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The Industrial Design Prototyping Process, Part 2: Final Rendering

Balancing on-paper with digital

By Rain Noe - April 25, 2017

in Process | Sketching | Product Design

Here in Part 2 industrial designer Eric Strebel, founder of Botzen Design, has just one more step to complete before building a model of his solar charger design: Nailing that all-important final rendering.

Some of you will do this all on paper, some digitally. Strebel has developed his own workflow combining the two for greater efficiency. Here he provides some practical rendering tips including why he starts with orange and 20% grey, why black comes last, how to get gradations on paper without pastel dust getting everywhere, what's faster to do on paper vs. faster to do digitally, and more. Check it out:

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