Honestly, I used to sketch every single design idea in my Moleskine for like 5 years, but now I just take a quick video on my phone talking it out because I can capture the movement and drape way faster.

What changed was trying to design a draped jersey dress last fall and realizing my flat sketches totally missed how the fabric would actually flow, so now I only sketch final tech flats after the 3D idea is solid on video. Anyone else switched from paper to a faster method for initial concepts?

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cole_mitchell81mo ago

Wait, you just stopped sketching completely? I could never do that. My whole process is built on flipping through old notebooks and seeing ideas next to each other. If I only had videos, I'd forget half of them. The paper is like my brain's backup.

felix3851mo ago

My last sketchbook from 2019 has a coffee stain that smudged two ideas together and accidentally created my best logo. You can't get that from a clean video timeline. I started taking photos of every page and dumping them into a simple folder by date. Now I can scroll through it like a notebook but still search for "weird dog sketch" and actually find it. It's the only way I kept the feel of paper without carrying three books everywhere.