A,B, Sketches
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For those interested in design principles and creativity, I think there are some useful hints in my A, B, Sketches book. It is designed to boost your form generation creativity yet you may use it as a blueprint for 3D modeling drills to challenge and improve your skills.
You may grab your copy from the Sketchucation shop here:
https://sketchucation.com/shop/books/intermediate/2612-alphabet-inspired-sketches--inspiring-drills-for-architects--3d-artists-and-designers-
Here are some images that I think are mainly relevant to design, and that is why I am sharing them in the gallery section. I would be happy to see your attempts.
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The book includes an ample number of design samples for each alphabet letter (from A to Z), starting from playing with 2D shapes and trying to convert them into 3D models (sketches). Many of them were really challanging to I myself because of form similarities. Letters such as M,W, or A, V, U, N,n...
Here are more detailed images of the same pages, I think may help to concentrate on the shared tip.
In this case, H and P are combined. Do not consider them as the final design; they are just to ignite your creativity. You can see that there is a continuous improvement from 2D to 3D and it must continue to the final steps.
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These are more samples from the letter A.
Take a sketch as a tool for thinking and not a polished product:
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More 2D and 3D examples:
You can see the form-generation rules such as rotation, repetition, overlapping, mirroring, resembling, etc.. here.
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More of 2D forms inspired by the letter B.
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I would like to see some 3D models based on these sketches.
For those of you who prefer having the physical version of the book, can grab it from Amazon: https://a.co/d/5YvA6m2
Here are 3D forms based on developing former 2D sketches.
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As always, nice work and good inspiration.
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Beautiful, masterful, loose drawings Majid
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Thanks for those, Majid. Very insightful.
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Like architects shorthand
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Thank you, mates, for your kind words. I know that there are plenty of spots to be developed and improved. But the goal was to show the process (at least partially) from a rough sketch on.
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