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Sketching Vocabulary Chapter 3.4 in Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook Drawing objects, people, and their activities

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Page 1: Sketching Vocabulary Chapter 3.4 in Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook Drawing objects, people, and their activities

Sketching VocabularyChapter 3.4 in Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook

Drawing objects, people, and their activities

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Basic sketch elements

• Lines, rectangles, and circles will be essential visual elements for many of you sketches

• Become familiar with this variety of shapes (play with line thickness and hatching styles)

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Composing objects

Combine basic sketch elements to compose a variety of shapes and objects

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Sketching vocabulary: best practices

• Simplicity is key: try to simplify sketched objects to the minimum necessary detail

• Icons can be a good source of inspiration for simple shapes representing objects

• 3D is not necessary (most of the time)

• Sketch with fast, long strokes

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Try it

• Sketch the following basic objects:

o Photo camerao Desktop computero Telephone

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Try it

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Drawing people

• Sketches of interactive systems often include people

• Many possible techniques for drawing a person:

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Drawing people

Comic-like sketches can also represent people

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Drawing people

• Comic-like sketches can also represent people• Chose drawing style to match the kind of sketch

you are creating

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Activities

By varying people’s poses you can express a variety of activities

Action lines can emphasize a person’s movements

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Bodies and emotions

• Postures can express the emotional state of a person. • Symbols next to the person can emphasize this effect

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Faces and emotions

Express people’s emotions through simple variations of how you draw a face

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Faces and emotions

Express people’s emotions through simple variations of how you draw a face

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Faces and emotions

Express people’s emotions through simple variations of how you draw a face

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Combining postures + faces

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Combining sketched elements

Combine the postures of people, facial expressions, and other sketched elements to illustrate specific situations and actions.

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You now know

• Sketching vocabularies are your basic toolset for sketching

• Simplicity is key • People’s postures and emotions can be

expressed through simple line sketches• Learning a basic sketching vocabulary lets you

sketch more efficiently

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