I ‘only’ wanted to attend Beyond Tellerrand Conference Berlin 2022 as a participant, enjoying two days of inspirational talks on design, technology, illustration and many more interesting topics. But the day before the conference I got a message from my friend Marc (who organises the conference) asking if I could jump in for one of the speakers who got ill and couldn’t come and give their talk.

Of course the answer was ‘yes’, and so I entered the stage on Friday morning to open day 2 and talk about Pragmatic Sketching. I invited the audience to draw along with me and learn the basics of sketching for the purpose of making things clearer.

You can watch the recording of the talk below:

Learn Pragmatic Sketching with me

If you enjoyed this talk and would like to learn more about Pragmatic Sketching, , I will teach my full Pragmatic Sketching Masterclass (a 3 month online course) again starting on the 10th of October. And in spring there will be a German edition.

The class is for anyone who wants to learn (even from scratch) to draw things in a simple, clear and pragmatic way or who wants to improve their current sketching practice by taking a more detailed view at how to approach sketching things, people, actions, emotions, faces and hands and anything else in a structured but also playful way.

More info and sign-up: www.evalotta.shop/pragmatic-sketching

Und für alle Deutsch-Sprachigen unter euch: im Frühling 2023 wird es eine deutsche Ausgabe der Masterclass geben. Hier könnt ihr euch auf die Warteliste eintragen, um alle Infos per Email zu bekommen, wenn es so weit ist.

Share your sketches

Did you sketch along during the talk? I’d love to see what you drew!
Share your sketches of the talk on instagram or twitter, use the hashtags #pragmaticsketching and #btconf and tag me @evalottchen, so I can see what you did :).

The sketchnote you can see here was done by Hannah Rauschel. I love the simple portrait of me :D