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Unleash your creative side with a wide variety of drawing classes in Los Angeles. Learn the fundamentals of sketching, shading, and composition, and discover the joy of expressing yourself through art.

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Basic Inking for Comics & Cartoons

Santa Monica College @ SMC Bundy Campus, Santa Monica, CA

No comic or cartoon is truly finished until it’s been inked. Inking adds that all-important layer of clarity, depth, and “believability” to penciled art. In a hands-on course that demystifies the process, learn the basic inking techniques most commonly used for cartoons and comic books. Students with all levels of drawing skills are welcome, but novices may wish to take Creating Comics & Graphic Novels first. Remember: It’s not over...

(513) All levels 18 and older
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$99

6 sessions

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Creating Comics & Graphic Novels, Part II

Santa Monica College @ SMC Bundy Campus, Santa Monica, CA

Improve your penciling and inking techniques and expand your writing and visual storytelling skills to make your comic books and graphic novels spark! Explore how to create your own characters and stories—and complete a concept bible and/or an 8-page mini-comic/ashcan—in this very hands-on workshop, which mixes lectures, demonstrations, and technique development. All levels of art experience welcome, but novices are encouraged to first take...

(513) All levels 18 and older
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$99

6 sessions

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Basic Shoe Design (10 weeks)

De. Core Art & Design @ 41 S Chester Ave, Pasadena, CA

You will gain understanding about shoe/footwear design and exploring a variety of footwear sketch. During class sessions, each student is going to develop their own shoe design from sketching to rendering. This class is for entrance level of students who need to learn how to build their portfolio to be a footwear designer. In this class, our instructors will teach you about the basic design process on how to draw a shoe Syllabus: Introduction...

(1) Beginner 14 and older
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$400

5 sessions

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Manga Drawing 101

Santa Monica College @ SMC Bundy Campus, Santa Monica, CA

Learn how to draw monsters, heroes, samurai, pretty girls, cutesy characters, and giant robots in the popular Japanese-manga style. Explore all the basics of the genre, including manga proportions and stylistic features of the face, along with character development, inking, and coloring.  All skill levels are welcome!

(513) All levels 18 and older
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$99

6 sessions

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Intro to Dynamic Sketch

De. Core Art & Design @ 41 S Chester Ave, Pasadena, CA

Class is for beginning level students who are interested in industrial design. Even though students have no experience in art or design, this class will guide students to sketch easily anything from simple objects to complicate forms. Requirement Prismacolor Colored Pencil Ball Point Pen / Felt Tip Pen Sketchbook / Letter size papers Markersi Pad Pro / Apple Pencil Line/ Shape Get comfortable with line and shape Understanding using different...

(1) Beginner 13 and older
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$375

5 sessions

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Life Drawing - Quick Poses

El Camino College @ 16007 Crenshaw Blvd El Camino, Torrance, CA

Join us for a relaxing Sunday as we open our doors to the Life Drawing and Painting marathon.  In the morning session (10am-1pm), we will be offering quick and moderate-length poses.  In the afternoon session (2pm-5pm), we will be offering a single three-hour pose.  Open for all artists interested in painting or drawing the nude model. Bring your own drawing and painting materials. Must be 18 years or older to attend.

(174) All levels 18 and older
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Life Drawing Marathon

El Camino College @ 16007 Crenshaw Blvd El Camino, Torrance, CA

Join us for a relaxing Sunday as we open our doors to the life drawing and painting marathons. Two studios, one offering quick poses, the other offering one all-day pose, will be open for all artists interested in painting or drawing the nude model. Bring your own drawing and painting materials. This class has a materials fee of $5 to be paid directly to the instructor at the time of the first class. Note: Students under 18 years of age, must...

(174) All levels 18 and older
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Cartooning for Fun (& Profit)

Santa Monica College @ 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA

Would you like to be a cartoonist? Ever wonder how your favorite cartoons get into national publications? Introduce yourself to every facet of the cartoon art process, from concept to finished product. Through lectures, in-class demonstrations, and hands-on training, you’ll learn the techniques of professional cartooning, including a variety of drawing and inking methods, character development, gag-writing, and marketing. Q&A Q: Can someone...

(513) All levels 18 and older
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$123

6 sessions

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Life Drawing II

Santa Monica College @ 1227 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA

Learn to build upon basic observational drawing methods in an intensive workshop focused on anatomy. Working in colored pencil and graphite, 'travel' through the human body using simplified forms for skeletal and muscular anatomical structures. Workshop includes weekly detailed demonstration drawings and homework based on images collected on Pinterest. Some prior drawing experience recommended. Recommended textbook: Figure Drawing: Design and...

