Kick off your day with creative and fun warm-up games designed to help you let go of perfectionism, embrace the freedom of exploration and overcome the fear of the blank page. By engaging in spontaneous, unstructured drawing, you’ll build confidence and develop a better understanding of how to loosen up and let your imagination take the lead.

Who says sketching is only for pencils? This exercise encourages you to break free from traditional sketching tools and experiment with using watercolors as a dynamic medium for sketching, encouraging you to dive right in with your brush and use fluid strokes to capture the essence of your subject.

This exercise pushes you to combine the power of imagination with inspiration from the natural world. You’ll explore how to create characters and designs rooted in both fantasy and real-world elements. Then, you’ll take inspiration from the natural world by merging organic elements into your character’s look.

In this exercise, you’ll explore techniques for guiding the viewer’s eye across the page. You’ll also practice harnessing your creativity through spontaneous exercises that push you to think on your feet and collaborate with others.

How well can you trust your memory? Drawing from memory is an excellent way to strengthen your visual recall and push your understanding of form. This exercise will challenge you to recreate familiar animals with and without reference, testing your observation skills and building your mental library.

Expressing emotion through drawing is key to bringing your characters and scenes to life. This exercise focuses on conveying mood and feeling through facial expressions and body language, helping you improve your ability to communicate emotions visually.

Life drawing helps you capture the energy and movement of your subject, builds your confidence in sketching live environments and human anatomy, and gives your work a sense of realism. This exercise is designed to sharpen your observation skills by drawing real-life settings and figures.

This exercise focuses on working out your ability to capture both likeness and emotion through memory and reference. You’ll challenge yourself to convey a subject’s personality and emotions,  draw from memory, and turn an everyday object—like your shoe—into a monster!

Character design and reference drawing combine in this final exercise, where you'll re-imagine an iconic figure. Using their distinct features as your foundation, you’ll bring your own creative interpretation to the characters while preserving the essence and storytelling elements that made their original designs legendary.