Make Easy Sketches to Get Started with Your Design Projects

Sketching is an excellent way to quickly explore concepts for a design project. It can help you develop ideas with basic layouts or outlines, and accelerate client communication and approval before working on the details.

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The Role of Sketching in the Design Process

Sketching plays different roles in the design process, depending on whether you're designing websites, brand logos, illustrations, products, or other designs. For example, product designers may spend a lot of time sketching; when designing a piece of furniture, a pair of sneakers, or a bike, the idea doesn't start on a computer, it starts on a piece of paper or with your iPad and Apple Pencil.

Regardless of your skill level, you can start developing the design concept from sketching. Start exploring and visualizing your ideas by sketching out simple shapes and elements. After that, you can start on the compositions or layouts. Once you've decided which direction you want to go, refine the sketches and add detailed drawings to complete your work.

How to Make Easy Sketches to Begin Your Design Projects

Explore Ideas and Concepts

Get started with simple drawings like basic shapes, flowers, animals, patterns, or simple cartoon characters. Sketching can help you work through different ideas and find the best presentation of those ideas by quickly generating many ideas in a short period of time.

Establish Basic Layout and Composition

Sketching helps you get an idea to begin your design project with. For website design or graphic design projects, you can quickly sketch out a layout or a series of thumbnail sketches to present your ideas.

Communicate and Get The Ideas Approved

Showing design sketches or layout composition to clients to get ideas approved can save you an enormous amount of time before getting into the details. In NoteLedge, you can easily present your work in slideshow mode or as PDFs to explain your ideas and accelerate communication.

Refine and Add Detailed Drawing

The later stages of the design process involve refinement. Once you have the design concept and layout established in sketches, it will be more efficient to move on to the desktop drawing software to refine the design in detail.

Explore Ideas and Concepts

Establish Basic Layout and Composition

Communicate and Get The Ideas Approved

Refine and Add Detailed Drawing

Easy Sketching Tips That Will Improve Your Artwork

Though making simple sketches for design projects doesn't require a high level of drawing skills, try some simple techniques to create a beautiful piece of artwork that impresses the clients. NoteLedge is the perfect app for beginners to practice drawing. With the Web Clipper, you can easily find video tutorials, step guides, drawing exercises, or online references to learn drawing. You can also use a variety of brushes for you to practice basic drawing techniques and refine your drawing skills.