This document provides instructions for a manga drawing workshop that teaches participants how to draw characters and scenes from urban Berlin life in the manga style. The workshop focuses on developing line art skills like drawing faces, figures, and poses and simplifying drawings into silhouettes to capture movement. Participants are encouraged to draw from life, populate their manga with real characters from the city, and connect their visuals to personal experiences to develop unique styles. Case studies of potential characters like a local mafia boss and his unaware daughter are presented to inspire story ideas. The workshop aims to train observation skills and help participants find their artistic voice.

1. Marianna Poppitz
Summer Workshop 2015
VHS Berlin Tempelhof-Schöneberg
http://urbanplanetcomix.com/
Berlin Goes Manga:
Urban Drawing Rally.

3. 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.

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

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

19. Ready for the next step?

20. To draw a figure, grasp the pose and
keep reducing the lineart until you
got a silhouette of volumes.

22. Switching from pose scribbling to a
reduced lineart trains you to
visualize faster, and more precisely
so.

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

30. 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.)

35. Repeat the lineart exercise:
Populate your manga with real life
characters!

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

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

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

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

48. 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!