You can design, but can you draw? (I can't...)
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- janne760
i want to learn to draw again. i wasn't so bad at it in art school. imho.
- then you just need to practice. the old skillz will come back to you...hans_glib
- Carry a sketchbook always. Always draw. You will improve.luckyorphan
- d_rek0
Couldn't imagine ever approaching a project and not sketching out something - even in an extremely rough form.
Outside of that I love to illustrate/sketch using graphite and sometimes ink. Always keep a sketchbook handy.
I use them to inform my designs but rarely do my designs take on a hand-drawn aesthetic.
- migy0
I can draw but cant design for shit
- dyspl0
I haven't draw anything since years, but drawing is what lead me to become a graphic designer.
I was bad at school, doing doodles, cartoons caracters etc... instead of writting down what the teacher could try to teach....
I finaly went to art courses, then entered an art school. Once there I learned there was a thing called "graphic design".
- Rand0
I could when I was younger, but haven't done it in years
- OSFA0
I just draw naked portraits. Anyone interested?
- you know yo ucould regret that proposition...
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- you know yo ucould regret that proposition...
- Didsomething0
I can't draw either. Don't find it any proplem
- baseline_shift0
I wouldnt have studied design if i didnt spend my adolescence in sketchbooks. Thats how i realized i wanted to do something that utilized my visual abilities. I dont draw now as much as i used to, but im glad i got that early foundation for visual thinking.
Drawing, i think, is an important part of training your eye.
- raf0
Drawing changes your perception. You start noticing relation of things, shapes, light, distance.
I took some drawing classes very long time ago, it was interesting to see my visual imagination change in a short period of time.I can't draw though..
- bulletfactory0
I started my college career as an illustration major. Every commercial art major had to take drawing 1,2, and 3 as well as Design 1,2 and 3 as a foundation. It wasn't until my first 'commercial art' class that I even thought about design. I love drawing (though I haven't sat down to draw in a number of years - pencil, colored pencil and ink were my media of choice). I used to do a lot of watercolor back then too - My wife keeps hinting that I need to pick a brush back up.
- gramme0
I got to the point in college where I was proficient at drawing spaces, objects, and figures. These days, the only detailed drawing I do by hand is when designing logos. Everything else is loose concept sketches.
I do find that sketching with pencil and paper in the concept stage of a project frees up my mind and ideas come to me more quickly.
Doyald Young and others have said it more eloquently elsewhere, but to be able to set beautiful type, one must first be able to draw letters. It opens up new pathways of seeing and heightens one's awareness of space, balance, and form.
- gramme0
I also find that simply jotting down ideas, as sort of written sketches, can help tremendously in the concept phase.
- Ranger0
Are we talking about sketching out ideas or being able to draw to a standard that it can be used in final artwork?
- designbot0
same for me dyspl. I was always into drawing as a kid all the way up through most of highschool. It's def the reason I became a designer. I hardly ever draw anymore but would like to get back into it. I keep thinking it would be cool to integrate some hand drawings into a design some time.
- I think it can augment design for sure, but it's not a necessity to being a designer.designbot
- dyspl0
" I've got a good eye, but a bad hand, I suspect I hold the pencil incorrectly, I think I hold my fork incorrectly too. Also I can't dance."
gold !
:)
- ukit0
I can barely even write anymore.
- yeah! i type prob 10-20x faster than i write. and my hand writing is worse than it was in high schoolbaseline_shift
- mydo0
i used to draw obsessively as a kid. now i'm rubbish. but i think everyday i should learn to draw again. it would probably earn me more respect in the studio.
- bjladams0
was having this conversation earlier this morning.
i like to think i'm ok at drawing, and start pretty much every design on paper... but those are mostly geometric shapes that evolve in a grid.