I studied in Montreal and it seems that what the companies are looking for in that city is people with very good CAD and Photoshop skills, unlike what I’ve seen in California so far. Even though most of our final rendering was done by computer, we always had the choice to produce it in the form we wanted and all the work before the final rendering had to be done by hand. Our teachers insited very much on the importance to explore an idea (every angles of it) by hand. You can produce hundreds of hand drawings and easily go back to them. It’s much harder to do with digital work since we don’t usualy keep every version we might do.
I don’t think hand drawing is about to desapear as an exploration media. However, I love working with photoshop and Auto CAD. If you work with different offices, it’s also much easier to exchange the information.
