Freehand design sketching training for professionals through online courses and live workshops.
Design Sketching Courses is an online training platform for industrial product designers, design engineers, UX professionals, makers and other creative professionals, founded by Martijn van de Wiel
Separate ideation from execution to explore concepts at the speed of thought, free from perfectionism.
Develop the physical fluency to draw controlled lines and forms that finally match the vision in your head.
Master a workflow based on real-world observation to sketch complex products with structural confidence.
Join design students and professionals from around the world learning & sketching alongside Martijn van de Wiel.
“I enjoyed a lot this course, because the contents were taught in a very dynamic and understandable way.”
Industrial designer
“It’s amazing that within only 4 weeks I’ve started to see all objects in the world differently.”
Interaction Designer
"A perfect balance between theory and practice. I gained more from this course than from multiple university classes."
Designer | Professor at Universidade de Brasília
"Excellent course. My progress was exponential. For the first time in my life, I feel like drawing. I am an industrial designer and I think it will be very useful for my future.”
Industrial Designer
“I learned a lot, actually every video was valuable knowledge, some of them answered my questions I couldn’t find in books or other materials.”
Former accountant
“I learned sketching in one month in this course more than 10 years by myself”
Designer | Watchmaker
Welcome to Design Sketching!
Early in my career – despite my innate love for drawing – I struggled a lot with sketching. My urge to make beautiful drawings was blocking my true creativity. Fortunately I was able to work with a few incredibly talented professional designers at some of the world's best design firms. Observing how they were sketching in real design projects was a game changer for me. I learned how to use sketching as a tool for exploration and a vehicle for thought.
For over 25 years I have been sharing these insights in my sketching classes and workshops at design schools and companies worldwide. My methods have already helped thousands of students and professionals sketch more effectively and unlock their creative superpower. With my online design sketching courses I aim for you to do the same and help you bridge the gap to industry performance!
Martijn van de Wiel – Founder of Design Sketching™
Leading design schools Martijn has worked with include:
Armed with insights from 25+ years of teaching sketching classes, I have created a highly effective training method:
These 3 steps form the foundation of the Complete Learning Journey for Design Sketching, a professional training program for design professionals who need a friction free system to release their creative superpower.
'If you learn to sketch without fear (...) you truly have a creative superpower'
'If you first develop your motor skill to sketch fluently in 2D (...) you can already greatly expand your creative space'
To reach professional mastery, you need more than "pretty drawing" tutorials. You need a system that removes friction by aligning your core components into a high performance engine of creativity!
All my courses and workshops are built on the Design Sketching Triad™ – a holistic framework that unlocks creative superpowers, by purposely training and carefully layering the mind, the hand and the eye.
Ádám F.
Designer / Furniture maker
Train your mind to think through the pen and sketch without fear!
A guide to visual communication in Design and Engineering.
Start sketching in perspective straight away!
My proven methods, from 25 years of teaching Design Sketching classes, will help you build confidence and develop the visual fluency design professionals can't do without!
Martijn van de Wiel
Founder of Design Sketching™