From the course: Sketching for Product Design and AEC
Unlock the full course today
Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
The workhorses of sketching:
From the course: Sketching for Product Design and AEC
The workhorses of sketching:
- When discussing lines and their relative weights that help to differentiate them and communicate important information about the physical form there are three lines that do the lion share of the work, no pun intended. And they are the ghost line, which is used to build underlying structure, the scaffolding, the outline, which closes the border, so to speak, and the contour line, which delineates the interior. I want to focus on these three before discussing the other lines, because of their importance in the sketching process. We can't get a sketch started without committing lines, and so the first, and perhaps most essential is the ghost line, used to build the scaffolding. It does a lot of the heavy lifting, despite its weight, and gets little attention for it. In fact, it's literally meant to disappear when the other line weights have been adjusted. And yet, the ghost lines never truly disappear, they simply get absorbed into the sketch, which is very different than real…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Contents
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
The power of line: Line weights for differentiation5m 55s
-
The workhorses of sketching:5m 48s
-
Grounding forms: Suggesting light, shade, and shadow with hatching7m 23s
-
Projecting shadows7m 15s
-
The power of a frame: Vignettes5m 8s
-
Challenge: Sketch an asymmetrical shampoo bottle with hatch lines and a cast shadow1m
-
Solution: Sketch an asymmetrical shampoo bottle with hatch lines and a cast shadow6m 16s
-
-
-