Hand Drawing and Sketching Tutorials
Rendering a Motorbike with Gray Markers
A short tutorial by Arvind Ramkrishna who explains the importance of value and shows how to render a motorbike using a set of gray scale markers.
Sizing Up Design Sketching
Transportation designer Allan Macdonald explains how to choose the right scale for design sketching.
Verithin and marker sketch tutorial
A quick tutorial on how to create a product design rendering using markers and smudging on a Prismacolor Verithin pencil drawing.
How to Show Transparency with Markers
In this video tutorial Spencer Nugent from IDSketching.com shows his technique for creating transparency effects for industrial design sketches using markers on paper.
Ballpoint pen and Photoshop
This video tutorial shows how to create product design handmade sketches and how to import them into Adobe Photoshop to produce quick value renders.
Painting Fundamentals
In this 10 minutes video matte painter and concept artist Marco Bucci quickly covers some of the essential aspects of painting: light, colors and shadows.
Tips on Project Presentations
In this article designer Luciano Bove gives design students some tips and general rules on how to make a good project presentation.
Car drawing tutorial
A visual tutorial that shows the creation process of a car drawing using pencils, markers and pastels.
Sketching quick tips
Allan MacDonald explains how to achieve the fast and speedy but still neat line work of the pros, by practising drawing from your wrist or from your elbow.
Perspective Drawing Tutorials
A set of five tutorials that explains the basic principles of perpective drawing applied to the technical illustrtion field. Topics include 1, 2 and 3 points perspective and drawing of ellipses/circles.
Coloring a sketch with pastels and markers
This tutorial explains how to render a car pencil sketch using traditional colored pastels and markers.
Pastel and marker rendering tutorial
In this tutorial Iranian designer Farzad Barkhordary shows how to create a car rendering with strong reflections using colored pastels and black markers.
Marker Rendering Tutorial
This tutorial shows how to create a sketch rendering using traditional markers and pastels. The author is Mark Randall, a Coventry graduate who works at Volvo Trucks as an exterior designer.
Traditional car sketching tutorial
In this tutorial Swedish designer Mikael Lugnegård shows his techniques for developing a traditional sketch rendering with Verithin and Prismacolor pencils and a minimal use of digital post-processing.
Headlight tutorial
A quick visual tutorial that shows an effective way to draw headlights as chrome concave shapes.
Drawing Aids by Speed and Design
This section of Speed and Design lists a range of perspective and shading examples, rendering demos, mini tutorials and random sketches that can be used as helpful references.
Vellum Tutorial
This tutorial explains how to draw a car with traditional media, using markers, pencils and vellum paper, which can be flipped over and used on both sides to achieve different shade tones.



