Marker Sketching and Rendering Basics - How To Sketch a Jacket or any soft goods!

Hey creatives! I’m Michael Clark and I am an industrial designer, illustrator and in the clouds creative. I live and work full-time at the foot of the mountains in Salt Lake City, Utah. For the past ten years I have been tinkering with art and design and have slowly developed my own style and approach to the design process. I have been putting design content on Instagram for about a year and throughout the last few months I have received a good amount of messages asking how I sketch things like apparel, footwear and bags. There are creatives out there interested in learning about how I approach design sketching. I didn’t realize how many people are eager to learn new techniques!

I have been surveying various creatives and students of design and what a lot of them want to know is how to sketch and ideate soft goods (bags, apparel and footwear). My classes are geared toward teaching creatives how to quickly generate concepts and ideas and get them on paper looking fresh and clean. Knowing how to generate ideas at a fast pace while at the same time making them look good is an awesome skill to have and very impressive. Having a base of design sketching skill will help you get your own ideas out to the world fast and hopefully you can use those drawings to guide you towards a physical product! 

Get your sketch on! Create as much as possible!!