Ages 8-13 | Meets once a week, ongoing | 50 minutes | $18/week

In our friendly, project-based Procreate digital art class, students create a new work each week from a wide range of subjects, including animals, botanicals, landscapes and people to characters and backgrounds in cartoons, video games, comic books and movies, when requested! You’ll learn and practice the fundamentals of drawing, color, design and more while having fun with other creative kids!

✨ Students will learn to SEE like an artist, practicing observational skills along with tools and techniques for constructing a drawing and adding detail, color and dimension! Guided step-by-step by a professional artist-mentor, they’ll learn to experiment, problem-solve and make decisions and learn to trust themselves through persevering through failures and disappointments through to success!

Over time students learn how shape, line and form can be found even in the most complicated references. We teach young artists how to use digital art tools in Procreate to find perspective, fix proportions and experiment with color choices so they can find their voice, learning to put themselves into their art. Our teaching style will have even your most reluctant or perfectionist young artist excited to dive in again and again!

✨ SCHEDULE ✨

Every class has a new subject each week based on student requests! Subjects vary a lot, from dolphins, dragons, people, amphibians to fandoms like Gravity Falls, Pokémon, Squishmallows, Wings of Fire, Bluey and more! The following schedule is a representation of the tools and concepts you’ll get to learn along the way!

Week of Nov. 3: Botanical Drawings
Week of Nov. 10: Dragon
Week of Nov. 17: Cats
Week of Nov. 24: Color and Light
Week of Dec. 1: Animated Snowfall
Week of Dec. 8: Value in Landscape
Week of Dec. 15: Candy Shop
Week of Dec. 22: Human Gestures
Week of Dec. 29: Faces
Week of Jan. 5: Cake
More dates and topics are added ongoing!

✨ Our young artists tend to stay for years, developing and discovering their intuition for what brings them joy and delight, discovering their voice and ability to express it with growing skills! Learners form connections & friendships with other creative kids & leave our class each week feeling confident & excited to keep practicing!

✨ Learners have the opportunity to get individual feedback each week.

✨ EXPERIENCE LEVEL ✨
This class is suitable for beginners who have little to no experience in Procreate or formal drawing instruction. As students begin to develop skills, they can add more detail and move faster than newer students, and eventually move to our Intermediate and Advanced Procreate classes at Young Illustrators Studio!

✨ GROWTH MINDSET ✨
In our classes, we are building a multi-layered scaffolding of the love of learning that is rooted in the idea that we can find inspiration every day to start again right where we are, finding satisfaction and pride in seeing our progress! Learners who stick with our classes over time come to believe that experimenting, problem solving, setbacks, re-trying and breakthroughs among the support, kindness and inspiration of peers and qualified mentors leads to more flexibility, innovation, courage and self-confidence in not only their art skills, but in all other areas of life! And we have a lot of fun doing it!

✨ We use targeted practice to break down the mechanics of a complex and difficult skill like art into achievable steps, while having fun and building connections and friendships over what we love and struggle with in the art process!

✨ We focus on learning and process—most classes will not end with a “finished” piece. Instead, students will build and practice the tools and techniques needed to continue with the piece between classes!

✨ PRACTICE ✨

Learners are exposed to a variety of styles and tools each week that build their visual vocabulary: brushes, smudge tools, eraser textures, color palettes, transparencies, adjustment tools, line weight and style, lighting, shadow, shading, perspective, foreshortening, texture and more. Each week is different, and provides a steady practice that builds over time into confidence and trusted intuition!

✨ We teach learners how to find joy and delight in their practice, which motivates them to do it more.

✨ You can join anytime.

✨ This class is collaborative--We want to know what you love to make art about? What do you want to get better at?

✨ During sharing time, mics are allowed to be kept on. During draw-along, learners are encouraged to ask for feedback and ask questions out loud or in the chat. If a learner has background noise, they will be asked to keep their mic muted when not speaking. We make art from all learner interests, including: figure drawing, animals, chibi, kawaii, video games, movies, book art, landscapes, anime, manga, fashion design, architecture and more!

✨This is an inclusive, safe space where everyone can feel empowered to be themselves and create art that reflects the world they dream about! • Bring your ideas and an open mind! • Classes may run up to ten minutes late depending on sharing, learner questions and discussion.