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During the IDEATE stage of the design process, you will have come up with many design ideas. You will also have combined the best ideas into strong design concepts. Do concept drawings to show your ideas to your team, your teachers, or other stakeholders. Drawings are easy to do and take little time. For example, a professional designer can draw a motorcycle scooter in a minute, but that same designer will take one day, at least, to build a rough model of a motorcycle scooter. A Concept Drawing will show your design concept on a single page of A4 or A3 paper, with added text descriptions, so that the audience will understand what you intend.
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FIGURE: Concept drawing of an electric scooter delivery bike. A photograph of an existing motorcycle scooter was copied, and the shape was modified, with bits added to show off the design concept. Two additional views of the motorcycle scooter give its approximate dimensions. The drawing and text explains how this scooter has a luggage compartment and many safety features.

​​​​​​​What you need

• A4 or A3 white paper, and pencil.
• Eraser and sharpener.
• Set of colour pencils or pens.

​​​​​​​Method

• Make simple line drawings.
• Draw your best ideas, and combine ideas to make them even better.
• Add written descriptions to your drawings where necessary.
• Add colour where necessary.
   

​​​​​​​Tips

• Don’t try to draw perfect drawings, draw freely and rapidly.
  • It is far more important to draw all your ideas, or record them in some way, such as writing, than it is to make perfect drawings.
• A thick pencil, such as an B2 graphite stick, will help you to draw freely and rapidly.
• You can draw something complicated by copying a photograph of a similar thing, and altering it in your drawing to suit your purposes.
• If it is quicker and easier to draw, then draw. If it is quicker and easier to write, then write.
  • For example, it is challenging to draw a glass bottle, because the glass material is difficult to depict by drawing. Instead, draw a bottle and add a written description, “glass bottle.”