All Levels Procreate Digital Art Club: Learn to Draw Anime & Manga

This is a FUN, mics-on, friendly class, where kids can share their excitement for anime and manga with friends! 

This ongoing Procreate class will explore different anime and manga subjects each week. We move step-by-step to practice observational skills using new references each week, a variety of brushes, smudge tools, eraser textures, color palettes, 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!

Our classes are anchored in kindness, affirmations and fun! We do not use competitions or comparing. Constructive, hamburger-style critiques are offered by the teacher at the student’s request (and many feel safe and confident to ask!). There is a variety of skill level in each group, and we validate and help kids feel good about wherever their skill is. Kids love to share their art and bond over what they love and struggle with. Skills build with time and practice!

✨  We teach kids how to find joy and delight in their practice, which motivates them to do it more. We teach them to see shape, line and form in the most complex references, which builds the confidence to draw, texturize, style and create art from literally anything you can imagine or see!

✅ Procreate Skills:
👉🏼 layers                           👉🏼 color selection
👉🏼 opacity                        👉🏼 color palettes 
👉🏼 selection tool              👉🏼 transform tools
👉🏼 drawing guides           👉🏼 drop fills
👉🏼 animation                    👉🏼 quick shapes
👉🏼 brushes                       👉🏼 textures
👉🏼 saving files                  👉🏼 file size/DPI/resolution
👉🏼 and so much more!

✅ Artist Skills:
👉🏼 color theory                 👉🏼 line
👉🏼 light & shadow            👉🏼 shape
👉🏼 composition                👉🏼 gradients
👉🏼 textures with               👉🏼 seeing the line and shape in references
       multiple brushes        👉🏼 simplifying/stylizing
👉🏼 value                            👉🏼 gesture
👉🏼 sketching loose          👉🏼 mood
👉🏼 trusting instincts        👉🏼 expanding interests
👉🏼 failure=growth           👉🏼 experimenting
👉🏼 and so much more!

💥 By trying and practicing a variety of techniques, learners will develop their own style and begin to trust their intuition as their visual vocabulary expands!

👉🏼  Growth Mindset: Over time our students feel powerful and capable in many other areas of life because the work they’ve done in our class shows them that they can do hard things, and they can stick with it.

🤓 All while connecting and laughing together with friends! We work on a variety of subjects based on what kids are asking for: manga, anime, Sailor Moon, Genshin Impact, Jujutsu Kaisen, Spirited Away, Studio Ghibli, My Neighbor Totoro, Sonic, Chi's Sweet Home, Pokemon, Kirby, Haru and more!

EXPERIENCE: This is a Beginner to Advanced class that's more like a club! We will work step-by-step for learners just starting out, while more advanced students can move ahead adding nuance, detail and style with the guidance of the teacher!

✨ We practice and discuss the process of art making, from fundamentals like line, shape, value and color, to connecting over what we love, what we struggle with, how to persevere through doubt and disappointment in our art making and ultimately learn how to trust the process and develop trust in our intuition.

✨ We have time to share work and connect over shared interests at the beginning and end of each class! Students do not have to share and it’s never a big deal to pass. Chatting and sharing happen mostly at the beginning and end of class, with the majority of time in the middle spent on step-by-step focused work.

✨ 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!

✨ You can join anytime or pop in whenever it fits in your schedule!

✨Students who want to practice even more, look for one of my self-paced classes to get started! https://outschool.com/classes/4e448664-e6dc-4d6a-8a2c-f0aa08c16445/schedule

✨ This class is collaborative--I want to know what you love to make art about? What do you want to get better at? What do you think of the illustration world/design world? What do you want to know about having a job as an illustrator? I will find a way to incorporate all ideas into classes (as long as they are age-appropriate 😉 :)

✨ Over time, our classes give students the skills and confidence they need to draw and paint anything, anywhere, anytime, and the intuition to create from inside, not for trends.

✨ Many of my students stay with me for years, and when you age out of this group I encourage you to join a teen or cohort class :)

🏳️‍🌈✊🏽 ✨This is an inclusive, anti-racist, LGBTQIA+ safe space where every member 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. • Mics ON is allowed and encouraged (assuming no background noise-in which case just mute while not talking)!

TOPICS SCHEDULE:
(Almost all topics are student-driven requests at this point. So sometimes our topics might change, as I make an effort to combine requests as best I can so we can get through more of them faster! Feel free to message me to confirm topics)


Week of January 27: My Hero Academia
Week of February 3: Sailor Moon
Week of February 10: Pokemon
Week of February 17: Genshin Impact
Week of February 24: Jujutsu Kaisen
Week of March 3: Deamon Slayer
Week of March 10: Gacha
Week of March 17: My Neighbor Totoro
Week of March 24: Naruto
Week of March 31: Sonic
Week of April 7: Haru
Week of April 14: City of Dragons
Week of April 21: Chi's Sweet Home
Week of April 28: One Piece
Week of May 12: 
Week of May 19: 
Week of May 26: 
Week of June 2: 
Week of June 9: 
Week of June 16: 
Week of June 23: 
Week of June 30: 
Week of July 7:

***SUMMER BREAK! Tentatively between July 11-August 4, 2025. Dates will be finalized by late-May!***

Week of August 4:
Week of August 11:
Week of August 18:
Week of August 25:
Week of September 1:



⏰Please note that there may be some weeks *off* throughout the year. 

❤️ Self-Paced Classes: If live classes don’t fit your schedule, you want more time for each project, or you simply want MORE of this class: please consider taking my self-paced classes. Self-paced classes are pre-recorded versions of this same class, with step-by-step instruction on making art from references, and you can watch them at your own pace! I plan to continue to build my library of self-paced classes, so send me your topic requests, follow me and check back often!