Hello and Happy New Year! I hope the first week of 2024 has eased you in smoothly.

Whether you’re bursting with motivation for the new year, or still easing in a little like me, I thought it would be fun to kick the year off with a January giveaway across my whole catalogue of classes. Read on for the giveaway details and the list of classes to choose from below.

GIVEAWAY DETAILS

The Prize:

One year of Skillshare Membership

How to enter:

1. Post your project in any of my classes

2. Leave a review in any of my classes

+ bonus entry for each new project posted

+ bonus entry: post your project/s on Instagram and tag me @sarahholliday

Deadline:

Wednesday 31st January

The winner will be chosen at random and announced shortly after the closing date.

Ps. If you’re already subscribed to Skillshare and you win, the prize will be added on to your existing subscription (so will be valid for one extra year after your existing subscription expires).

If you don’t know where to start, here’s a little about each of my classes in order from easiest to most advanced:

1. Flowers & Foliage: Drawing Plants & Botanical Illustrations in Procreate

This is a relaxing, slow paced class focusing on stylising and simplifying shapes to create our own unique plant designs. It’s my most beginner friendly and low-pressure project to complete as we focus on the drawing process rather than creating a polished piece.

2. Live Encore: Drawing Stunning & Stylized Trees

Another very beginner friendly class, this one was filmed live with an online zoom audience following along. It’s a simple but fun project that you can follow along with as we go to create a range of stylised trees.

3. Drawing Houses in Procreate: Illustrate a Unique, Imaginative Home

This is also a beginner friendly class while covering a lot of in-depth techniques, and is my most comprehensive class for learning how to use Procreate. Even if you already know how to use Procreate, there’s a lot of information about finding inspiration, using shapes, rendering materials, adding character, and using colour, while guiding you step-by-step through creating an imaginative house packed full of personality. It’s a much more meaty project than the first two if you’re looking for something to get your teeth stuck into!

4. Illustrated Environments: Draw a Stylised Landscape Scene in Procreate

One of my most well-loved classes on the platform, this class is extremely value-packed and covers topics such as depth, perspective, composition, shape language, lighting & atmospheric effects, along with guiding you through my own creative workflow to complete an imaginative landscape scene. It’s definitely one of my more challenging classes so I’d recommend it for intermediate learners, but ambitious beginners looking for a challenge can certainly follow along too! It’s well worth a visit to the project gallery to see all the amazing artwork that has been created by students in this class.

5. Drawing People: Creating Unique and Dynamic Character Poses in Procreate

By far my most popular class on the platform with over 23k students, this class guides you through how to design characters using shape language and draw them consistently in dynamic poses. While we do cover how to study poses from reference photos, the focus is on drawing and posing people in a stylised way. It was the first class I ever made and I’m still amazed by how well-loved the class continues to be.

6. Character Illustration: Drawing Expressive Gestures & Poses in Procreate

This class was made as a follow up to Drawing People, and I’d consider it my most challenging out of the bunch. This class covers how to understand and use body language, hand gestures, and facial expressions to create expressive character poses that tell a story, with the final project being to illustrate two characters interacting in a scene. This is a great class for aspiring animators, character designers, picture book illustrators, or storytellers of any kind.

If you’ve taken any of these classes, I’d love to know if there was any lesson or “aha!” moment that particularly helped you, or something you’d love to learn more about in future?

As always, I love to read your kind reviews, and see your wonderful projects, so I can’t wait to see what this challenge inspires!

Have fun with it and happy drawing!

Sarah x

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