Marker Sketching: Master Design Sketching with Markers

Depending on if you want a matte or glossy surface, we need to treat the reflections accordingly. In this video, you'll learn how to render a basic matte surface and what to keep in mind.

Glossy surfaces means we need to treat the reflections a bit differently than if we were to sketch a matte surface. Let me show you how in this video.

Going into more rounded and organic shapes means fewer straight lines and more curves.

Once you're happy with the marker work, we can go in and add details such as a parting line and a few highlights.

Print out this exercise and practice your matte and glossy marker rendering techniques!

Now we are starting to get into more complex and organic shapes. Let's start by rendering a glossy ellipse.

A good way to add "weight" to an object is by playing around with the line weight or base line. In this video, you'll learn how that's done.

Car design sketching is always fun and it doesn't have to be complicated if you stick to a few guidelines.

We are starting this 3/4 rear view of a sports car outlining the design and proportions.

Once we are happy with the proportions, we go in and lay down a first layer of red marker.

To really make the reflections "pop", we want to add depth to them by using darker shades on top of lighter ones.

Now we are getting into the details of the car such as parting lines for the door, window tint, wheel details and adding highlights with a white ink pen.

For this section, we will be using simple tools and few markers so even if you don't have a lot of markers, you can still follow along!

Before adding any markers, we need to make an outline with a pen of the object we are going to render.

Let's jump ahead and get going with our markers! 

In this lecture, we'll add the second marker layer to our rendering

We need to add some "veins" to our wood surface to make it look more real. Here's how to do that!

Keeping in mind where out light source is, we can add some subtle white highlights using a white pencil.

Sometimes the sketch can end up looking static and lifeless. Here's how to add more life to your sketch and make it more interesting!

Now when we know how to sketch a wood texture, let's take the first letter of your name and make it into a wooden letter!

Highlights can make all the difference in a sketch. The more contrast you give the sketch, the more depth it gets. This means you want to use both complete black and total white at some point in the sketch. Highlights are a great way to make use of white.

In this bonus video, I want to show you a quick and easy way to sketch a car in perspective. This can be done both digitally and with manual tools such as pen and paper.

Before jumping into markers, we want to have a clear outline or idea of what it is we need to sketch. In this case, we are sketching, you guessed it, cars! Here's a trick to get the proportions and perspective done right.

In this video, I'll walk you through the steps I usually take when sketching a car in side view using markers.

This is part 2 of the previous video. Here we are adding the details and getting the wheels done before finishing off this side view rendering.

Working on large surfaces and area of a sketch gives us an opportunity to really show reflections and glossiness in a sketch. Here I sketch an earplug to show how this can be done.

In part 2 of the earplug sketch we go into the glossy surface of the product and adding highlights and reflections.

As a thank you for taking my course, I've created this .pdf for you with a step by step guide on car design rendering. I wish you all the best in your sketching!