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How to Get a Job as an Industrial Designer and what NOT to do Are you currently studying industrial design or looking to get into it? I remember when I was a student myself and how I would think about the careers and opportunities after graduation. Is anyone going to hire me? What do I need to do to get noticed? Investing years into an education without knowing the outcome can be stressful. In this videos on how to get a job as an industrial designer I’m going to share a couple of tips that helped me out when I...

How to Sketch Products Using This ONE Trick NO JOKE In order to sketch products correctly, there are a few things to consider. It’s not always easy in the beginning. They don’t look right. Proportions are off. Everything seems to go wrong. Well in this video I’m going to simplify things for you and have you look at products in a different way. You see most times we tend to overcomplicate things. If we take in too much information and too many details at once we get overwhelmed. Instead, if we brake stuff down into the basics and get a good...

Why I QUIT My DREAM JOB As An Industrial Designer Ever since I was 8 years old my dream was to live next to the beach and sketch cool stuff for a living. I didn’t know how to get there but I knew that’s what I wanted. Or so I thought. This is the story why I quit my dream job as an industrial designer. From what I’ve heard, not a lot of people know what they want to do when they’re 8. Most people don’t even know what they want to be when they’re 25! In that sense, I...

In this design marker review video I’ll go over 6 different marker brands and show you how well each brand blend on marker paper. I will be using 2 markers of a similar shade of each brand. Except for the Promarker since I messed that up.Summary: Prismacolor: Great marker for a specific type of sketching. Personally, I’m not a huge fan. I don’t like the fat nib since it literally blocks my view of where I’m sketching. Also the ink distribution is weird. Almost like it’s constantly going dry even though the marker itself is new. Touchnew: Great marker with vibrant colors....

Proportions! How to Sketch Products Quickly & Easily (It Gets Weird) Proportions. It’s a pain to get right sometimes isn’t it. Well it doesn’t have to be. In this video, you’ll learn how to think about proportions when sketching products and of course….cars. You want to start BIG. Explore the big elements of your products and how each element relates to another. Start with big cubes, rectangles and ellipses to get the proportions down correctly BEFORE going into detail. There is no point of adding details if the scale and proportions are off. This is why we want to start...