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Sketching for Product Design and AEC

With Kevin Henry Liked by 15,100 users
Duration: 3h 44m Skill level: Intermediate Released: 12/21/2015

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Course details

Product designs usually end up as complex CAD drawings before going into production. But they often start as sketches. Sketching allows product designers to generate ideas quickly, without committing resources to any single idea. That's why this course teaches sketching rather than drawing—focusing on speed, creativity, and iteration rather than on one precise depiction of a single concept.

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. At the end of the course, 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).

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  • Michelle Lawson Michelle Lawson

    Michelle Lawson

    Freelance Multimedia Designer | Educator

    5/5 December 5, 2023
    I love how the instructor really breaks down the how and why of perspective drawing, and the importance of sketching with fast iteration. I’m having a lot of “A-ha!” moments that are really helping me with my design processes.
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  • Jon Cederberg Jon Cederberg

    Jon Cederberg

    Architect/ Gardener with a focus on classical architecture, landscape gardens and traditional city planning

    5/5 July 26, 2023
    Gentle and engaging explanation of the process of creative sketching. I really enjoy listening to the verbalization of that I mostly just think of subconsiously.
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