Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook

3.2 Sketching What You See

an exercise on drawing accurately

A large part of learning to draw involves learning to reproduce on paper what you are actually seeing. Yet this is difficult for many people. The main challenge is that what registers in our minds as what we are seeing often leaves out or distorts many details of what is actually in the scene. Our thinking mind has many ideas and understandings about what we commonly interact with in our everyday lives. In general these understandings are useful and make our daily activities smoother. However, sometimes these mental models are less than accurate in terms of exactly what is physically present.

Materials

• Paper

• Pencil

• A drawing, such as the one included in this chapter.

• A good ...