Whiteboards

I wonder who uses whiteboards to do fast sketches and putting down ideas.

I have a whiteboard on my desk and am loving it to do fast sketches directly grab a marker and write stuff and sketch ideas. Somehow love this more than a blackbook especially dont have to find the right or clear page each time and also dont have to stare at horrible stuff I did before or get distracted by old designs. Also able to remove or edit sketches makes it pretty good. And also can draw really big and stare at them while remaking them in illustrator.

i don't use it mostly bcuz i don't have one ..but seems like a good idea..i do sketch my designs sometimes ..but not always.
but if i do this is a good way, instead of filling pages & pages of doodles

One tip that I was given is to build a reference/inspiration book. How I am building mine now is all of my doodles, photo's or even pics I see on the web I scan/save to a special folder. Then I use photoshop to print a contact sheet from that folder. I end up with a number of columns and rows of basicly thumbnail images that I can make a book of. That way I can just flip through it once in a while and get some inspiration if I need it. For you, you could do a quick digi pic and that way you could catalog it for later.

One tip that I was given is to build a reference/inspiration book. How I am building mine now is all of my doodles, photo's or even pics I see on the web I scan/save to a special folder. Then I use photoshop to print a contact sheet from that folder. I end up with a number of columns and rows of basicly thumbnail images that I can make a book of. That way I can just flip through it once in a while and get some inspiration if I need it. For you, you could do a quick digi pic and that way you could catalog it for later.

Intersting tip might look into that, however not sure bout keeping all the things especially am now moving and find that I want to throw away allot of stuff. But might be an interesting to print out as an actual album each year to remind what I did.

I actually just ordered a big whiteboard today. A nice 4' by 3' one for this exact reason. I hope it makes me more organized.

Theres digital boards that you can hook up to the computer too. It allows you to draw on the pad and the animation becomes smoother etc...Though, I don't know where to get one..

Theres digital boards that you can hook up to the computer too. It allows you to draw on the pad and the animation becomes smoother etc...Though, I don't know where to get one..

Yeah those cost like 50.000 bucks and comes with a projector and at my old school they had 3 of them and mostly used for math and geometry class.

I don't have a whiteboard, but they are fun to doodle on.
I like to keep my sketches in notebooks or paper though. I don't think I would like a whiteboard as much because I like to keep my things a lot of the time.

I have bunch of papers on my desk, and notebook beside my bed that i use even in my sleep if i get some good idea that i dont want to forget