2 hours weekly, online: $150 monthly in-studio:  $170 monthly

High-quality art materials are included into the in-studio price. Sibling 15% off)

teacher: Ali Naqvi

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.​

ONLINE $150 monthly:
Wednesday 4:15pm - 6:15pm
Friday 4:15pm - 6:15pm
SAN JOSE, $170 monthly:  Sunday 11am - 1pm 
SAN FRANCISCO, $170 monthly:  
Thursday 3:30 - 5:30pm 
Sunday 3:30 - 5:30pm

iPad requirements for students interested in drawing in ProCreate:

• 12.9-inch iPad Pro (2015, 2017 and 2018 models)

• 11-inch iPad Pro

• 10.5-inch iPad Pro

• 9.7-inch iPad Pro

• iPad (6th generation/2018 model)

• iPad (5th generation/2017 model)

• iPad Air 3

• iPad Air 2

• iPad Air

• iPad mini 5

• iPad mini 4

• iPad mini 3

• iPad mini 2

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Topics covered:

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• 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

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Refund Policy:

We are not offering refunds for new purchases. However, full credit towards future bookings or transfer to another camp/class will be offered for any cancellations made up to 24 hrs before the camp or class start. 

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