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How Many Sketches Should You Do in a Year? 250.

A look at Michael DiTullo's past year of sketches in this episode of Yo! C77 Sketch

By Michael DiTullo - January 11, 2017

in Yo! C77 Sketch | Sketching | Year in Review

I still can't believe 2016 is over. I thought you all might like to see every fun "free time" sketch I did in 2016. There are about 250 sketches here. I put this together to show you just how many rapid visualization exercises I do in a year. Remember, these are just my "fun sketches." This doesn't include all of the sketches I do for new product development projects I'm working on at Sound United for our Polk, Definitive Technology and BOOM brands, or the work I do for freelance clients. Obviously I can't show you those until after those products launch.

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I think it is important to sketch at a high volume so my skills are sharp and I can freely express my ideas without hesitation. A great sketch is about three things; developing an idea, communicating the idea, and inspiring others to believe in that idea. A great sketch can be incredibly persuasive.

I think of these practice sketches like training for a marathon. if you run every day, the marathon becomes just another race. If you sketch a concept everyday, the day you get that big project is just another day you generate concepts. So set yourself a goal to do just one fun sketch a day in the next year, and you will see your skills dramatically improve. Happy 2017 everyone, now get sketching!

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Yo! C77 Sketch is a monthly video series from Core77 forum moderator and prolific designer, Michael DiTullo. In these tutorials, DiTullo walks you through step by step rapid visualization and ideation techniques to improve your everyday skills. Tired of that guy in the studio who always gets his ideas picked because of his hot sketches? Learn how to beat him at his own game, because the only thing worse than a bad idea sketched well is a great idea sketched poorly.

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Chris Holstein

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Wow, these are some amazing sketches. I love that you use such a huge amount of different viewpoints and perspectives. Do you have a tutorial channel or can you recommend any?

I need and want to improve my sketching game but I need some coaching/tutoring/help because i feel that im not improving. The main difficulty im having at this point is that my lines aren't sharp, and i have a huge problem drawing circles and elipses.

Great work!

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  Chris, one thing that helped me early on was to sketch with other people who were better and worse than me. I've seen a few ID sketching clubs pop up in different cities. Maybe there are a couple of other designers you could get together with once a week for beers and sketching in your area?
  
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Aaron Tuck

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Michael, you're a machine. I wish I could sketch like this. Love the chair at about 0.02; was this for a project, or just for fun?

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  Thanks Aaron! Was this the chair you meant? That was purely for fun... though I'd love to get it into production of course :-)
  
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Also, if you want to follow along with 2017, I'm posting a for fun sketch everyday in the forums so hopefully I'll end the year with 365: http://boards.core77.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=35774

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