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Yo! C77 Sketch: How to Add Texture to Your Sketches
The secret's out! Michael DiTullo demonstrates his go-to method for adding awesome texture to analog sketches
By Michael DiTullo - Apr 04
Many of my analog sketches have this great texture to them. The secret is a piece of mesh textile that I put below the surface of the sketch that transfers through by rubbing the paper with a colored pencil. I show off the technique in this shoe sketch. Give it a try in your drawings and tag us if you post it on instagram.
As always, if you have any questions or comments on the techniques shown, leave them in the comments below. What other techniques would you like to see?
Enter a caption (optional)Yo! C77 Sketch is a video series from Core77 forum moderator and prolific designer, Michael DiTullo. In these tutorials, DiTullo walks you through step by step rapid visualization and ideation techniques to improve your everyday skills. Tired of that guy in the studio who always gets his ideas picked because of his hot sketches? Learn how to beat him at his own game, because the only thing worse than a bad idea sketched well is a great idea sketched poorly.
Michael DiTullo
For more than 20 years Michael has been designing iconic products and brand experiences for some of the best brands in the world including Nike, Google, Motorola, Honda, and Hasbro. Located a block from the Pacific Ocean in San Diego, his studio focuses on industry leading halo projects across autonomous automotive, consumer electronics, travel, mobile devices, wearables, toys and conceptual Hollywood entertainment projects.
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By Michael DiTullo - Mar 23
Yo! C77 Sketch: How to Simulate Woodgrain in a Sketch
Michael DiTullo adds woodgrain to a sketch using a variety of different tools
When sketching furniture or architecture it helps to be able to simulate woodgrain. In this video I'll use a simple coffee table design to show you how I add woodgrain to a sketch. I use several tones of markers, pen, and white pencils to achieve this affect. As always,
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By Michael DiTullo - Feb 22
Yo! C77 Sketch: Digitally Rendering a Shoe
Michael DiTullo shows us how to add color to a pen sketch in Photoshop
To bring the fidelity of a sketch up just a little bit, I'll render it digitally. In this video I'll take a simple ballpoint pen drawing of a shoe and show you how I simulate color, form, and texture in photoshop using a Wacom tablet. As always, if you
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By Michael DiTullo - Nov 08, 2017
Yo! C77 Sketch: Digital Car Sketch Using a Simple Color Technique
Michael DiTullo shows us how to create surface differentiation with color
In this video, I show you how I quickly sketch a car using a very simple color technique. Using sky tones for all of the upward facing surfaces and warm tones for all of the ground facing surfaces, I quickly and effectively show off the surface changes in these two
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By Michael DiTullo - Aug 24, 2017
Yo! C77 Sketch: Drawing a Motorcycle in Perspective
Are y'all trying to torture DiTullo with your difficult requests?
I've gotten a few requests to draw a motorcycle in perspective. Sometimes I think you guys just want to torture me with asking for the most difficult things to draw! I find motorcycles difficult for two reasons. First, they are incredibly complex mechanically. Showing all of those mechanics in an
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