Drawing Ideas: A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design

Detailed and illustrated

I have a fairly strong art library; I live in a rural area and have to teach myself. This book is a great addition to anyone who is interested in communicating visually. Rather than focusing on HOW to draw, the primary focus of this book is (implicitly) WHY to draw. It does not give ideas on what to draw (which is at least suggested by its title). Instead, it is concerned with HOW to communicate your ideas visually, effectively, and efficiently. If you're looking for HOW to draw in an extremely effective way, try Robertson's and Bertling's "How to Draw: drawing and sketching objects and environments from your imagination." Between it and "Rapid Viz", you have the two best "how to draw" books I've found in the last ten years - and they're both available from Amazon. "Drawing Ideas" is the perfect companion volume to these two books; in my opinion, this triad - Drawing Ideas, Rapid Viz, and How to Draw - make up a complete art library. All that's left is paper, pencil, and practice . . . good sketching to you!

It was good. book cover should be light weight paper. Paper selection may be better with finer grain for better details. Message was goodenough in terms of faculties view point. More finished version of each topic would make this book better. Illustrations are well chosen butmay add more selection with balanced regions in the world. Please pursue and explore.

This book is excellent for helping me layout and execute visual stories. In my job one of my roles is to help people understand what is possible with technology which does not yet exist, telling the story is my job. Mark's different approaches and ideas are great. Additionally he shows some drawing styles I can adapt to my own style. The ideas in the book are sophisticated and subtle enough that a beginner should let it supplement other resources. For the seasoned professional who needs to brush up on drawing skills (because stock images don't always give you exactly what you need) or never had to really develop their drawing this is an excellent book. This is a book to keep revisiting and as time passes its value continues to evolve for me.

Well presented and well-bound. Geared toward product design and architecture. I was hoping more for bringing to life more science-fiction-like imagery, but I can apply what's covered within this book to that subject easily. Scott Robertson's How to Draw covers more of the stuff I'm interested in, but it is so concise and precise that it slows the read.This is a good read, from start to finish. It doesn't get bogged down with too much detail that isn't supported by relevant illustrations. I also appreciate the periodic numbered generalization pages. They're supportive and clever. Which describes the rest of the style of the book itself.It might be a textbook, but was so pleasant to read that I kept going and felt afterwards that I had a little better grasp of the process of getting the pictures in my head onto the page.

I was actually looking for this kind of practical book, showing me some real cases of designs. Learned a lot from others real works.

Wish I had bought more books like this instead of going to design school.The hundreds of drawings and sketches are worth it alone but the writing is also excellent and not fluffy. The focus is on the understanding your goals, following the process, and getting the mindset of creating sketches quickly to communicate rough ideas for further refinement. The book is loaded with great perspectives and tips on how to capture your ideas.Its great for people with no experience sketching but great for people who have been sketching for a while.This one is one of my favorites out of all the design books I've bought.

If you get it, get the print copy. The book looses too much of it's impact on the Kindle. It is nice see the full color examples in detail. Bought the kindle version for myself, liked it and bought the print version for my son (studying architecture). We both really enjoy the casual approach to creating visual sketches of ideas.

Thank you for this awesome guide book for getting ideas for art and design. Getting ideas is one of the biggest roadblock that an artist/designer faces on their every day work and making a reference guide for the same is a very important contribution. This book covers the basics of every type of design( product, fashion, animation). Note- This book doesn't give in depth process of the process of making the design in every field, but it gives you what it claims, that is how to draw ideas for your design and this has been explained in depth step by step process with texts supported by diagrams, sketches and photos. The paper quality is not glossy but its thick and the quality is good. The only thing that was disappointing was that the hardcover binding was a little damaged at the edges and also at the binding.

Muito bacana o livro, bem informativo e muito bonito. Gostei muito do acabamento diferenciado do mesmo.

This is an excellent book for those just learning to draw. The examples are simple, beautiful, and easy to follow. The 'drawing bootcamp' gets you to speed on foundational skills for drawing. It is a nice mix of technical learning as well as exercises for the imagination. If you have some latent artistic talent and a little ambition, you will be able to make drawings you are proud of using this book. It took me about a month, but I am very happy with my progress!

This book is a good grounding for product design sketching. It was particularly useful in showing how to create good layouts and to make sketches communicate to the viewer. The book has all the basics such as drop shadows, basic rendering and perspective.I recommend it however it is very heavy so is not as portable as I would like.

Wonderful ideas!