About This Workshop
About This Workshop
Kickstart your creativity with this fun, 4-week drawing workshop! You’ll complete a series of three classes that are packed with exercises designed to help you find inspiration, polish your illustration skills, and cultivate a style that’s entirely your own. Along the way, you’ll complete project prompts and share work for feedback. Whether you’re an illustration pro or haven’t drawn since grade school, you’re sure to walk away from this workshop with some fun new tricks. All you’ll need: the pencils, markers, erasers, and paper of your choice.
Workshop Timeline
- Milestone 1: First up, join illustrator Ira Marcks in Cartooning: Drawing Faces and Expressions. You’ll learn the basic techniques for designing a cartoon face and explore the visual language of facial expressions by studying the look of a wide variety of popular cartoon characters. Share your character in the Project Gallery by April 29th.
- Milestone 2: Next, join artist and writer Meera Lee Patel in Drawing for Personal Growth: 5 Exercises for Self Discovery. Cultivate self-reflection and foster inspiration through five simple exercises that will help you center your thoughts, get to know yourself, and envision a future you can’t wait to create. Share your self-reflection exercise in the Project Gallery by May 8th.
- Milestone 3: Lastly, join illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt in Making Your First Zine: From Idea to Illustration with. This class is full of history, ideas, and illustration tips to free your imagination and help you create an empowering little piece of print. By the end, you’ll have your own one-page zine to share in the Project Gallery by May 18th.
Classes
Projects
Students
Classes
Projects
Students
Kickstart your creativity with this fun, 4-week drawing workshop! You’ll complete a series of three classes that are packed with exercises designed to help you find inspiration, polish your illustration skills, and cultivate a style that’s entirely your own. Along the way, you’ll complete project prompts and share work for feedback. Whether you’re an illustration pro or haven’t drawn since grade school, you’re sure to walk away from this workshop with some fun new tricks. All you’ll need: the pencils, markers, erasers, and paper of your choice.
Workshop Timeline
- Milestone 1: First up, join illustrator Ira Marcks in Cartooning: Drawing Faces and Expressions. You’ll learn the basic techniques for designing a cartoon face and explore the visual language of facial expressions by studying the look of a wide variety of popular cartoon characters. Share your character in the Project Gallery by April 29th.
- Milestone 2: Next, join artist and writer Meera Lee Patel in Drawing for Personal Growth: 5 Exercises for Self Discovery. Cultivate self-reflection and foster inspiration through five simple exercises that will help you center your thoughts, get to know yourself, and envision a future you can’t wait to create. Share your self-reflection exercise in the Project Gallery by May 8th.
- Milestone 3: Lastly, join illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt in Making Your First Zine: From Idea to Illustration with. This class is full of history, ideas, and illustration tips to free your imagination and help you create an empowering little piece of print. By the end, you’ll have your own one-page zine to share in the Project Gallery by May 18th.
