Become A Creative Sketcher
& Sell Your Ideas
Develop a world-class creative process based on quality sketches and form factors that can turn your good ideas into desirable objects.
Many young designers give up on becoming high-creatives because they can’t see progress in their skills, despite the efforts…
- They spend hours sketching their desk lamp, thinking that this is a good way to train their sketching skills, but it results in losing motivation.
- They don't fully understand proportions, form factors and details, so their ideas don't look good on paper and end up being discarded. So why bother?
- They think that being creative is having a lightbulb moment and don't have the ability to transfer the designs from their heads to the paper. What is it that you should put on paper? How do you define a good idea?
- They haven't learned a creative process that can build relevant story telling, so they can’t confidently communicate their ideas, thus limiting their growth.
In reality, entering the design studio that they love relies on how well they can communicate and push their ideas.
- They don't need to be excellent at sketching, but they should be comfortable with the standards of our industry in order to develop a style that motivates them to create over and over.
- They need to acquire the aptitude to create desirable objects, so their good ideas can create a "wow" effect and can be selected to become real products.
- They need to develop a world-class creative process that brings meanings to their ideas, engaging stories to their presentations and the ability to sell their work better with fewer efforts.
Become A Creative Sketcher
& Sell Your Ideas
Develop a world-class creative process based on quality sketches and form factors that can turn your good ideas into desirable objects.
Module 1 / Fix your sketching skills & develop a style that motivates you to create.
Motivation comes from the inside. So when you do flat sketches of your desk lamp, it often leads to losing motivation. To free your creativity, the most important thing is not only to sketch simple things properly, but also that you feel motivated by what you create. It is worthwhile to develop a style that makes you proud, creative and genuinely proactive.
- Understand how to shade every typical forms, corners, part lines, hinges, buttons etc... which are constantly used in Industrial Design.
- Practice developing your speed, develop a style and progress from a white page, from a quick exploration doodle, to a presentation sketch.
- Learn how to create volume, contrast and apply the correct shading so that your sketches pop out (no more unexciting flat pancake sketches)
- "Where does the light come from?" Use a simplified technique to place your lighting and shadows without thinking (I use this every day...).
- Use the white pen for highlights and improve precision with your markers to make your sketch dynamic, clean and creative.
- Become good enough that you can start loving your sketches. Now, let's move on to module 2.
Module 2 / Understand form factors so you can create concepts that generate a "wow" effect.
Now that you like your sketches and you are motivated by them, we need to give you the aptitude to create desirable objects. What you see on leManoosh follows simple codes, logics and form treatments which are standards in our industry. They took me years to assimilate, but we’ll go through them one by one, so that your good ideas can create a “wow” effect.
- Understand the logic behind proportions, forms, construction and details in order to develop more stylish and desirable concepts / products.
- Learn why you do not need many ideas even if you are a "creative". And how you can generate details instead that make a better difference.
- Learn how you can make your product more recognizable, iconic and remove clutter, so you can actually achieve simplicity.
- Add the typical details that people usually forget but which can help you build value and convince people with less effort.
- Make sure people really understand the potential of your ideas and avoid rejection because they don't look refined enough.
- Become more efficient. Create better concepts and save time when you develop your ideas.
Module 3 / Develop a world-class creative process that can open the doors to any design studio or company.
Now that you love your sketches and you understand how to create stylish concepts to emphasize the quality of your ideas, we’ll complement these with a strong creative process that allows you to fill entire pages, or even walls of ideas, with creative sketches, details and explorations.
- Generate creative layouts with sketches which convey your creativity, “wow” yourself and others.
- Generate tons of ideas, even if you think you are "not creative" using the 4 views technique, clever use of underlays, and others.
- Be inspired by product details and implement them in your designs. Quickly learn to develop new details and create your own ideas.
- Develop your ideas, so that you stay in a creative flow, helping you to create even more, but also organize your thoughts and attract people to your sketches.
- Understand what to focus your creativity on. This is the main difference between a young designer and an experienced designer (it took me 10 years to understand this...)
- How to use sketching to help you progress faster along the process - when you create CAD models, refine your designs, communicate with clients, and how you can save time while building better designs.
Yes, I want to develop a creative process based on quality sketches and turn my ideas into desirable objects.
Hi, I'm Alex
I’m the guy behind leManoosh. When I landed my first job in Taiwan in 2006, I was almost fired after a few months. I had no clue how to design a real product… even though I thought I wasn’t too bad at school! This experience was a mind opener. I had to learn, analyse, test, understand and apply fast. I kept my job.
