digital Sketching - kettle concepts

Example of the stages of digitally marker rendering the Kettle Concept design ideas sheet using Procreate, layers, marker, masks, textures, shadows and highlights.

Once you have added colour / textures / materials you need to add final shadows and highlights to each of the designs to give them depth.

The example below (suspension spring) demonstrates really clearly the difference shadows and then highlights make to a marker pen sketch.

No shadow

shadows

shadows & highlights

No shadows

This is good and has some depth however adding some subtle shadows using a dark airbrush will give the marker rendering greater depth and help 'lift' the design from the sheet.

Adding shadows

Using a Soft Dirty Air 'brush' from the Sketch-A-Day Mega Pack II brushes, set the airbrush on a large brush (between 14 - 28%) and the opacity approx. 40%. Mask areas that you do not want to airbrush and carefully add further depth to your design work.

adding highlights

Using the Soft Clean Air 'brush' from the Sketch-A-Day Mega Pack II brushes add white hughlights to your work. A highlight is where you think light would 'catch' your product. Set the brush size between 2% - 12% and carefully, but bodly, add highlights on a new layer.