Steal the Method, Not the Drawing | Draw Your Own Product Ideas
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Industrial Design
Drawing With Strategy: Endless Ideas From One Bottle
Turn one eye drop bottle into endless design sketches. In this video, I show how a simple strategy, finding the axis, drawing the profile, revolving it, and changing one proportion, can take one object to a temple, a perfume flask, and beyond.
If you want to stop copying and start drawing your own product ideas, this method is for you.
📖 Read the full written guide: https://www.thedesignsketchbook.com/drawing-with-strategy-bottle/
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro: the bottle as inspiration
0:16 Symmetry and revolution
1:02 General to details
1:47 Playing with proportions
2:04 Stretching the neck
3:01 Strategy, not copying
4:04 From bottle to poison flask
5:10 Turning it into a temple
6:04 Endless possibilities
7:00 Learn one thing, create many
8:07 Ideas lead to other ideas
9:05 Adding clouds and architecture
10:08 Loose lines on purpose
11:00 Make babies: more ideas
11:29 Wrap-up
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Turn one eye drop bottle into endless design sketches. In this video, I show how a simple strategy, finding the axis, drawing the profile, revolving it, and changing one proportion, can take one object to a temple, a perfume flask, and beyond.
If you want to stop copying and start drawing your own product ideas, this method is for you.
📖 Read the full written guide: https://www.thedesignsketchbook.com/drawing-with-strategy-bottle/
🎁 Get the free Designer Starter Kit: https://www.thedesignsketchbook.com/sign-up-and-receive-the-ebook-the-designer-starter-kit/
✏️ Sketch Like the Pros course Waiting List: https://designsketchbook.kartra.com/page/sketch-like-the-pros-waiting-list
Chapters:
0:00 Intro: the bottle as inspiration
0:16 Symmetry and revolution
1:02 General to details
1:47 Playing with proportions
2:04 Stretching the neck
3:01 Strategy, not copying
4:04 From bottle to poison flask
5:10 Turning it into a temple
6:04 Endless possibilities
7:00 Learn one thing, create many
8:07 Ideas lead to other ideas
9:05 Adding clouds and architecture
10:08 Loose lines on purpose
11:00 Make babies: more ideas
11:29 Wrap-up
Subscribe for weekly product design sketching tutorials.
BLOG: https://www.thedesignsketchbook.com
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/thedesignsketchbook
INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/thedesignsketchbook