Today I wanted to show you sketches by John Fenno. I like his sketches and think that they are neat and sophisticated.

His objective is “To positively influence the lives of people through extraordinary, cost-effective, well-rounded design.”

Take a look at this interesting video where John Fenno shows a whole process of portable boat development.

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You never know what you can find on the Internet and today I found this amazing video of a sword maker who lives in Japan and has a passion for what he does.
After I have watched this video I understood that we should all just believe in ourselves and what we do. But it is not enough to like it – you have to love it, you have to have a passion for it. If you haven’t found it – keep searching for this special thing.

Just watch the video and be inspired!

Handmade Portraits: The Sword Maker

Today I have created a simple sketch and hopefully I nice one. I drew a hand vacuum cleaner from simple shapes. I wanted to focus on perspective and construction of shapes.

I really want to learn how to use pastel dust and apply this technique in my sketches. And here you can see my result. Still practicing and I hope to get better at it as soon as possible.

Materials used:

• black fine liner;
• black marker;
• pastels;
• white color pencil;
• black color pencil.

Daily inspiration galleries of shapes, products and colors.
Get inspiration from these photos – sketch, invent and look at things from a different perspective.

Piggy Power Strip by Art Lebedev Studio

A Piggy Power Strip is capable of handling 17 plugs all at once without causing fire or short circuit. It has an internal circuit breaker that will protect the user from dangers of overloading.

Light MI chandelier by Miriam Zink

Fixing wire hangers around a bulb transforms them into a ceiling  light with an interesting shadow lines.

Whirl Serving Plate by Kim Westad

Each Whirl is made one at a time, completely by hand so each one is a unique, heirloom quality piece.

Ghost Chair by Design Drift

The plexiglass chairs have ghost-like forms inside them, created with laser technology.

Aquavolo shower by Bossini

The stainless steel Aquavolo shower fixture can flip back and forth between its two functions – a waterfall shower and a rain shower.

iTree by KMKG Studio

The iTree is a high-end iPod, iPhone Docking Station – The design is just a simple tree which is hollowed out with a special technique to create an extra ordinary HiFi Sound.

Triflow Tap by Zaha Hadid

The filtered drinking water is delivered through a dedicated waterway thereby isolating it from the hot and cold water streams – controlled by the tap’s discreet handle.

This is a second day of drawing portrait. If you haven’t seen a previous article, you can view it here.

I must say that I am not a talented portrait draftsman. Of course, if I practice every day and spent many hours drawings and studying portraits, I would be good at it but that’s not my aim. Just drawing and learning.



On the day 2 I corrected some mistakes and started coloring (how “exciting”). Coloring with a pencil is not my cup of tee but I have to do it anyway because it is an assignment at academy.

Today I also drew an ear with a “how to” steps from one really good classical drawing book in Russian. It has very neat and informative pictures. Here I am adding tutorial from this book on how to construct an ear. You can save it and learn from it.

This image below I wanted to add so that you could see how it is actually happening. A male model is sitting on a chair. You can see a plaster head next to him. And I am standing and drawing on an easel. I also printed this page of ear constructing steps and while drawing and observing male’s ear, I am also looking at these “how to” steps.

A small but useful tip for today: clean you scanned sketch fast and easy.

I am sure that many of you have had problems cleaning a sketch after scanning it. I had these problems myself and tried multiple ways how to make them look presentable in Photoshop. And one day came across this very useful video of how to clean up a scanned sketch. It is super easy and a very fast way to improve a look of your drawing.

IDSKETCHING.COM: Cleaning Up a Scanned Sketch

Although, it is a great way of making you sketches look fresh, it doesn’t clean a sketch entirely. And my tip for cleaning a sketch is that after I use Layer option, I go to Image -> Adjustments -> Selective Color

After you click on Selective Color -> in a box Colors: choose Whites and reduce percentage of Black as shown in image below. Look at a sketch and decide how much black color do you want to reduce.

In my opinion it is a great way to clean up a sketch but if you have other suggestions, feel free to comment on Facebook or Twitter. At the moment comments are closed here but soon you will be able to comment.

Here is you can compare with just scanned sketch, a sketch that was edited with Layers, and sketch that was edited with Layers and Selective Colors:

I am finally uploading my sketches for the first time since July. I have been thinking about the way I sketch and came up with a conclusion that I tend to speed up the process of drawing avoiding a right way constructing a shape. That’s why my new sketches will be more careful, thought trough and hopefully better than previous ones. Of course, there will still be mistakes but it’s fine, just need to learn from these mistakes and see them.

Here are a few simple tent sketches. I wanted to focus on a construction and sections of shapes and that’s why sketches are grey and really simple. All construction lines are visible and help to understand how a shape of a tent was created.

Materials used:

• a black ballpoint pen;
• a 3B graphite pencil.

Daily inspiration galleries of shapes, products and colors.
Get inspiration from these photos – sketch, invent and look at things from a different perspective.

Polystool created from one piece of recyclable aluminum by WEdid-ID

Bamboo Perfume Bottle Design By Artist & Architect

Fiberglass chair by Vladimir Kagan

M-shape bookshelf

Time Zone LED Watch sketch by Swedish designer Anders

Disco chair by Kiwi & Pom design studio

Handmade table lamp by 7Gods architectural company

Upside-Down Mushroom Room by Carsten Höller

Came across these very cool and neat sketches of a designer Alberto Vasquez from Hungary.  His drawings and sketches are simple but so fresh and easy to perceive.

A good advise from Alberto that he wrote in his website is “During a design process I’m thinking in technology, culture and community/society when I’m analyzing problems and looking for solutions.”

To check out more his sketches and product concept, go to his website – http://www.alberto.hu/

Some of his great sketches. I like the way he shows a construction of shapes and the way he uses colors – just enough to give a sketch a small touch of color.

What can I say.. I love food, especially cooking it. The first thing I usually do is arranging neatly ingredients and tools that I am going to use. And a cooking book is in the center of my attention, but all books looked the same. Yes, amazing photos, but no creativity and fun!
You have probably have seen this book some time ago because it was published one or two years ago. I have seen these pictures before, but they inspire me every time I see them. Swedish furniture and home ware brand IKEA has released a 140-page cookbook featuring photographs of ingredients laid out in patterns. This is just amazing how can a simple cooking book become a peace of art.

Another great thing about these pictures is that you can see different color combination and to see whether colors work together or not. Also, take a look at each composition of every single ingredient. Maybe, these patterns you can use in graphic design or somewhere else.
Be inspired by food today and right now. Preparing a meal for today? Be creative – use your imagination!

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