Ceramics have played an important role historically in the evolution of industrial design and are considered to be the engineering materials of the future.

A line whether straight or curved tells a story about everything that is around us. We can understand a lot just looking at the lines that create a complete image of a product.

Views are used as system to describe different design aspects of a product. A successfully chosen view is a crucial point to represent your product concept sketch in the best way. A wrong impression of a concept can be given by choosing an improper view. That is why there are many ways to show a product sketch.

Leather has been used since the ancient times and it is still used today. People try to find new ways how to use leather. The most popular leathers that we know are made of such species as pythons, crocodiles, pigs, deers and other.

In 2010 an exclusive leather was made in Germany. It is called Nanai. The leather is made from organically farmed salmon skin.

This is a third article about sketching materials. The previous articles were about Markers for Product Sketching and Pencils for Product Sketching.

Pastel is a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments that are used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media. The binder has a neutral hue and low saturation