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Form, Divide, Beautify: Design Sketching in 3 Easy Steps

Spencer Nugent takes us through a simple process in Coreskills Episode 2

By Spencer Nugent - August 24, 2016

in Sketching

As designers, we bring order to chaos.

Reduce complexity in design sketching by following this three step process: Form, Divide, Beautify. In Coreskills Episode 2, Spencer walks us through a simple strategy for getting your ideas onto paper, starting from the primitive shape, adding layers, textures and ending with a visual for communicating your ideas.

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Train yourself like the elite design athlete that you are with these warm up exercises in Coreskills Episode 1. Spencer is squeezing seven years of leading workshops and sharing sketching tutorials at Sketch-a-Day into some great tips for upping your design sketching skills—from warmups to practice exercises—to get you into prime shape for visually communicating your ideas.

Learn more about design sketching from Spencer Nugent at this September's Core77 Conference in Los Angeles. Buy your workshop ticket today!

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robert mitchell

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more please .
On the link is that YOUR site ?

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Matt Bowman

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Does anyone have an idea of the pen used for the linework? The flow looks great!

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  Looks like a Paper Mate flair felt tip pen.
  
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  Paper mate Flair Pen.
  
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So simple yet so good. Time to get the markers out.

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