Saturday
General Art/Anime/Cartooning Classes
Turner Studio Only
artKids General art (5 to 12 yrs)
10.30 – 12.00 pm
Our artKids general class follows our after-school program, teaching art sills and techniques that are transferable between art mediums. Our program teaches creative-thinking skills as children discover there are no mistakes or flops in art, only ‘flopportunities’!
This class is for primary school-aged children as it is a structured class, requiring focus and reasonable fine motor skills. If you have an interested 4 year old, please head to our artTots 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.
artKids Cartoon/Kawaii
(7 yr+) 12.30-2.00 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.
Run weekly on Saturdays, our Anime Club brings together kids with the same passion for all things Anime! Before joining our Saturday class, we encourage our students to gain the basic drawing skills particular to Anime through our school holiday three-afternoon Anime/Manga Foundation Skills for 9yrs+ program.
After completing the Foundation Skills classes (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.
Club sessions are student-focused and may cover facial features, hair, body postures, accessories, etc for human and animal characters – depending on students interests and skill levels.
A greater emphasis on body movement using perspective to draw characters in action.
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.
After completing our Foundation Skills in Realistic Drawing as part of our School Holiday program, students can continue to build on these skills by attending our project-based 3 hour sessions. Dates to be advised.
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