University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sketching

Overview

Videos are set up as a series that allow you to quickly go through concepts and ideas you are already familiar with. Most of the material covered in the beginning should be review from prior coursework. The main idea of these videos is to help with concept selection and generation. Many of you will hopefully use these lessons to sketch multiple concepts for a given part or system of parts, that can then be discussed and evaluated by your group, faculty, and or client. There will also be optional supplemental videos that may be particularly relevant to certain groups.

Tools and General Tips – What’s available in the lab

3D 2-Point Perspective – Cubes in 3D

Primitives – Cylinder, Cone, Sphere and Simple Addition of Primitives

This video

Complex Form – Creating complex and organic sketches

This video