(513) Intermediate 18 and older
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$195

6 sessions

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Intro to Clip Studio

Studio Arts @ 1426 Flower St, Glendale, CA

So you have a great idea for a comic book, graphic novel or manga? Intro to Clip Studio Paint is where you begin. Clip Studio Paint, previously known as Manga Studio, is an industry-leading software for creating Manga, but has since reached far beyond and is now used by many western artists, including renowned comic book artists like Dave Gibbons of "Watchmen" fame. It combines features of more traditional creative applications like Photoshop and...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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$750

4 sessions

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Quick Sketch

Santa Monica College @ SMC Bundy Campus, Santa Monica, CA

In a beginning course, find out how to use quick sketch methods for conceptual design, to capture motion, for visual documentation, and as creative expression. Learn how to use a variety of techniques and drawing media--including line drawing, pen/ink, scribble lines, minimalism, and gesture drawing--to communicate, and engage in artistic exercises such as ambidextrous drawing and blind drawing to help enhance your hand-eye coordination. Please...

(513) Beginner 18 and older
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$129

5 sessions

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Comics A-Z

Valley Art Workshop @ 5210 Collier Place, Woodland Hills, CA

Designing Comic Covers and Interiors In this 4 hour workshop, Jason will lead students through the process of creating a narrative and then adapting it to one cover illustration and an associated comic page. Students will leave with a much clearer idea of how to develop and depict their ideas with depth and expression. Jason produces most of his comic work on an iPad, in the Procreate App. Students are welcome to bring any drawing or painting...

(7) All levels 10 and older
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$150
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Gnomon's School of Visual Effects

The Gallery Girls @ 1034 Cole Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Attendees will experience a fun social gathering of artists and models. Music - Live Models - Drawing - Crazy themes & Fun People! Presented by Gnomon's SKETCH THEATRE. "Pajama Party" Theme. Girls in cute lingerie!!! What else do you need? 3 hour Drawing Event Music  3 Models - 1 Stage  Free snacks & drinks  with Models: To Be Announced  25 min poses all night  Music by DJ Jason Savvy www.jasonsavvy.com/dj ...

(86) All levels 21 and older
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Portrait Drawing Workshop (Uninstructed)

Valley Art Workshop @ 5210 Collier Place, Woodland Hills, CA

This will be a one-time 3-hour pose with a new model. We have tables and chairs and 2 easels. Bring your own drawing and painting materials. We welcome all questions.

(7) All levels 10 and older
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Long Pose Portraiture

Valley Art Workshop @ 5210 Collier Place, Woodland Hills, CA

3 hour long pose with a new model each week. Drawing and painting materials welcome. We have easels, benches, chairs, and tables. Our workshops are designed as both professionally intensive and communally fun introductions to printmaking. Our larger service is to equip artists with the knowledge of how to combine traditional printmaking and the resource of a community printmaking studio with their own work.

(7) All levels 10 and older
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Sketching the Outdoors

East Los Angeles College @ 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Los Angeles, CA

Within this class students will learn techniques that will assist them in sketching the urban landscape. The instructor will guide the learner’s through exercises that implement elements of linear perspective, composition, modeling, color theory, and a variety of other methods. The class will be divided into 2 parts; classroom instruction and outdoor sketching around the ELAC campus. Class exercise mediums include color pencils, graphite pencils,...

(250) All levels 18 and older
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$70

5 sessions

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Project Eden: Watercolor Botanicals

The Makery Craft Co @ 423 S Brookhurst Ave, Anaheim, CA

In this Watercolor Botanicals Workshop, you will play with real foliage, study textures, light and shadow. You will learn the skills to render plants and other botanical elements in detail. This workshop is suitable for artists of all levels, whose work will focus on the different uses of varying brushes, shape and form, as well as multiple painting techniques needed to create beautiful, ever-changing, and unique horticultural portraits of fruits,...

(67) All levels 14 and older
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Facial Anatomy

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

Learn how to draw a portrait of a face and head, by exploring basic anatomy — bone structure, muscle mass, and proportion. Using live models and instructional materials, students will learn to observe and draw the different aspects of the skull and then to explore facial features and the expression of emotion. The class is for beginners as well as the advanced student wanting to brush up on drawing skills.

All levels 18 and older
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Drawing and Sketching

Los Angeles Harbor College Extension @ 1111 Figueroa Pl, Wilmington, CA

Have you always wanted to explore your artistic side? Then join this drawing and sketching offering for beginners and learn how to draw. Instruction will include the use of various techniques and styles that are fun and impressive. This course is designed to develop new and amateur artists. Material list: One 2B pencil One 2H pencil One HB pencil One sketch pad. (Please make sure you purchase a sketchpad of a size you feel comfortable carrying...

(10) Beginner 18 and older
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$59

5 sessions

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Sketching on Location

SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center

The attitude of a sketch is different from anything else…a way to catch a fleeting inspiration, or capture a bit of life in the moment, without the need for elaborate finishing and detail. Through sketching on location, we can experience a place in a very personal way. We will explore different locations in the South Pasadena area each week with a variety of media in sketchbook format.

All levels 6 and older
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