You can design, but can you draw? (I can't...)
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- gramme0
I also find that simply jotting down ideas, as sort of written sketches, can help tremendously in the concept phase.
- monkeyshine0
If you are a graphic designer, web designer, etc...a good habit to get into is to carry a sketch book around with you. It doesn't matter if you "can" draw...I am no illustrator but I can render things. I have taken drawing classes and I force myself to do quick sketches of my environment. It's amazing how that visual knowledge sticks with you over time. I think it's invaluable.
- JerseyRaindog0
Also, present an idea as a sketch to a client and they can usually see 'the idea' straight away.
Present an idea as a visual created in indesign/illustrator/photoshop and the client may not even see the idea at all. They'll be looking at the fonts, the typography, your choice of colours etc and treating your visual as the finished thing.- <jimbojones
- +2clearThoughts
- Dude that's a really good point. Now I just need to learn how to sketch!nocomply
- 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."
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- invo0
I can't even design...
- 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.
- 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
- migy0
I can draw but cant design for shit
- 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.
- 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.
- Carl_Weathers0
Drawing comes first.
Start again.- wrongflashbender
- right.Carl_Weathers
- wrongKiggen
- Drawing came first for me, then art college, which led to Vis Comm which led to employment.Carl_Weathers
- that's not the only way though - design is about decision not drafting skilllukus_W
- dont they teach you drawing before design at school though if you went to college
plusminusbox - couldn't be more wrong.set
- Yo go Carl, you go!biusness