Learn
bought at gumroad.com/mitchleeuwe how to draw
How all kinds of
How to
to draw
Draw effects, like
Effects
effects water, fire
and more
by mitch leeuwe
bought at gumroad.com/mitchleeuwe
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how to draw
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effects!
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Hi there!
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Mitch Leeuwe and I am an illustrator from the Netherlands. When I was a kid
I used to draw a lot, I even had the childhood dream of becoming an animator at Disney. During my teenage years, I
unfortunately lost that dream. Luckily, I slowly started drawing more often as I got older. When I was 19, I started doing
some freelance work as a graphic designer, which also resulted in me picking up drawing again. I attended several
drawing programs at schools and colleges, but I actually learned the most from resources I found online. Today I am
a freelance artist working on visual development. This means I design characters, props and backgrounds for games,
animation and toys. However, you probably know me from my Instagram account where I release drawing tutorials,
videos and more. My goal is to create an accessible environment where people can learn drawing techniques and can
easily access vital information to improve their drawing skills; things I wanted to learn and have access to when I first
started out.
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about this ebook down from being behind a computer screen all day or
when I’m not a home. Just try to understand the basic Are you ready to get started? I am! So let’s get going!
Let’s draw effects! The best way to learn from this ebook You could follow along with pencil and paper, or a digital drawing principles first and don’t rely too much on
is to draw along; copy the steps one by one. After you device like an iPad or a computer and a tablet. Use digital tricks.
have copied my examples, you could try to make a whatever you prefer to work with or what you have to
version yourself (if you’d like). Don’t worry if this doesn’t hand. The benefit of drawing with pencil and paper is that If you’d like to learn more about animals, you can also
look perfect right away. Learning to draw takes time, even a pencil really forces you to keep it simple, and not use check out my ebook ‘How to draw animals’. In that
when something looks easy it can be very hard to master any digital tricks. This might seem like a downside, but ebook I dive deeper into drawing different animals, and
but over time you will get better at it. If you’re stuck it’s you’ll learn the most from making mistakes! go more in depth about drawing techniques. When you
fine to move onto trying something else and come back to However, if you want to start by drawing digitally (or practice and understand the technical side of drawing,
what you struggled with later on. already do). That’s totally fine as well! I mostly draw it will become easier to understand and apply to your
digitally, and try to draw in my sketchbook a bit to cool own drawings
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conclusion
& thank you
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as a reference, any other artbook, or
that's it! perhaps one of my Instagram posts to
study. It’s not even that important what
you draw initially, it’s more important
Thank you so much for reading this book! I hope you the importance of them and why those are taken. When that you draw. What’s also great for
enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed making it and that you you do study someone else’s work, and you publish it practice is drawing from real life,
picked up some new tips, tricks, and skills to help you somewhere online, clearly credit the original artist. drawing people on the train, on the
along on your artistic journey. After you have studied other art techniques and learned street, in the park. Since we are talking
the principles of drawing, try to create your own original about environments and backgrounds, it
Making progress in your drawing skills takes a lot of time. works of art. Maybe first stick close to a generic style also helps if you draw a street near you,
I recommend you take your time and realize it’s easy to and something you are familiar with. For example, make the train station, any building you find
overestimate what we can achieve in a short amount of a drawing of your room, observe what all the objects interesting, a forest and so on. You can
time and underestimate what we can expect over a longer look like in real life and then try to translate that to your also use the internet or Google Maps to
period of time. Keep focusing on that long-term goal: take drawing. You can also try taking a picture of a place and find some cool photos and use that as
small steps and trust the process. use that picture as a reference for your scene. Or go to inspiration for your drawing. Don’t forget
a place that you like and inspires you and draw that as a to credit the original artist if you are
Personally, I noticed real progress when I analyzed background. publishing your drawing journey online
drawings I liked made by other artists and focused on
construction. I learned so much from “copying” art I Another thing I can recommend is to get a sketchbook Drawing is a lifelong process of
admired and by re-creating those drawings step by step. and try to fill a page every day. The cool thing about learning. So, stay positive, don’t be too
That’s why I like to break my tutorials down into small, a sketchbook is that you can bring it everywhere you hard on yourself, and have fun!
easy and accessible steps. I think the best way to learn go. Maybe it’s hard in the beginning to fill the pages.
how I draw is to follow along with me through these Perhaps you feel stuck about what to draw or aren’t Best,
tutorials. Draw everything step by step and understand happy with your drawing. You can always use this ebook Mitch Leeuwe
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