How to draw better product design using the Y-axis | Concept App on iPad | Product Design Sketching
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Hey guys, welcome to thedesignsketchbook.com.
And today we get inspired by this JOBY Tripod, for our tutorial of the day: how to draw with the Y-axis.
I'm going to use my iPad and I'm opening the app Concepts. And we are going to import this sketch into the apps. And this is where I will give you some comments just drawing on top of the sketch.
Here we go taking the picture.
Use photos, and upload new documents. And that's it. So now I can draw on top of it to give you some more comments on the sketch.
Before getting started, what I like to do with the iPad is to use the glove. These are specific gloves that help you to avoid palm conflict. When I draw on it, like without it, I tend to have a conflict with my palm, I tried to draw with the pencil.
So the y axis as you can see here with the arrow, is actually what is giving helping me to look for the direction of the object when I draw it. And whenever I draw I always keep that in mind because it helps you to better see in three dimensions.
And the y axis as you can see is actually here at the center of the small cylinder. And this is what is once again helping me to visualize it. And what you need to understand is that the y axis is part of the tree axis like the X, the Y, and Z.
Actually, what I like to visualize is to see at the corner of the cube, it's like I am drawing the cube right here.
Here we go. As you can see here, there are eight corners, eight corners, are actually eight opportunities to visualize x y z axis, as you can see here,
X, y and z. Basically, the x is horizontal, the Y is vertical and the Z How deep is your object.
Another corner, the same thing XYZ, you can see that the x are both shared of the same line and the Z goes to the same direction the Y goes in the same direction as well
Another corner.
And when you draw in perspective, try to visualize x y z axis. This is what it's going to help us, to do much faster without using all the perspective lines using the horizon line. But you need to learn from when you're a beginner. They are all related to the basic fundamentals of perspective.
So this is why I invite you to go to the cube mania challenge and the Designer Starter Kit as well to really have this to build that vision in 3d to build that vision in perspective, which is going to become intuitive, whenever like you're going to practice with the X, Y and Z as you can see, we go on both positive and negative directions like the Z is going towards us and further from us the X goes on the left and the right and the y goes to the bottom and also to the sky I would say.
So, now we can also see here on the tops of face of the cube. I really like this wheel of color from Concepts.
So, I invite you to make it a try. Take a piece of paper Java cube and also identify this x y z axis on each of the eight corners. Take it as a game!
So, you can take your hand and with your thumbs and your two fingers try to visualize with x y z axis and rotate it and when you do that, try to visualize the entire cube which is turning.
Like the corner of the cube is represented by your hand.
Alright,
Let's zoom below.
So, for a cylinder basically, the y axis is mostly represented by the minor axis, which is giving you the direction of the cylinder. Here we go. I like to draw the arrow with a small cone because it helped me to better visualize how in perspective it shows. And to get the x and the z axis you need to to imagine that your cylinder is inside the box.
There we go.
And you will get from the x and the z axis from the control lines of the top surface and bottom surface.
Basically, the contour lines are dividing this box in half and half. So you have four quarters. Do you see what I mean ?
The half from the x axis the half from the z axis. See here.
Can you see the X Y Z axis appear?
So all these things are actually the... I would say the mental trick or thing that you need to visualize when you draw.
The cylinder is inside the box.
So here is the top view of this box. And remember that this y axis is at the center. So I got to draw the diagonal. And the intersection of the diagonal of the square is actually this minor axis on the cylinder, it is at the center....
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Hey guys, welcome to thedesignsketchbook.com.
And today we get inspired by this JOBY Tripod, for our tutorial of the day: how to draw with the Y-axis.
I'm going to use my iPad and I'm opening the app Concepts. And we are going to import this sketch into the apps. And this is where I will give you some comments just drawing on top of the sketch.
Here we go taking the picture.
Use photos, and upload new documents. And that's it. So now I can draw on top of it to give you some more comments on the sketch.
Before getting started, what I like to do with the iPad is to use the glove. These are specific gloves that help you to avoid palm conflict. When I draw on it, like without it, I tend to have a conflict with my palm, I tried to draw with the pencil.
So the y axis as you can see here with the arrow, is actually what is giving helping me to look for the direction of the object when I draw it. And whenever I draw I always keep that in mind because it helps you to better see in three dimensions.
And the y axis as you can see is actually here at the center of the small cylinder. And this is what is once again helping me to visualize it. And what you need to understand is that the y axis is part of the tree axis like the X, the Y, and Z.
Actually, what I like to visualize is to see at the corner of the cube, it's like I am drawing the cube right here.
Here we go. As you can see here, there are eight corners, eight corners, are actually eight opportunities to visualize x y z axis, as you can see here,
X, y and z. Basically, the x is horizontal, the Y is vertical and the Z How deep is your object.
Another corner, the same thing XYZ, you can see that the x are both shared of the same line and the Z goes to the same direction the Y goes in the same direction as well
Another corner.
And when you draw in perspective, try to visualize x y z axis. This is what it's going to help us, to do much faster without using all the perspective lines using the horizon line. But you need to learn from when you're a beginner. They are all related to the basic fundamentals of perspective.
So this is why I invite you to go to the cube mania challenge and the Designer Starter Kit as well to really have this to build that vision in 3d to build that vision in perspective, which is going to become intuitive, whenever like you're going to practice with the X, Y and Z as you can see, we go on both positive and negative directions like the Z is going towards us and further from us the X goes on the left and the right and the y goes to the bottom and also to the sky I would say.
So, now we can also see here on the tops of face of the cube. I really like this wheel of color from Concepts.
So, I invite you to make it a try. Take a piece of paper Java cube and also identify this x y z axis on each of the eight corners. Take it as a game!
So, you can take your hand and with your thumbs and your two fingers try to visualize with x y z axis and rotate it and when you do that, try to visualize the entire cube which is turning.
Like the corner of the cube is represented by your hand.
Alright,
Let's zoom below.
So, for a cylinder basically, the y axis is mostly represented by the minor axis, which is giving you the direction of the cylinder. Here we go. I like to draw the arrow with a small cone because it helped me to better visualize how in perspective it shows. And to get the x and the z axis you need to to imagine that your cylinder is inside the box.
There we go.
And you will get from the x and the z axis from the control lines of the top surface and bottom surface.
Basically, the contour lines are dividing this box in half and half. So you have four quarters. Do you see what I mean ?
The half from the x axis the half from the z axis. See here.
Can you see the X Y Z axis appear?
So all these things are actually the... I would say the mental trick or thing that you need to visualize when you draw.
The cylinder is inside the box.
So here is the top view of this box. And remember that this y axis is at the center. So I got to draw the diagonal. And the intersection of the diagonal of the square is actually this minor axis on the cylinder, it is at the center....