This article is in response to requests that the author provide sketching techniques to help teach young learners how to improve their design sketching. Teachers indicated that, like creative confidence, students lack confidence in their sketching abilities and teachers also often struggle to be confident in teaching sketching. This article provides necessary information to help introduce the topic to students and also provide necessary teacher follow-up questions to help students improve sketches they create. These strategies are necessary to help orient students to the importance of design sketches in the first place. Class discussions on the topic can also help overcome misconceptions such as: to be good at sketching, designers have to be artistic. On the contrary, the authors will shatter this misconception by sharing some basic fundamental sketching techniques that anyone can accomplish with a little practice.