Looking For Feedback

Hey Sumi,

Your sketches are really improving, keep up the hard work! The very last page is getting to a nice point, your line-weight is consistent and is starting to pop your sketches off the page.

A few things to look out for:

  1. Hierarchy: This can be done in a few ways, Size, Detail, Color, etc. - The goal is to communicate what is important to the person looking at your sketches.

Ex: 3 Sketches on the page - 1 small, 1 medium and 1 large - in terms of size on the page. Generally I think this should also correlate with detail, color, and lineweight strength. So the largest should have the most amount of detail (otherwise, why is it the largest?) lineweight, color, etc. If all of the sketches on your page are the same size, and same level of detail they tend to fade into the paper and make it difficult to digest as a viewer.

  1. For your product design 1 ideation sketches you’ve gotta loosen up! These need to be very different types of sketches from your drawing classes. In sketching to find the best design for your projects, the ideas are most important. In sketching for your drawing classes the design matters much less and the drawing itself is the most important. Ideally you want to be able to pick up a pencil and jot down sketches from your head on the problems you’re trying to solve, not thinking about the perspective and quality of the drawing for your design studio classes. Later, when you find the right idea you can perfect the drawing, but for now focus on the big ideas, and don’t forget to call them out on the page!

I hope that’s helpful,
Aaron