Sketching and Rendering

Sketching and rendering
What is sketching?
What is sketching?
It’s a medium
What is sketching?
It’s a medium
for thinking and exploring
What is sketching?
It’s a medium
for expressing and communicating
Why sketching?
Why sketching?
More effective than words at a glance

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Why sketching?
Why is Drawing Important?
It More
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is a (potentially fast)
effective than means
words at aofglance
communicating an idea
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The “Sure Fire”

A toy blaster that fires plastic ping-pong balls, stores several at once
inside its shell, and automatically resets with each pull of the trigger.
Ammo is loaded via the port on the top, several can be loaded at a
time. Pulling the trigger once fires a ball out of the front and after the
Why sketching?
Why is Drawing Important?
It More
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is a (potentially fast)
effective than means
words at aofglance
communicating an idea
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The “Sure Fire”

“Only a picture can carry
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A toy blaster that fires plastic ping-pong balls, stores several at once
such a volume of data in
inside its shell, and automatically resets with each pull of the trigger.
suchisasloaded
Ammo smallviaspace. ” on the top, several can be loaded at a
the port
time. Pulling the trigger once fires a ball out of the front and after the
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- Edward Tufte
Why sketching?
Better sketches are more likely to be perceived as creative ideas

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“The Influence of Sketch Quality on Perception of Product-Idea Creativity,” Kudrowitz, et. al

Why sketching?

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Why sketching?

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Why sketching?

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Why sketching?

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“..student drawing should be explicitly

recognized alongside writing, reading, and
talking as a key element in science education."
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-Science magazine
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Is this creative?
Is this creative?
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Probably.
Is this creative?
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Probably.
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As a way of thinking and exploring, you should draw

however you want to - imperfections can often lead to
inspiration.
Is this creative?
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Probably.
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As a way of thinking and exploring, you should draw

however you want to - imperfections can often lead to
inspiration.
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As a way of communicating, a good sketch can help get

the point across.
The building blocks of sketching
A visual language
A visual language
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Mental models
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Skills
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Rules
A visual language
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Mental models
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Skills
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Rules
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Practice, practice, practice

Tools: what can I use?
Tools: what can I use?
Anything!
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Tools: some “favorites”
Pens Commit to your lines!


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fine tip pen

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felt tip pen


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fine tip pen

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felt tip pen

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Pencils
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soft pencil
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white pencil
Alcohol-based ink markers Not just your ordinary marker!

Alcohol-based ink markers Not just your ordinary marker!

Paper It matters!
Tracing paper
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Marker paper
Paper It matters!
Tracing paper
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Marker paper
A visual language
Mental models
Skills
Rules
Mental models
Mental models
Draw a bike.
Mental models
Draw a bike.
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Draw a lobster.
Mental models
Visual memory games

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Architecture
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Proportion
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Necessary details
Mental models
Visual memory games

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Architecture
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Proportion
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Necessary details
Mental models
Visual memory games

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Architecture
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Proportion
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Necessary details
Mental models
Visual memory games

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Architecture
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Proportion
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Necessary details
Mental models
Visual memory games

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Architecture
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Proportion
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Necessary details
Mental models
Visual memory games

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Architecture
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Proportion
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Necessary details
Mental models
Visual memory games

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Architecture
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Proportion
•
Necessary details
Mental models
Visual memory games

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Architecture
•
Proportion
•
Necessary details
Mental models
Visual memory games

•
Architecture
•
Proportion
•
Necessary details
Mental models
Visual memory games

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Architecture
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Proportion
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Necessary details
A visual language
Mental models
Skills
Rules
Skills
Draw big.
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Skills
Draw with confidence.

Uncertainty is Visible
Skills
Draw with confidence.

Uncertainty is Visible
Uncertainty is visible!
Skills: Freehand shapes
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Lines
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Lines
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Curves
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Lines
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Curves
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Circles
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Lines
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Curves
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Circles
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Ellipses
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Lines
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Curves
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Circles
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Ellipses
Warm up with these shapes

A visual language
Mental models
Skills
Rules
Exercise!
Orient transparency horizontally (landscape)
Draw a line dividing transparency into left/right halves
Orient foam model with vertical edge facing you, and the
cylinder pointing to the right
Sketch the model on the left side of the transparency

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Rules: Before the Renaissance
“Excuse me for shouting – I thought you

Santa Trinita Maestá, by Cimabue were farther away.”
Adapted from Gahan Wilson

Rules: The Renaissance
“Perspective is nothing else than seeing a

place behind a plane of glass, quite
transparent, on the surface of which the
object behind the glass are to be drawn”
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- Leonardo Da Vinci
Rules: Perspective
Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi

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1413 AD
Exercise!
Tape transparency horizontally onto the viewer
Place the model so that it appears in the right side of the

transparency
Orient the model as for sketch #1
Trace the outline of the model on the right side of the

transparency
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tips: close one eye, look straight ahead at the model,

and don’t move your head once you start drawing
Rules: Draw what you see, not what you know
Rules: Draw what you see, not what you know
est. 9000 BC

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Sketching and rendering

More effective than words at a glance

The “Sure Fire”

The “Sure Fire”

Better sketches are more likely to be perceived as creative ideas

“The Influence of Sketch Quality on Perception of Product-Idea Creativity,” Kudrowitz, et. al

Better sketches are more likely to be perceived as creative ideas

“The Influence of Sketch Quality on Perception of Product-Idea Creativity,” Kudrowitz, et. al

Better sketches are more likely to be perceived as creative ideas

“The Influence of Sketch Quality on Perception of Product-Idea Creativity,” Kudrowitz, et. al

Better sketches are more likely to be perceived as creative ideas

“The Influence of Sketch Quality on Perception of Product-Idea Creativity,” Kudrowitz, et. al

Better sketches are more likely to be perceived as creative ideas

“..student drawing should be explicitly

“The Influence of Sketch Quality on Perception of Product-Idea Creativity,” Kudrowitz, et. al

As a way of thinking and exploring, you should draw

As a way of thinking and exploring, you should draw

As a way of communicating, a good sketch can help get

Practice, practice, practice

Pens Commit to your lines!

Pens Commit to your lines!

fine tip pen

felt tip pen

Pens Commit to your lines!

fine tip pen

felt tip pen

Alcohol-based ink markers Not just your ordinary marker!

Alcohol-based ink markers Not just your ordinary marker!

Visual memory games

Visual memory games

Visual memory games

Visual memory games

Visual memory games

Visual memory games

Visual memory games

Visual memory games

Visual memory games

Visual memory games

Draw with confidence.

Draw with confidence.

Warm up with these shapes

Orient transparency horizontally (landscape)

Draw a line dividing transparency into left/right halves

Sketch the model on the left side of the transparency

“Excuse me for shouting – I thought you

Adapted from Gahan Wilson

“Perspective is nothing else than seeing a

Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi

Tape transparency horizontally onto the viewer

Place the model so that it appears in the right side of the

Orient the model as for sketch #1

Trace the outline of the model on the right side of the

tips: close one eye, look straight ahead at the model,

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