Basics in Design

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Design Basics deals with the understanding and mastering sketching of basic shapes, color theory, typography, perspective views thereby applying them in the form of sketches. These altered sketches communicates idealization and concept of the designer to the world.

1) Doodling

Typical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available. Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, patterns, textures, or phallic scenes.

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Types of Doodles:

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Doodling as a Career:

Meet the professional doodlers around the world.

Indian Doodlers

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2) Sketching

A person who has mastered part 1) Doodling will have basic understanding of pencil types, various shapes, and helps to improve remembering capacity as it fills the gaps in their thinking, and provides a much needed reprieve loads of information they must wade through. Spontaneous drawings may also relieve psychological distress, making it easier to attend to things at ease.

More about Pencil types, Artist pencils will either be marked with a “B” or an “H”.

“B” will refer to soft graphite, and is available in the number 8B, 6B, 4B, and 2B. 8B is the softest.
“H” is going to refer to the hardness of the pencil. 8H is the hardest, and 2H is the softest.
For shading, soft pencils are probably your best choice. A soft pencil will allow you to blend your picture easily. A hard pencil is hard (no pun intended!) to shade with because it will not blend as well.
If you are using a regular school pencil, you should know that it is usually HB, which means it meets at the middle ground between hardness and softness. Still, a “B” pencil will be the easiest to work with.
Of course you will need some paper. You will find yourself having a hard time shading on paper that is either too smooth or too rough. It is helpful to invest in some good drawing paper, if you want your shading to come out nicely.

Students preparing for design exams in India used to ask "Why cant we use scale to draw faster"? Second video shares why we need to practice lines and other shapes free hand.

Mastering on how to sketch geometrical shapes helps in simplifying the images/figures by moving the whole shoulder as required is shown below and how to hold the pencil for smooth sketches,

Techniques in Shading

Pencil Shading Techniques: Hatching, Smooth Shading, Scribbling, Stippling. A series of lines at various intensity or direction drawn to get an illusion of depth to the image is known as hatching technique in pencil drawing. Three types of hatching are Linear hatching, Cross hatching, Contour hatching.