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Simple illustration

If you want to learn to draw the easy way, you can purchase the class here! 

Introduction

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Welcome!
5:14
Commitment
The commitment
Material
Material
1:26
Module 1: Message first
Drawing for communication
1:13

Module 1 – Style and technique

Hand movement
How to hold a pencil
0:45
Take up space while drawing
Take up space while drawing
0:44
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My secret formula
Venn diagram
Communicate with your drawings at any stage: Venn diagram
0:47
warmup pebbles
Excercise: Pebbles
2:53
warmup dots
Excercise: Connect the dots
2:10
warm up spirale
Excercise: Spiral
5:49
ribbons bleistift
Excercise: Overlapping ribbons
2:01

Module 2 - Heads

Elina
Introduction – Start with the "who".
Worksheets
smiley faces komplett
Warm-up: Smiley faces
13:36
basic head
Head recipe
2:28
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How to draw hair
2:41
Expressions
Emotions
3:21
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Tilting head & characters
thank you for drawing with melang
Assignment: Tell a story
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"Heads" webinar
Portraits from photos

Module 3 –  Figures

magical
Introduction
Better stick figures
Stick people
star and uo people
A few very easy figures
6:40
2-strokefigure
My favourite quick figure
4:18
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Figure walking
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Simple, but alive
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Proportions
Moving people
More movement!
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Figures dancing (plus watercolor)
Profile people–kl
People in profile
Shading sitting person
Sitting on the ground - (shading)
4:43

Module 4 –  Tell your story

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Show your work!
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Assignment: Your gifts
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Assignment: Draw yourself
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Assignment: Show what you love
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Ideas for layout & composition
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People in a scene
Playing with boxes
Use boxes as symbols
16:43

Module 5 - Real world illustration!

In this module I'm going to show you how I go about making my illustrations - technically and  conceptually. 


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Digitizing a drawing with a scanning app
sanina figürchen
Cleaning up a sketch in Photoshop
Emma iPad
Emma... on iPad and paper
visible
Drawings on social media