: Levels of hand drawing I'm in HR and was given the task to define levels for some design related skills. This is for use in performance evaluation sessions. One of the categories is "hand

@Vandalay110

Nearly every profession out there is not what your average layman thinks it is. I do not envy your task.

In this case drawing by hand is not a skill that is central to a graphics designer. Though it might be central to other designers such as industrial designers. But as a general rule you want to see the portfolio and choose based on that.

It would be much better if you only measured skills that you actually need. Do you really need hand drawing skill? If you do then you need to specify kind of hand drawing skill? This might lead you to hire a production artist or an illustrator instead.

But then if you really need a person able to sketch by hand rating that skill is not entirely straightforward. First there is a huge difference between a thumbnail sketch and a final rendering (which might take weeks to complete). This would be counter productive unless you need a hardcopy as many persons work exclusively digital.

Skills like this are not usually interchangeable. Ultimately drawing skills dont make a designer.

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@Alves566

Hand drawing is not a basic skill any designer should have. I'd argue its quite the opposite. That's a specialist skill for illustrators.

You need to discuss this with your staff and see what type of hand drawings they're looking for and ask them for samples of the quality. Then field candidates with a similar or better portfolio.



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I'll also say from personal experience, these "rate 1-10" are the most painfully dumb things an HR can do so if that's your intent on "levels" please don't. I once did a phone interview and then was asked to come in for an initial interview. At the initial interview which I had to take off from work and dry clean clothes and all of that for I went in and all she asked me was 10 rate yourself questions (Rate yourself 1-10 on Photoshop, Creativity, InDesign, Copywriting, etc). Biggest waste of time and completely open to interpretation, lies and bias.

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