Step 1
Sketch out 6 square boxes onto your graph paper. These should measure 10x10, 11x11 or 12x12 to ensure you can fit 6 onto 1 page.
Step 2
Ghost line sketch your geometric patterns within each square. Use your inspiration poster and pattern research to help with design ideas.
Step 3
Start fine lining each design, including the square boxes.
Step 4
Render each design by following the 3 rendering steps. First, shade in a light base tone. Second, add a dark coloured edge around the fine line. Third, blend from the dark edge to the light middle.
Design Ideas are the ideas that you have as potential solutions to solve the design brief. Design ideas should be sketched quickly and should be unrefined, not developed ideas. They are initial responses based on your research and should just show the basic concept that you have in your mind. Some design ideas will be great! These are the ones that you will go on to develop but some design ideas will be less great and these ones just show your exploration of the design context. Look at all the example design ideas below. Not all of them will become real tables and that is a normal part of the design process.
Procreate is an ideal app to sketch our design ideas because we can set up the canvas to match the size of our design restrictions which help us to control the proportions of the design and minimum shape size. We can also use drawing guides to help us.
The first step is to set up the correct size canvas. Throughout all of the step below make sure you use Milimeters (mm)
Press the + in the top right corner and select "Square"
When the file opens, select the spanner icon - "canvas" - "Crop & Resize"
Follow steps 1-5. Make sure you repeat step 2. for both boxes.
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2. "select the size boxÂ
3. Millimeters optionÂ
4. type 350Â
5. press done
Once you press "done" the canvas is set to the correct size. âś…
When you have set the size once you should go to the gallery, select the file and duplicate it a few times so that you have canvases' that are already set to the correct size and you do not have to repeat the above steps every time you sketch a new design idea!
Drawing guides can be very helpful when sketching ideas as we can use grids or assisted drawing modes to help sketch our ideas. Below there are several options for Grids and Guides with examples of outcome from these different modes.
The 2D grid is useful for sketching square or rectangle based patterns.
Open the edit drawing guide menu
select 2D grid, grid size
Assisted Drawing will "snap" drawing lines to the grid
Set the units to Milimeters and the Length to 20
Open the edit drawing guide menu
Select Isometric and set the grid size make sure it is in mm
Set the units to Milimeters and the Length to 20
You can turn Drawing assist on and off depending on what you want to achieve. Drawing assist on will snap to the grid, drawing assist off will let you draw any lines but still see the grid.
The Drawing grid is not part of your design work. You can switch it off and on to see how your design ideas are progressing.
Open the edit drawing guide menu
Select the symmetry button
In the options menu there are different types of symmetry.
Vertical symmetry
Horizontal symmetry
Quadrant Symmetry
Radial Symmetry
Rotational Symmetry
Colour drop can be used to add colour to closed loop shapes in Procreate.
Once you have created all of your design ideas for your table, using your pattern inspiration board as a guide, you should start to think about presenting all of your ideas on a design ideas presentation poster. there are many ways that you could go about presenting your ideas. One presentation style is explained below and uses 3-D perspective views of a table outline to help show your favorite ideas in a 3D perspective style.