Digital Tutors - Conceptualizing Products for Industrial Design in Photoshop

Duration 1h 44m

Difficulty Level Beginner

Project Files Included

Software used

Photoshop CC 14.0

What you will learn

In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll go over a proven process for conceptualizing products for industrial design.

We'll begin this process by analyzing the parameters of the product that we'll be conceptualizing so we can sketch with more purpose and clarity. Following this, we'll use some different methods of sketching to produce a variety of contrasting thumbnails.

From here, we'll evaluate our thumbnails and choose some of our best options that fit within the range of our product's parameters. After choosing our top thumbnails, we'll sketch additional thumbnail concepts that pull from the various attributes and features of our top thumbs. Finally, we'll choose our final concept sketch and create turnarounds to view it from different sides.

Generating a variety of ideas for any concept design can be challenging. By exploring this layered process, you can create a variety of design concepts for any product.

1. Introduction and project overview 01:06

2. Product analysis 11:00

3. Sketching thumbnails with silhouettes 13:41

4. Sketching thumbnails with lines of action, shapes, and gestures 12:34

5. Thumbnail evaluation 10:38

6. Sketching additional thumbnail concepts 12:56

7. Sketching a turnaround for our ear piece concept 12:07

8. Continuing to sketch the turnaround for our ear bud concept 11:32

9. Rendering our product concept 09:11

10. Final thoughts 09:17