When you can think through your hand like that, you can get into a “flow” where great thinking happens. This is an exercise in thinking as much as an exercise in drawing. You can go over things multiple times just don’t stop moving the pencil. But to get used to this, sit down to sketch for two minuets and never pick you pencil off the paper and never let the pencil stop moving. So when you first try to draw as fast as you think, it may be difficult. Your brain probably darts around faster than you can speak or write. Which emotion would you rather generate in yourself while you were designing a building?ĭrawing as quickly as you think is the best way to get your ideas out of you head more comfortably. When the wiggles are fluid and wavy they look expressive and confident. When the wiggles are tight and kinky, they look neurotic and insecure. And if you use your shoulder to move the pen (with your fingers merely making small course changes) then it will have a different character, one with nice curves. Also, if you primarily use your fingers and wrist to move the pen across the paper, the lines will have a certain quality because of the tight “turn radiuses” of those particular joints. When you use a straight edge, that human character is ripped away. If sketching is done by a human, it should look like a human did it. There’s a reason we go to great lengths to use parallel bars, and triangles, and CAD to draw our straight lines. Process drawings do not have to have really straight lines. That is the EASIEST and the WORST excuse to not sketch. That’s really what the three tips boil down to.ĭon’t beat yourself up for not drawing straight lines. I’ll keep everything in focus and in the frame when I make a part 2! Haha)įor sketching to really be effective, you have to be comfortable doing it. (I‘m glad you checked that out! I thought it was going to be really easy to get that shot, but setting the camera up on the table was actually pretty awkward lol. Watch this video where I describe a few tips on how to sketch: There are a few things that you should know about how to sketch so that you confidently take full advantage of its benefits in your design process. For me, it’s the process that I rely on the most in designing. Sketching is fast, generative, exploratory, and playful.
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