Drawing My Singing Monsters | Step-By-Step Game Art Class

🎬 MAGGIE WEHLER, PROFESSIONAL ANIMATOR AND ILLUSTRATOR: Maggie Wehler is a freelance animator and illustrator who has worked on a multitude of indie video games and indie animation projects! As she loved video games and cartoons as a child, she began drawing digitally in middle school and hasn’t stopped since! Taking that passion, she took online classes through the Academy of Art University in highschool and then pursued a degree in Film & Animation at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she also completed a minor in Game Design. After college, Maggie attended the Disney College Program and worked at the Walt Disney World Parks in Florida while attending seminar classes with Disney artists and designers! She also makes freelance animated videos for the Youtube channel Psych2Go, which has over 11 million subscribers! Maggie firmly believes that everyone deserves to have a space to create, all art forms are valid, and any art fundamentals can be learned through drawing characters you love to draw! Other than drawing, Maggie enjoys playing video games like Splatoon and Monster Hunter, along with watching movies, anime and reading graphic novels.

KAITLYN SYDELLE, ANIME COMIC ARTIST 💪: Kaitlyn Lancaster is an experienced, award-winning comic artist with several self-published titles to her name. She holds a B.F.A. in Graphic Design with an emphasis in Illustration from CSU Fresno. Since 2013, she has been professionally teaching comics and anime/manga classes to artists of all ages, ranging from 1-on-1 elementary sessions to college-level classrooms. Kaitlyn is deeply passionate about enabling individuals to experience the confident joy of translating their ideas onto paper and witnessing their worlds come to life. She is active on the comic convention circuit and runs her own small business pursuing her childhood dream of bringing her stories, worlds, and characters to life. She had to grind to make it a success, and she longs to make it a little easier with the next generation of young dreamers by sharing all the secrets she’s learned along the way. She knows that there is no such thing as a "bad" art style and asserts that anyone can draw if given the opportunity. In her classes, Kaitlyn guides her students in developing the styles they enjoy, whether it's honing their own signature style or exploring new techniques. Beyond her artistic pursuits, Kaitlyn enjoys studying foreign languages and practicing martial arts to keep both her mind and body active.