Courses
Every course, from a first line to drawing from life
42 courses in three age groups, with 350 lessons ready today of the 569 in the plan. Every age group has one course that’s free for good, and the first unit of every other course is free too.
Ages 5 to 7
Little Artists
Big friendly shapes, bold markers and crayons. Every picture starts with a shape you already know.
10 courses, 91 lessons, 12.5 hours
Shapes into pictures Start here
The five marks, the five shapes, then pictures of growing complexity built from them.
My world
People, the machines children love, and pictures with a place and a story in them.
Colour, looking and artists
Colour to choose and mix, the habit of drawing real things, and ideas from artists.
Ages 8 to 12
Young Artists
Draw it light, ink it, colour it. Characters, places and real life, built from shapes the way illustrators work.
16 courses, 133 lessons, 36 hours
Draw in 3D Start here
The nine depth tricks, perspective for real, then light and shadow.
Characters
From animal characters to faces, whole people and creatures of your own design.
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Easy Cartoon Critters
13 lessons 3.5 hours Free course - Easy
Faces and Feelings
7 lessons 1.5 hours First unit free - Easy to intermediate
Cartoon People
6 lessons 1.5 hours First unit free - Intermediate
Creature Workshop
9 lessons 2.5 hours First unit free - Easy to intermediate
Manga Style
4 lessons 1 hour Coming soon
Worlds and stories
Places, then stories told across panels, then single pictures that tell a story.
Real life, colour and artists
Realistic animals, drawing from life, coloured pencil and ideas from artists.
Ages 13 and up
Foundations
Line, form, light and measurement: the skills under every good drawing, taught the way a drawing teacher would.
16 courses, 126 lessons, 54 hours
Fundamentals Start here
Lines, ellipses and boxes; perspective; value on form; then construction.
Learning to see
Seeing and measuring, then still life, master copies and sketching the world.
People
Gesture first, then the figure’s structure and proportion, then the head.
Animals and nature
Construction and measurement applied to living things and places.
Colour
Hue, value and chroma, harmony, temperature and colour in light.
Illustration
Planning pictures that read, and designing the characters in them.
Learning paths
Not sure where to start? Follow a path.
Paths put the courses in order for what you want to draw, with a version for every age group.
Start with a free course
Make a free account for your family and every age group’s free course is open straight away, with no card to enter.