Sketching: The Basics
Sketching The Basics is a step-by-step guide for learning how to sketch. This PDF edition is available as an instant download, so you can begin practicing right away.
Written for design students and beginning designers, the book explains the essential drawing techniques used in product design. It covers perspective, ellipses, shading, materials, and digital sketching.
Book Overview
Sketching: The Basics by Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur is a practical introduction to sketching for product designers. It is the prequel to the authors’ earlier reference work and is designed for integrated use in drawing education. The chapters follow the choices and difficulties that beginning designers encounter while drawing.
This digital edition contains 204 pages and includes examples from designers and design offices around the world.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- Step-by-step guides to producing sketches, from first lines to finished drawings.
- Approaches for drawing blocks, ellipses, cylinders, spheres, and planes.
- Techniques for choosing viewpoints, including side-view, eye-level, and frog’s-eye perspective.
- Methods for expressing colour and materials, including glossy, matte, transparent, and metal surfaces.
- Tips for fast and fearless sketching, marker use, underlays, and intuitive drawing.
- Ways to place products in context with hands, people, backgrounds, and sequences.
Why This Book Matters
Sketching is a core skill in industrial design. It allows designers to record ideas, share concepts, and communicate shape clearly. This book links drawing theory with everyday practice, using case studies from international design studios to inspire young designers.
Book Details
| Author | Koos Eissen, Roselien Steur |
|---|---|
| ISBN-13 | 978 90 6369 253 7 |
| Publisher | BIS Publishers |
| Publisher Location | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Publication Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 204 |
| Format | |
| File Size | 140.2 MB |
| Language | English |
Device Compatibility
This is a digital download. No physical item will be shipped. After purchase, you can access the PDF immediately through your account.
The file works with Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, and mobile devices. It can be opened in most PDF reading applications.
FAQ
How do I get access after purchase? You will receive an instant download link after checkout.
Will a physical copy be shipped? No. This is a digital PDF edition only.
Which devices are supported? The PDF can be read on tablets, computers, smartphones, and compatible Kindle apps.
Start building your sketching skills with this practical guide.
Verified Bibliographic Details
| Title | Sketching: The Basics |
|---|---|
| Copyright | © 2011 Koos Eissen, Roselien Steur and BIS Publishers |
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