Kid's Digital Illustration
(7 to 10 Year-Old)
Kids Digital Illustration is a class designed to introduce younger students to the new medium of digital illustration, painting, and character design. By the end of the term, students will have used everything they have learned to complete a full character concept and will have learned to draw in a digital environment.
Fall Semester: August 21- October 28, 2023
Kids Digital Illustration 1
Digital Illustration-Procreate 1
Procreate 1 is a class designed to introduce younger students to the new medium of digital illustration, painting, and character design. By the end of the term, students will have used everything they have learned to complete a full character concept and will have learned to draw in a digital environment.
Software: Procreate
Hardware: Apple iPad
Kids Digital Illustration 2
Digital Illustration-Procreate 2
Prereq: Kids Digital Illustration 1 (Procreate 1)
Procreate 2 is a continuation of Procreate 1 where younger students will learn how to create a scene, design a character for a scene, develop scene layouts, and position characters within a scene. Students will draw from both references and imagination to design backgrounds, character designs, and rendering concepts into finished products. By the end of the term, students will have used everything they have learned to complete a scene that tells a functional story as well as multiple step-by-step concept thumbnails.
Software: Procreate
Hardware: Apple iPad
Kids Digital Illustration 3
Digital Illustration-Procreate 3
Prereq: Kids Digital Illustration 2 (Procreate 2)
Procreate 3 is a continuation of Procreate 1 & 2, where younger students will learn how to create comics using character & scene design from previous classes. Students will start with 4-panel comics and move on to longer comics, several pages in length. By the end of the term, students will have a completed comic that tells a functional story and will have learned how to use paneling, transitions, and dialogue to lead the reader through their comics.
Software: Procreate
Hardware: Apple iPad
