Learn Sketching with Free Lessons & Tips

Pencil grades have three categories — B, H and F. H stands for “hard”, meaning the lead core is on the harder side of the spectrum and will make lighter marks. H pencils are good for sketching, light shading and precision work since hard pencils can keep their point sharper for longer. H shades range from H to 9H.

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It has a built-in UI kit for iOS, Android, and Windows, which makes designing for those platforms much easier. Adobe XD also has a robust prototyping feature that allows you to create interactive designs that simulate real-life scenarios. However, if you're designing for the web, Sketch might be the better choice

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Sketch is great for website design. I’ve been using it for the past couple of years for website and mobile design, as well as for wireframing, basically for UI and UX. And just so you know, prior to using Sketch, I’ve been using Photoshop for 8 years, basically since I started doing design.

 

I would have used it way earlier (Sketch), but I was skeptical and I was wrong. Once I started using Sketch I was blown away of how good it was and how fast things were going just because you have some cool options at your hand. And that was important since I was and still am working on complex web and mobile platforms where you have to build a really lot of things. So I just went ahead and made Sketch my primary tool. I still use Photoshop but mainly for image editing cause personally I feel that I can work with images better in Photoshop. But when it comes to interfaces, Sketch is my “go to” tool.

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Practice. Practice maketh one perfect. side-to-side movements must be made with your pencil to shade your shape and go back over the areas which you would like to be darker. Vary the length of your pencil strokes so that they don't look too uniform and make sure that your lines are following the same direction to ensure that your shading looks even read less

To clearly communicate surface details in product design sketches, emphasize both highlights and shadows. This creates depth and definition, allowing viewers to understand the product's three-dimensionality and the shapes of its various parts. Don't omit shadows – they play a crucial role in visualizing the final product.

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