Drawing for Product Designers (Portfolio Skills: Product Design)

Great book with insightful tips!

Un libro difficile e molto impegnativo. Purtroppo non mi è piaciuto. Dalla copertina e dal titolo avevo immaginato qualcosa di diverso.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is new to sketching technical objects. This book is aimed at product designers, but I would also recommend it to anyone who wants to draw objects in perspective. The author covers a great deal of theory related to sketching. He discusses principles which are important to making quick sketches, which are also easily understood. This is not only a 'technique' book, it is also a theory book, with a great deal of instruction on why certain techniques work. He goes on to show you how pencil sketching is related to the newer field of 3D design on computers. There is no program-specific information, just general "Here is the pencil sketching technique and here is what it would look like in a computer 3D design program. He fills the book with real-world project examples of designs and products. He discusses orthographic projection, isometric perspective and true perspective sketching--with the focus on getting to a point where you can get your ideas across quickly in a very realistic manner. He teaches how a sketch is different from an artistic drawing and what you should focus on to get your design ideas across to collaborators on your project. There is the occasional, "What is he talking about," where I didn't really grasp his reason for starting a chapter in a certain way. An example of this is that he titles chapter five "Registration," then doesn't define registration, or even use the word registration later in the chapter. The chapter still makes sense, I get what the chapter is talking about, but I still have no idea what the definition of registration is. Nevertheless, I have been truly pleased with this book. The real-world cases are helpful and the sketching exercises all have a point or a reason or something specific to teach you. I was generally wanting more 'follow me' sketching examples, but this book ended up being something even better..."here is how you make a sketch which gets your point across and doesn't make classic mistakes." I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs to make quick sketches to get concepts across to others. This is much more than a 'how' book...it goes the extra mile or two to teach you 'why' as well.

The book helps me (as a beginner) to start sketching follow it's tutorial steps and understand the importance of sketching. Would highly recommend to ppl who want to pick up sketching as a professional skill.

This book goes really deep on the technical aspects of drawing successful products. Kevin has a huge knowledge about perspective techniques and he shows how to apply them in a variety of products and needs. I was really impressed on Kevin's ability to describe technically every little detail that he represented on paper. He also has a course on LinkedIn called "Sketching for Product Design and AEC". I highly recommend join this course as well. Thank you Kevin Henry to those incredible contribution to the industrial design!