Sketching for Product Design and AEC

Description

In this course, you will learn:

•  Product designs usually end up as complex CAD drawings before going into production.
• Sketching allows product designers to generate ideas quickly, without committing resources to any single idea.
• Kevin Henry, a product designer and educator responsible for the influential book Drawing for Product Designers, teaches beginning and intermediate students how to visualize ideas for small-scale and mass production with just a pen and paper.
• He combines explanation, illustration, animation, and hands-on demonstrations of concepts such as sketching basic shapes as well as more complex forms, creating planes, the mechanics and methods of two-point perspective, projection principles, and creating the illusion of shade and casting shadows. 
• The goal is to get students generating ideas, and sketching them as accurately as possible without inhibiting the creative process.
• Kevin explains not just how designers sketch products, but also why. 
• When you're done, check out the rest of our product design courses, which expand on advanced methods of sketching and visualization, including prototyping and computer-aided design (CAD).

Syllabus :

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course

 

1. Design Sketching Overview

• Exploring why designers sketch
• Understanding why speed is critical to design sketching
• Understanding the conversational nature of good sketching
• Exploring the relationship between sketching and the computer

 

2. Design Sketching Fundamentals

• Sketching is creating the illusion of form in space
• Sketching DNA: Points/vertices, lines/curves, and planes/surfaces
• Drawing systems overview
• The interrelationship (connection) between the systems
• Challenge: Sketch 2D geometric shapes and 3D forms
• Solution: Sketch 2D geometric shapes and 3D forms

 

3. Orthographic Projection

• What is orthographic projection?
• Exploring the nature of flatness in multiview projection
• The power and dynamics of projection
• Bridging orthographic and perspective: The rotated plan method
• Challenge: Sketch a simple 3-view orthographic of a wedge
• Solution: Sketch a simple 3-view orthographic of a wedge

 

4. Perspective Projection: Inside the Box

• The DNA of 1-point perspective
• The DNA of 2-point perspective
• The mechanics of perspective (vantage points)
• Sketching inside the box: The scaffolding analogy
• Seeing and sketching
• Manipulating forms on the fly: Altered or derived cubic forms
• Challenge: Quickly sketch a series of basic and altered cubic forms
• Solution: Quickly sketch a series of basic and altered cubic forms

 

5. Perspective Projection: Outside the Box

• Minimizing the scaffolding for quicker sketching
• The power of centerlines and projection lines (projecting to vertices and center points)
• Creating simple curved surfaces
• The circle in perspective (the ellipse)
• Creating curved surfaces
• Creating compound curved surfaces: The CAD analogy
• Challenge: Sketch a thermos
• Solution: Sketch a thermos

 

6. Finishing Touches

• The power of line: Line weights for differentiation
• The workhorses of sketching:
• Grounding forms: Suggesting light, shade, and shadow with hatching
• Projecting shadows
• The power of a frame: Vignettes
• Challenge: Sketch an asymmetrical shampoo bottle with hatch lines and a cast shadow
• Solution: Sketch an asymmetrical shampoo bottle with hatch lines and a cast shadow

 

7. Putting It All Together

• Sketching form in orthographic 2-view only: Bottle concepts
• Transitioning from orthographic to perspective: Sketching the complex form of a Pringle potato chip
• Sketching spatial designs in perspective
• Exploring form through sketching: Kitchen utensils

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