Art: digital painting & drawing courses

Visit our Staffordshire design studio to spend the day learning or updating CAD skills by using Photoshop and / or Illustrator. From altering artwork to creating seamless repeat designs we can help you to enhance and manipulate your creative ideas. Suitable for those updating skills learning from scratch or with very specific requirements. Offering you over 35 years of experience in the ever changing design industry. We can help with scanning in artworks and cleaning up images, manipulating them on screen, changing colour and using filters. We can also provide...

Our one to one Illustrator and Photoshop course is tailored to suit you and any skills you want to learn. Visit our Staffordshire design studio to spend the day learning or updating CAD skills by using Photoshop and / or Illustrator. From altering your own artwork to creating designs we can help you to enhance and manipulate your creative ideas. Offering you over 35 years of experience in the ever changing design industry. We will work with you to understand what you want to get out of the day and...

Take part live as it happens with our detailed online course materials and daily zoom sessions at 10:00-12:00 and 14:00-15:30. Taking inspiration from the changing season and focusing on relative tone, this live online sketch workshop looks at depicting autumn fruits, seed pods and decay. We start with relative tone studies in pencil, moving rapidly on to explore how tone relates to texture in pen & ink and its connection with the autumn colour story. A unique drawing course responding to what we find around us in autumn, with brilliant...

This new ecourse is aimed at artists and creatives who are stuck, in a block, want to try something new or are looking for inspiration. The course is suitable for most creatives no matter what their preference or medium. The prompts are more in the style of an art and design course and not just – here’s a photo, what would you do with it. We are exploring themes in relation to art, textiles, printing, ceramics, fashion and so on, whatever your discipline is. So each person can take their...

If you enjoy drawing and creating characters then this one-week course is for you. The week will provide you with an introduction to animation starting with some practical activities like flip books and zoetropes, then moving onto more traditional methods such as hand drawn and digital animation. During the week, you will be using Adobe Animate CC and Wacom Cintiq tablets. You can have little or no previous animation knowledge to attend and still achieve great results. You might be studying art or design at school and want to explore...

This course will provide you with an introduction to digital animation using Adobe Animate CC and Wacom Cintiq tablets. On this course you will: - learn the fundamentals of animation including timing and spacing - create animated ball bounces and walk cycles - study the movement of balloons and other objects - create character turnarounds - build your own short animation that demonstrates a personal approach. You can have little or no previous animation knowledge to attend and still achieve great results. What will you gain? By the end of...

On this course, you’ll learn the basics of the computer programmes needed for effective 2D and 3D design. Programmes taught will include AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Solid Works. It's a course that is very useful for designers and professionals working in 2D and 3D who have had little design software experience. It can also support other studies, if you feel your CAD skills are in need of a boost. To attend this course you must understand basic computer functions and file navigation – this is not a course suitable...

On this course, you’ll learn the basics of the computer programmes needed for effective 2D and 3D design. Programmes taught will include AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Solid Works. It's a course that is very useful for designers and professionals working in 2D and 3D who have had little design software experience. It can also support other studies, if you feel your CAD skills are in need of a boost. To attend this course you must understand basic computer functions and file navigation – this is not a course suitable...

On this course you’ll have the opportunity to engage with the latest concept art techniques and create successful characters and environments for game design. You’ll be creating a world of your own, developing a personal approach to either real-life, fantasy, sci-fi or cartoon concept art. The techniques covered are practised throughout the game design industry but can also be applied to animation, illustration, film and TV production. This course is ideal for those who wish to investigate their role in the game and concept art development process. You’ll start by...

On this practical course you’ll have the opportunity to engage with the latest concept art techniques and create successful characters and environments for game design using Adobe Creative Suite and Wacom tablets. You’ll be creating a world of your own, developing a personal approach to either real-life, fantasy, sci-fi or cartoon concept art. You can have little or no previous knowledge to attend and you can have any drawing ability – you will still achieve great results! This course is ideal for anyone who’d like some fun, hands-on experience turning...