This ongoing illustration class will explore different techniques, styles and subjects each week. We 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
       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: figure drawing, animals, chibi, kawaii, video games, movies, book art, landscapes, anime, manga, fashion design, architecture and more!

EXPERIENCE: This is a Beginner class

⚡️ Even if your learner has Procreate experience, if they do not have foundational drawing skills, please start here, at the Beginner class, where they will learn them fast!! I will let you know when it’s time for your learner to move to intermediate or a cohort!ivity_link

MORE about this class:

✨ 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. We work step-by-step each class to begin to create something new in Procreate so learners can follow along, and when  they feel comfortable more advanced students can work at their own pace, modify and enhance their prompt with feedback and guidance from me! 

✨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, my 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 December 9: Harry Potter Pets & Creatures-devils snare, mandrake (requested)
Week of December 16: Cluck Avengers or Ratatouille (villain backstory) (requested)
Week of December 23: Japanese Dragons (Tallulah’s references-requested!)
Week of December 30: Ship of Fools or Just Shapes and Beats-boss battle, long live the new fresh (requested)
Week of January 6: Capibara or Gravity Falls (requested)
Week of January 13: Care Bears or Snowflakes (requested)
Week of January 20: Amphibea or a Bumblebee (requested)
Week of January 27: Make a brush & settings (color dynamics, shape, texture and more) (requested)
Week of February 3: Claire's cat, Hunter! (requested)
Week of February 10: Eden's Chihuahuas!  Skye and Lumen (requested)
Week of February 17: Baby snake or blue cat (requested)
Week of February 24: Avatar the Last AirBender or cactus (requested)
Week of March 3: Dandy's World or Centaur World (requested)
Week of March 10: My Little Pony Gen 4 or Hands, wrists, elbows (requested)
Week of March 17: How to Train Your Dragon (requested)
Week of March 24: DND Birds or Half Human-Half Cat/Dragon (requested)
Week of March 31: Fabulous Beasts  (requested)
Week of April 7: Sprout, June's chicken or Olivia Rodrigo (requested)
Week of April 14: Human gestures or hands or eyes (requested)
Week of April 21: Moo Deng the Hippo or Dandy’s World (requested)
Week of April 28: Crap Taxidermy Book or Tacos (requested)
Week of May 12: Pony or Minecraft (requested)
Week of May 19: Ember graphic novel or Disco dragon (requested)
Week of May 26: Invader Zim from Anarya or Unicorn with a floatie (requested)
Week of June 2: Wallace & Grommet or Shopkins (requested)
Week of June 9: Roblox (any) or Gotcha Life 2 (requested)
Week of June 16: Gravity Falls or Avatar Last Airbender (requested)
Week of June 23: Kitsune or Wolfblood the show (requested)
Week of June 30: Loud House or 
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!