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🗓️ On Monday, November 23rd, I will open the registrations for my Master Illustration & Animation Courses (featuring 🎨 Flat Style, Deep Feelings and 🚲 Stories in Motion), with a HUGE DISCOUNT: the biggest of the year!
This is an opportunity you can't miss! Click below and sign up for the waiting list. You will hear from me as soon as registrations are open, and you will receive your Special Black Friday Discount!
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💫 What You’ll Unlock in my Courses
📚 15 Modules + Bonuses: Get over 13 hours of lessons blending character design, color theory, composition, timing, spacing, and expressive frame-by-frame movement. Learn to turn quiet feelings into clear, story-driven art that moves with intention and soul.
🧠 My Full Process Revealed: Go from capturing emotion in a gesture and shaping expressive characters, to understanding the mechanics of motion, animating personality, and layering atmospheric effects.
🎨 Two Final Projects: Move from concept to creation. You will design an emotional character scene brought to life with a subtle frame-by-frame GIF loop, and develop a polished, professional animation for your portfolio.
⚡ Real Principles, Real Artistry: Master shape language, color mood, and texture alongside core animation principles like arcs, squash and stretch, and rhythm. These skills translate the sensitivity of your style into motion.
⏯️ 100% Self-Paced Learning: Revisit over 60 step-by-step videos whenever you want. Draw and animate at your own rhythm, watching your characters come to life completely pressure-free.
💻 App-Agnostic Workflow: Whether you use Procreate, Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, Krita, or Affinity, these techniques work seamlessly in the software you already love.
📥 Massive Resource Vault: Get exclusive color-emotion palettes, texture packs, composition guides, style-discovery sheets, timing chart cheat sheets, walk-cycle key pose overviews, and personal storytelling prompt lists.
🔥 Beginner-to-Intermediate Friendly: Created specifically for illustrators and artists who want their work to breathe and speak with emotion, clarity, and heart.
NICE TO MEET YOU!
Hey, I’m Darja, but most people online know me as @darja.draws.
I’m an illustrator and designer based in Austria, obsessed with creating art that feels soft, thoughtful, and full of emotion.
I’ve always been fascinated by how simple marks can hold a story, and over time, that curiosity naturally extended into motion. How a small gesture can unfold, how timing can shift a feeling, and how even the simplest animation can make a moment feel truly alive.
When I’m not drawing, I work on projects like Cappymind, Oh Sketch (my idea-generation app for artists) and Dariko, my creative shop where I turn illustrations into prints and everyday art.
Now, I’m bringing all of that experience into Stories in Motion—a step-by-step journey into frame-by-frame animation for illustrators who want to add life and emotion to their work.
If you’ve ever wanted your art to speak without words, you’ll feel right at home here.
See you inside,
– Daria 🧡
