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Sketching for Kids (Ages 8-12)

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  • 8 - 12 years old
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  • 42 hours over 21 sessions

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Class Description

Description

Dive into the comic world with our (Traditional or Digital) Sketching class!

Designed for kids who want to draw characters from their favourite games, movies and books. Taught by professional game design artist Ali Naqvi, this class will focus on teaching drawing fundamentals to students 8-12 years old. Students will learn to draw realistic and comic figures from scratch, create vehicles and locations, and tell stories through comic panelling.

Students can bring either sketchbooks or Digital Tablets, the instruction will be provided for both digital and traditional media.

Topics covered:

  • Perspective
    • 1 point perspective
    • 2 point perspective +
    • 3 point perspective
  • Thumbnails
    • Creating smaller sketches to prioritize areas of interest
  • Lights and values
    • Gradients vs sudden value changes and how these changes are interpreted
    • Proper shading techniques
    • Separation of positive and negative space
  • Simple Still Life with fruits and vegetables
  • Stylized anatomy
  • Stylized facial features
    • Stylized self portrait
  • Anime
    • How to draw anime eyes
  • Realistic Anatomy
    • Torso
    • Arms
    • Legs
    • neck
    • Hands and Feet
  • Realistic facial proportions
  • How to draw different parts of the face
    • Eyes, nose, ears
  • Sketching Renaissance era statues
  • Creating from imagination
    • How to use simple shapes to create more complicated forms
    • How to make shapes, straight lines and curves
  • Drawing cars
  • Drawing planes
  • Sketching mammals
  • Sketching reptiles
    • Identifying characteristics such as eyes, scales and facial proportions
  • Drawing birds
  • Hybrid animals
  • Imaginary animals
  • Spotlights
    • Marvel
    • DC
    • Disney
    • Manga

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

We do not provide refunds for ongoing classes tuition, courses or camps payments.

  • However, full credit towards future booking or transfer to another camp/course will be offered for any cancellations made up to 2 business days before the camp or course starts.
  • Ongoing classes can be canceled with a 31 business days prior notice.

You can make up a missed class on another day when we offer the same age/skill group class. The make-up class should be arranged in advance, no drop-ins. Limit 2 make-up classes per month. Make-up classes are subject to the availability of space in a similar class. We reserve the right not to provide make-up classes or terminate the class enrollment for repeating truancy.

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Art School of SF Bay

The Art School of SF Bay offers creative and approachable classes in representational drawing from nature for kids and adults. Their skilled artists teach traditional disciplines and techniques to help students fully express themselves through art.

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