to clean up your lines, copy marker techniques and just copy pictures from the book to give you an idea of were you are. Its well illustrated and is good quality for what you pay. I would recomend this to anyone who is begining a course in design which requires a high level of sketching to warm you up for the year ahead
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have read this book and I feel that it is the best and most comprehensive sketching book I haver ever read. It provides very simple clear basics that anyone can follow, do and use to sketch their own designs. The book is very comprehensive, with most aspects of sketching being explained to the last detail.
It provides the very simplest and yet detailed version of sketching basics and can teach beginner, student and even a experienced designer what to do and how to do it. The drawings in the book are stunning as well. Next to that it also explains the use of drawing inside the design process, which has always been a great questio with the arrival of 3D CAD software.
My feeling is that you couldn't find a better sketch book.
It provides the very simplest and yet detailed version of sketching basics and can teach beginner, student and even a experienced designer what to do and how to do it. The drawings in the book are stunning as well. Next to that it also explains the use of drawing inside the design process, which has always been a great questio with the arrival of 3D CAD software.
My feeling is that you couldn't find a better sketch book.
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