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Grounding forms: Suggesting light, shade, and shadow with hatching

Grounding forms: Suggesting light, shade, and shadow with hatching

From the course: Sketching for Product Design and AEC

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Grounding forms: Suggesting light, shade, and shadow with hatching

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- Design sketches come in a variety of flavors. On the one hand there's the exploratory sketch, which is close to visual thinking as it gets. It's full of ideas as they come streaming out of the designer's mind, all of which tend to float in space, much like our ideas. On the other hand there are the explanatory sketches that are created to communicate particular aspects of a design, such as moving parts, or specific relationships between components of a design, or hard to understand assemblies. But there are instances when a designer wants to literally bring an idea down to the ground. Set it, for example, on a table top or floor to show it next to other related objects to provide a larger context, or to simply isolate it as a concept to be focused exclusively on. In these instances the fidelity, or realism of the sketch, is often raised a notch or two from the quick ideation sketch to a slightly more realistic presentation. One easy and quick way to indicate that a product is…

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