Short Courses are a new offering from Box Hill Art Group in 2025.
Our 2025 Short Courses are:
Cartooning – with Sarah Howell – 5 week course – Saturdays – 1st March – 29th March.
Course Outline:
Week 1 – Faces
- Drawing emotions
- A guide to face proportions
- A guide to basic caricature
Week 2 – Characters with Attitude
- How to build hands
- How to build feet
- A guide to body proportions
- Learn to exaggerate shapes to create interesting character designs
Week 3 – Characters with Attitude
- How to turn stiff figure drawings into characters that have attitude and feeling
- Simple perspective techniques that add to the story of your character
Week 4 – Movement and Sound
- Different ways to show movement
- How to show sound
- How to create thought and speech balloons that add extra expression to your character
Week 5 – Inking and Colouring
- An in depth look at original inked artwork by Sarah Howell
- Time to experiment with different inking tools
- Discussion of how to support and extend your new drawing skills beyond the course.
Please check back for bookings, more information, and more Short Courses as they becomes available, or join our mailing list for regular updates.