• Use simple drawings to communicate complex concepts?

• Make your notes more interesting adding a visual touch?

• Boost your creativity with minimum efforts?

• Rediscover the joy of drawing?

• Surprise yourself with your sketching skills?

If that's the case, the Drawing Gym is just the place for you.

Sharpen your pencil and have fun!
The Drawing Gym is a series of online, hands-on, live training sessions that will help you to improve your drawing skills.

Drawing is a skill, and like any other skill, it can be improved. If you want to stay in shape and get stronger, you would go to the gym and do workout. There you learn the correct moves with the help of a trainer and most of all you will practice, practice, practice.

So if you want to take your drawing skills to the next level and harness the power of visual communication, join the Gym!

After completing this training, you will gain:

• A structure for visualizing your thinking and sketching quickly

• The ability to create simple sketches that are easily understood by others

• Additional communication skills, empowered by effective visualization and storytelling awareness

• Inspiration on how to visualize things from the work of others

• Increased "sketching confidence"!

At the Drawing Gym your hands will have the leading role. Every week, for three weeks, you will be sketching most of the time, learn some theory and have open discussions with mentors and peers.

These are the topics we will cover in the Drawing Gym:

• basic shapes

• people

• places

• devices

• character design

• storyboarding

• building a visual vocabulary

• visual warmups

Adjustments to this list may occur, depending on participants' wishes and needs.

Giovanni Ruello, a seasoned service designer from Italy, is passionate about understanding both the mechanics and aesthetics of the world around him. He grew up in Messina, Italy, long before the iconic "The Simpsons" aired on television screens. As a kid, he dreamed of becoming a professional comic artist. While he may not have fully realized that aspiration, his current role allows him to use the power of visualisation to improve collaboration, increase clarity and navigate complex concepts though diagrams, personas, maps, and storyboards.

Beyond his main job responsibilities, Giovanni has contributed his visual skills to various projects, including illustrating books such as "Start Small" by Vincenzo DiMaria and designing journals for SimeBooks.

He previously teached designers how to sketch with more confidence at renowned institutions like the Service Design Show, the Service Design College, and Bosch.

At the Drawing Gym the learning experience of the participants is highly valued.

If you're not completely satisfied with your progress within 7 days from the end of the training, you will be provided a full refund, no questions asked.