*The one where you are continuously surprised, challenged, and expanded. Like life, you’ll never know what you’re going to get.

Open level / advanced. All welcome.

LIVE ONLINE CLASSES

Fashion illustration courses rarely go past beginner level, and almost never into advanced / open levels. As such illustrators are left to find inspiration and improvement strategies within themselves, which is not always possible. To continue growing it’s essential to work beyond your known limits and comfortable zones, but how do you know what you don’t know if you don’t know it?

The Chocolate Box: Creative Fashion Illustration course is designed to provide you with new weekly challenges to push your skills past current levels and open new creative pathways and ideas. New media, techniques or combinations, new viewpoints, creating new styles of images, mastering advanced poses, achieving more professional outcomes. While it is aimed at those with drawing experience, you are welcome to join at any level. As with my face-to-face classes, my online classes are kept small, so you get all the personal attention you need: class size is capped at 10 people. (2 less than in face-to-face classes)

Live online classes: These 3hr-sessions are “live” on Zoom, and operate as a virtual classroom, with informative instruction, perfect-view “bird’s eye” demonstrations, and real-time feedback and corrections on work throughout the class. This method offers a surprising intimacy which can be advantageous to the face-to-face experience. Students have access to re-watch all demonstrations and class recordings for one month after the course finishes and will receive by email any relevant class notes, drawing references, and optional homework suggestions.

Classes run for 3 hours on a Tuesday evening from 6.30pm – 9.30pm.

When: Tuesdays 6.30pm – 9.30pm New dates to be announced soon - email me to be notified.

Where: Anywhere

Price: $350 inc. gst Includes a full set of notes emailed to you along with picture references for the course and extra optional between-class activities.

What you will learn:

o Creative fashion illustration skills, past the boundaries of regular courses.

o Stretch and broaden your existing skills through unexpected challenges, ideas you may not have thought of.

o Expanding your creativity through challenging creative exercises.

o Advanced techniques, how to draw advanced poses and images through working with a variety of themes, tasks, and media.

o Ways of seeing.

o How to move through creative barriers and get into the zone.

o How to loosen up.

o How to break habits and create new ones.

o How to maintain your motivation.

What will you get?

o Any relevant reference notes, including all reference pictures to be used in the classes, AND extra images to use for (optional) homework tasks – yes, I encourage homework!

o Personal one-on-one help and feedback during each class.

o Access to re-watch the class demonstrations as often as you like for one month after the course finishes.

o Enjoyment and relaxation – three hours of escape each week into the creative realm.

o Solid art skills which you can take forward into any form of art practice.

o Inspiration, and an introduction to the world’s best past and current fashion illustrators.

o Homework tasks and ideas for in-between classes.

What do you need to do the course?

*Please always keep in mind you can do the course with very little – there are always work-arounds and cheaper versions of things and I can help you sort this out, just let me know.

o A computer or tablet, with internet access.

o A phone or digital camera to photograph your work in progress to upload or email

Materials: All materials are optional – there are always work-arounds.

This list will be confirmed closer to start date.

o HB, 2B pencil (Staedtler)

o Erasers – hard rubber, and kneadable

o Sharpener (Staedtler classic 3 in 1)

o Coloured pencils (Faber-Castell classic colour set of 24)

o Watercolour paints – “disc” style, palette, or tubes.

o Gouache paints (optional).

o Paintbrushes – “round” style, sizes 2, 6, 8. Synthetic or blend. Flat shape size 3/4

o Paint palette – any kind.

o Paper towel – any kind.

o Water jars (2).

o Black Indian ink – I suggest Winsor & Newton small bottle.

o 1 x tube white gouache paint - optional.

o A3 Como sketch Pad (Artec brand)

o A3 cold pressed (medium) watercolour paper 185gsm or 300gsm

o Other materials as indicated during the course. Optional.

Terms & Conditions apply - PLEASE NOTE that booking a spot in this course is confirmation of your understanding and acceptance. Read them here.