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Draw to Design | Introduction

As designers it will help us to thinking

of drawing as serving two functions:

To render art
And
To design

As a designer it will help to think about

drawing in that regard because as
a designer you should only really be
concerned with drawing to design.

Does a Designer Need Drawing Skills?

Draw to Design | Introduction

To draw to design will require practice

in two styles.

Sketching
and
Scamping

This document has been put together to

demonstrate the two styles of drawing you
will want to practice to draw to design.

Does a Designer Need Drawing Skills?

Draw to Design | Basic Equiptment

Staedtler Mars Micro, graphic pencil Staedtler Lumocolor Black Superfine Pentel Micro Correct Fine Precision
0.3mm, 0.5mm, 0.7mm Permanent Marker Pens Tip Fluid Correction Pen

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Staedtler Triplus Fineliners Letraset ProMarker Set Goldline layout Pad A4 / A3 Chartwell graph Pad A4

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Does a Designer Need Drawing Skills?

Draw to Design

Sketching

Does a Designer Need Drawing Skills?

Draw to Design | Sketching

BROCHUE PAGE Rough sketches for some page layout ideas for a
LAYOUT SKETCHES brochure, looking at possible image and typesetting
compositions.
Draw to Design | Sketching

LOGO DESIGN Sketches for a logo design exploring various routes

SKETCHES and ideas.
Draw to Design | Sketching

LOGO DESIGN Sketches for a logo design based on the DNA structure
SKETCHES looking at how it may move, grow and change to create
multiple logo permutations to create a logo system.
Draw to Design | Sketching

LOGO DESIGN Sketches for a logo design exploring various routes

SKETCHES and ideas.
Draw to Design | Sketching

LOGO DESIGN Sketches for a logo design exploring various routes

SKETCHES and ideas.
Draw to Design | Sketching

LEAFLET PLAN Sketches for a Leaflet plan looking at how the design will
AND PAGE LAYOUT unfold with possible layout options.
SKETCHES
Draw to Design

Scamps

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Draw to Design | Scamps

LEAFLET Scamp suggesting the orientation and structure of a

SCAMP DESIGN leaflet. Here we can see the direction for photography
and composition.
Draw to Design | Scamps

LEAFLET Scamp suggesting the orientation and structure of a

SCAMP DESIGN leaflet. Here we can see the direction for photography
and composition.
Draw to Design | Scamps

LEAFLET A closer look at the previous open spread, Here we can

SCAMP DESIGN see more clear direction for layout of type and image.
Draw to Design | Scamps

LEAFLET Scamp example suggesting the layout of a leaflet cover

SCAMP DESIGN and page layouts.
Draw to Design | Scamps

SCAMP FOR Scamp giving direction for a photo composition for an

PHOTO COMPOSITION advert. To the right is the photo result taken from the
scamp design.
Draw to Design | Scamps

POSTER SCAMP DESIGN Scamp for a poster design suggesting product and
design composition and type layout
Draw to Design | Scamps

STORYBOARD SCAMP Story board scamp for a short advert.

Draw to Design | Scamps

BROCHURE Scamp example for a leaflet layout design.

SCAMP DESIGN
Draw to Design | Scamps

BROCHURE Scamp example for a leaflet layout design.

SCAMP DESIGN
Draw to Design | Scamps

BUSINESS CARD Scamps suggesting design direction for a business card.

SCAMP DESIGN
Draw to Design | Scamps

LETTERHEAD Scamps suggesting design direction for a letter head.

SCAMP DESIGN
Draw to Design | Scamps

BROCHURE Scamps suggesting design direction for brochure

PAGE LAYOUT page layouts.
SCAMP DESIGN
Draw to Design | Scamps

BROCHURE Scamps suggesting design direction for brochure

PAGE LAYOUT page layouts.
SCAMP DESIGN
Does a Desinger
Need Drawing Skills?

Draw
To Design

With Freelance Designer

Gareth David