Graphic Design Sketchbook

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Pop quiz: What type of perspective grid was used here? One-point, two-point, or 3-point? (Count the vanishing points)

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Click to download a printable template for sketching your mobile app ideas

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From Lennart Hennigs via Smashing Magazine:

Sketching enables us to explore the problem space and define the solution space at the same time. It frames our current understanding of the problem, while also helping us to figure out possible solutions.

By sketching different solutions to a problem, we can explore them without immediately committing to one of them. This gives us new insight and raises new questions. Sketching is essentially a brainstorming exercise.

Learning from sketches is based largely on the ambiguous nature of their representation. That is, they do not specify everything and lend themselves to, and encourage, various interpretations that were not consciously integrated into them by their creator.

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Sketching during lunchtime.

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Film poster process for the short film Connected . Note how in the initial poster sketches, there is minimal detail. The sketch process is a brainstorm process, and the goal is to get the ideas on paper for later review and analysis before pursuing the selected direction. Quantity over quality at this stage.

From one of the designers of the studio Barq:

"After brainstorming and sketching out various ideas, we had a meeting with the directors to agree on which path to take – to select the idea which would become the main concept for the poster. We ended up with the concept of having a poster with the two main characters (sketch highlighted in yellow). The idea is simply to show how the characters are struggling to stay on their feet, but presented in a very illustrative way rather than just using a photo"

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A creative overview of prominent designers and design movements. From the sketchbook of Jesse Loboda of Pennsylvania.

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Design process for Stack’s Music Productions company. The c & k need adjustment..:/

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Chivito.

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Graphic designer David Airey's identity design process for Henri Ehrhart, a French wine producer.

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A simple guide to picking a great color palette. No matter what the colors are, using colors that are certain distances from each other on the color wheel result in a great contrast of colors. The simple color schemes shown above are used in the most popular logos, posters, websites, paintings, and even movies and television.

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'Seismic Nudes' pen on paper by designer/illustrator Alexi K.

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Various icon and logo sketches by Mike AKA Creative Mints.

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From sketch to final typography made out of 0.01mm dots by Xavier Casalta

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Was asked to produce a logo for MilkHut productions. Proudly made these. From initial sketches through to the final versions.

Check out MilkHut right here - milkhutproductions.co.uk

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Whether you're working with pencil crayon, acrylic, or watercolor paint, using a color chart is the best way to practice your color mixing, and improve your knowledge with color theory. Shown above are two different types of color charts, which achieve similar goals. You can either print out a blank template from your computer like the ones above, or use a sketchbook with preprinted templates.

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