Saturday
General Art/Anime/Cartooning Classes
Turner Studio Only
artKids Process Art (4 to 7 yrs)
9.00 – 10.00 am
General artKids (8 to 14 yrs)
10.30 – 12.00 pm
Process art class: This one hour class puts the emphasis on making, doing and experimenting with different art mediums. While there is a class structure, activities focuses on the process – not the end result. Find out more about the Benefits of Process Art.
General artKids: Encourages exploration through art techniques and mediums. It teaches creative-thinking skills as children discover there are no mistakes or flops in art, only ‘flopportunities’!
General art is based on our after-school structured art classes and are not suitable for children who don’t currently attend school. If you have an interested 4 year old, please enrol in our Process Art classes.
Class is held at our artKids Studio space in Turner only.
Fees: Term fees and Once-off Paid Trial.
Note: classes run on long weekends except where the public holiday falls on a Saturday (Easter). No refunds available. Students can attend a make-up class at one of our after-school locations or put towards holiday sessions.
Not sure? A once-off paid Trial class is available at single session cost. Email admin@artkidsaustralia.com to book a trial.
NEW! artKids Cartoon/Kawaii
(7 yr+)
10.30 am-12.00 pm
Students learn foundation drawing skills for cartooning and Kawaii ‘cute’ drawing styles (think Pokemon, Hello Kitty, etc).
Classes cover facial features, hair styles, body postures, accessories, etc for both human and animal characters.
Learn the fundamentals of visual storytelling using cartoon features such as exaggeration, simplification, etc, as students develop their own characters (Hero/Villain) in a comic-strip format.
Fee: Term fees and Once-off Paid Trial.
Note: classes run on long weekends except where the public holiday falls on a Saturday (Easter). No refunds available. Students can attend a make-up class at one of our after-school locations or put towards holiday sessions.
Not sure? A once-off paid Trial class is available at single session cost. Email admin@artkidsaustralia.com to book a trial.
NEW for Sept/Oct School holidays: Our Anime/Manga Foundation Skills for 9yrs+ will start! Stay tuned! It will be run over three consecutive afternoons (Mon-Wed) 12.30 – 3.30 pm. Once completed, students can opt into our Saturday afternoon Anime/Manga Clubs to practice and build on their skills via specific tutor-led projects as well as developing their own characters, worlds and stories..
For Term 3 we will be running three paid trial dates for new students.
Kids learn the basics of Anime/Manga style drawing, offered over two class times. Please note the classes are identical, offering parents different timeslots to suit Saturday activities.
Classes cover facial features, hair, body postures, accessories, etc for human and animal characters.
Practice with different mediums including pencil, fineliners, graphic markers and inks as they explore their character.
Kids create a Character Sheet as they explore their character identity.
We explore storytelling in comic format including character development, scene setting, close ups, zoom ins, as well as cartoon techniques such as exaggeration and simplification.
Kids are encouraged to develop their own style within their favoured genre and will create an A3 multi-panel comic at the end of the term.
Fees: Term fees and Once-off Paid Trial.
Note: we run classes on Saturdays where there is a public holiday Monday – no refunds given, however you may attend a make up session. No classes held over Easter weekend.
Not sure? A once-off paid Trial class is available at single session cost. Email admin@artkidsaustralia.com to book a trial. We will be offering three trial dates in term 3 TBC.
After completing the Foundation Skills classes run in our School Holiday programs (or showing examples of their current skills), kids can join this class with a focus on individual character and/or comic strip development at their own pace. The class operates alongside our Foundation class, with more one-on-one feedback.
Kids refine their skills in drawing facial features, hair, body postures, accessories, etc for human and animal characters. They create several Character Sheets as they explore multiple characters, for example, side-kicks and villains.
Practice with different mediums including pencil, fineliners, graphic markers and inks as they explore their character.
A greater emphasis on body movement using perspective to draw characters in action.
Explore story development using comics and storyboards.
Kids are encouraged to develop their own style within their favoured genre with the view to creating their own comic.
Fees: Term fees and Once-off Paid Trial.
Note: we run classes on Saturdays where there is a public holiday Monday – no refunds given, however you may attend a make up session. No classes held over Easter weekend.
Not sure? A once-off paid Trial class is available at single session cost. Email admin@artkidsaustralia.com to book a trial.
We focus on building foundation drawing skills required to progress further with art and drawing.
Observational skills – we learn to really draw what we ‘see’ not what we ‘think’ we see.
Mark-making skills – pressure, direction, speed and angles.
Sketching – seeing simple shapes within objects.
Still-life drawing
Understanding tone and creating texture
Exploring perspective