Berlin Goes Manga: Urban Drawing Rally - Figures and Character Designs.

Marianna PoppitzSummer Workshop 2015

VHS Berlin Tempelhof-Schöneberghttp://urbanplanetcomix.com/

Berlin Goes Manga: Urban Drawing Rally.

Drawing the city through manga glasses requires training:

From faces to whole figures and poses, from fast drawn sketch to an improved lineart of essential traits.

Don't be discouraged by your first trial, go on: keep improving!

Finding the right lineart is about making choices while you draw.

Ready for the next step?

To draw a figure, grasp the pose and keep reducing the lineart until you

got a silhouette of volumes.

Switching from pose scribbling to a reduced lineart trains you to

visualize faster, and more precisely so.

A lineart helps you to enhance emotions through a visual focus.

Diversify linearts: create rich character designs, simplify and

improve them, and always connect your visuals to your lived experience!(e.g.: U1 beauty smiling at me, just

before meeting his girlfriend.)

Repeat the lineart exercise: Populate your manga with real life

characters!

Draw them bigger than life, and your memories will last.

Appropriating urban life with paper and pen trains your perception and hones your personal style.

Case study: Mussoloni, Berliner Mafia - Kreuzberg gehört ihm.

Case study: Mussolonis Tochter, keine Ahnung vom Mafia Papa - Schülerin, genießt ihr Leben.

Character designs put the story in motion.Soon to come:

Berlin Goes Manga – Storyboard & Setting.Stay tuned for upcoming workshops & reviews:

http://urbanplanetcomix.com/workshops/

BIG THANKS to my workshop participants!