Over the last 15 years, I have developed my own methodology and became one of the top creative minds and problem solvers in most of the studios I worked for. Working in Europe, USA and Asia, I’ve designed products that I love, won many awards and reached the studios I was dreaming about. Now it’s time for me to show you how you too can enjoy your work and live a happy life following your creative passions.
What if you need feedback?
You can always ask questions in the comments under the videos inside the course, but if you want to maximize your progress, you can also join my Pro Group, called "PRIVATE SKILL BOOSTER FEEDBACK GROUP". Inside, I personally do video reviews of your sketches and designs. I re-sketch it in front of you, point out the mistakes, and show you how you can resolve them. This is 10 times more efficient than your design school, as it is like having a private course with a Senior Industrial Designer. How much would you achieve if I was with you every day? You need to select the "Elite" package to get this exclusive invite.
Do you want to see Before / After?
These are the improvements from the students of this course after the course.
"For the first time in my lifetime, sketching becomes a way to help to boost ideas and refine my design, I feel so lucky to have found this course!"
Louise – Junior Designer – Shanghai, China
"This course was a godsend in helping me improve my work."
Francesco Santos – Junior Industrial Designer – Portugal
"I just wanted to let you know that since I started learning sketching, this is my first time actually enjoying and exploring design by sketching. This feeling is the most important thing for me. Merci beaucoup!"
Herin Haramoto – Designer / Researcher – Tokyo, Japan
"This course is so easy to learn but there’s so much you can get from it."
"I was not an Industrial Designer when I first started this course, I was just doing random sketches. After a few months of working and collaboration with Alex, I started to actually design stuff."
Milos – Freelance Designer – Serbia
"Bloody brilliant!!"
Anton – Sutherland Labs – London, UK
"Why at University there is no one like Alex who explains what really matters?...You are AMAZING!!!"
BILOK SHANKAR – Junior Designer – Ahmedabad, INDIA
Frequently Asked Questions
This is a sketching… AND a design course. A complete course which will show you exactly, step by step, how to develop the skills and processes to become a creative and convincing designer.
The core course contains about 20-25 videos (6 hours) of applicable lessons that took me 15 years to learn (and which should take you only a couple of weeks…).
You also have lifetime access to the platform, so you can learn at your own rhythm.
The course is suitable for wherever you are in your designing career.
If you’re a beginner, you will learn all my simplified methods and will bring you directly to the master level of sketching and designing stuff you can be proud of. It’s like learning all the techniques from a senior designer who has 15 years of experience. I bet you can learn a few tips! 🙂
If you’re already more experienced, imagine if you would transfer all your knowledge to me, I would still learn a lot. So here is the same. If I give you all my knowledge, there are also plenty of things which will complete what you know.
The entirety of the course is online, on the private section of the leManoosh website. You will find all modules and video there, accessible anywhere, anytime! All you need is an internet connection 🙂 And since we are in 2021, it also works on your phone and tablets.
The course is $199, which includes all the videos, direct access and lifetime access.
If you are a student you will have access to a special discount, £43 / €49 / $59.
Note that you will need to prove that you are a student with a student card, LinkedIn profile, or letter from your school. Just email this to [email protected] after you enroll. Relax, you have 2 weeks to do so.
If you want to be part of the VIP students and get the personalized video feedback, YOU CAN. Just select the “Course + Personal video feedback” offer which includes access to the “Skill Booster Feedback Group”. There we can work together, and I’ll personally correct, give feedback, and help you fix your sketches to maximize your progress.
I’ll vanish. Just kidding 
If within the 30 days after you receive the product, you are not satisfied in every way, just send me an email and I’ll refund you immediately, no questions asked!
As I explain a bit everywhere, it is a lot more than a sketching class. If you want to try it out to see if it fits you and if it is to the level you expect, you have the 30-day money back guarantee. So I’d refund 100% of the payment if you don’t like it. My objective is that people actually progress and enjoy their work more. If you are not happy with the course, then I don’t deserve your money. I struggled a lot with this in the past which is why I’m happy when I see how the students improve their work. That’s what I want for you too.
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- COMPLETE COURSE: “Become a Creative Sketcher & Sell Your Ideas”
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- COMPLETE COURSE: “Become a Creative Sketcher & Sell Your Ideas”
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