Learners will come away from this program with a strong understanding of how to digitize their sketches, confidence with photographing sketches, bringing their sketches into photoshop, and understand the tools needed in photoshop to create the digital version of their cartoon characters. 

Sharon's educational studies include art with a  focus on interpretive and sequential illustration  from which she  graduated in 2002. Sharon went on to study creative writing as well as pursue continued learning in storyboard art and has earned certificates in character and world design as well as art history. 

Sharon has worked as an in house graphic designer, worked in sculpture fabrication, freelance illustration and portrait work; she has participated in many art shows and competitions across North America and her work can be found in private collections and galleries in Canada, the US, and Mexico. Sharon has illustrated three published children’s books, as well as a few that never made it to print.