DC Scholastic Sketchers (1 Single Lesson-You Choose)

LET'S DRAW! Choose any one lesson of Scholastic Sketchers Draw Club (LIVE, online...see list below) for your school, microschool, institution or after-school program ($50- no matter how many attendees you have...that's less than the price of just four people signing up individually). If you want to offer a focused drawing class to teach and improve basic drawing abilities, this is the best deal you'll find anywhere! Come join us! Wherever you are, we want to draw with you!

Scholastic Sketchers Draw Club is the school version of our flagship Super Sketchers Draw Club class. It runs 40 minutes with exercise extensions if you want to lengthen the lesson or revisit it another time. Draw Club sessions are grouped in four-week themes (see Monthly Themes below). 

Choose Your Week and Post it in the Comments Section at Checkout

September: Creating Compelling Characters

Week 1- Characters

Week 2-Expressions

Week 3-Poses+Action

Week 4-Studio Project

October: Comic Strip Connoisseur

Week 5- Strips

Week 6- Proportion

Week 7-Panels

Week 8- Studio Project

November: Graphic Novel Grindset

Week 9- Story Layout

Week 10- Perspective

Week 11- Tackling Text

Week 12- Studio Project

December: Festive Fun & Fame

Week 13-  Greeting Card

Week 14- 3-Point  Perspective Posters

Week 15- Caricatures, 

Week 16- Studio Project

January: Conquering Classical Illustration

Week 17- Shade/Shadow

Week 18- ColorTheory

Week 19- Wildlife

Week 20- Studio Project

February: Comic Book Commandos

Week 21- Superheroes

Week 22- Action

Week 23- Faces

Week 24- Studio Project

March: Manga Chibi Overdrive

Week 25- Faces,

Week 26- Bodies and Poses

Week 27- Chibi

Week 28- Studio Project

April: Goated Gamer Graphics

Week 29- Board Games

Week 30- Board Games

Week 31- Video Games

Week 32- Studio Project

May: Cartoon Cash-In

Week 33- T-Shirts Design

Week 34- Logos

Week 35- Children's Book Art

Week 36- Studio Project

June: Making Magic for Movies Camp

Week 37- Monsters

Week 38- Storyboarding

Week 39- Concept Art

Week 40- Studio Project

July: Architecture and Design Camp

Week 41- Architecture

Week 42- Automobile Design

Week 43- Flying Machines

Week 44- Studio Project

August: Fashion With Flair Camp

Week 45- Traditional Fashion

Week 46- Modern Fashion

Week 47- Street Fashion

Week 48- Studio Project

 

If your class is unable to attend the live session (or if you prefer the flexibility of video), there will be a recorded version of every lesson available after the live session is complete. The videos will stay on our YouTube channel for two weeks.

CLASS STRUCTURE:

-4 minutes lesson focus, history and examples

-34 minutes step by step drawing (10 minutes on, 2 minute break repeated)

-2 minute wrap-up

-20 minute extension with self-application or further development of the days lesson.

Suggested ages: 8-15 with beginning to intermediate drawing skills.

HOW DRAW CLUB WORKS: Three sessions (per 4-week-theme) are live, step-by-step tutorials. And because students want time to develop their own drawings, the fourth session per month is recorded and can be viewed at their convenience. The recorded session is called Studio Project week. The Studio Project video is posted on YouTube, and outlines an exercise designed to give students freedom to explore, on their own, the techniques they've learned during the previous three weeks. There is also a step-by-step option within the Studio Project video if you want or need extra help applying your skills. The Studio Project video can be played like the live feed for your students.

Hosts (your institution/facilitator) will be sent a Zoom invite (new each week) to join the live Draw Club session and JPG files to print for students to follow along on the lesson. Please provide an email address you check regularly during checkout so you are sure to receive both the invite and the JPG files

 

For these sessions, your institution will need:

•A facilitator.

-A reliable internet connection.

•A monitor that can display the live Zoom session and the Studio Project video.

•To print the JPG template(s) you receive for the session.

•A pencil and an eraser (and a ruler occasionally).

•A pen (or preferably two) with indelible ink. One fine tip, and if possible, a second with a bit larger tip to fill in more area (which makes things quicker).

•Colored pencils, markers, or crayons...preferably with 2-3 of each color (ie. light green, medium green, dark green). Simple, low cost colors will work fine.

•A mirror (used occasionally). A photo/selfie can work for this.

 

Scholastic Sketchers is great for microschools, after-school programs, arts councils, churches, home school collectives, and libraries.

 

Classes are weekly during the school year:

Thursdays at  Noon-12:40PM or 4-4:40PM EST

Fridays at 11:00AM-11:40AM or 1::00-1:40PM or 4:00-4:40PM EST

 

Classes during the summer months run as once-monthly four-day camps.

Summer Dates: June 22-25, July 13-16, August 10-13

Summer Class Time: 11:00-11:55AM  EST (M-Th)

 

There will be other groups in attendance, and feeds will be muted during the step-by-step portion of the class, with small breaks for questions. Chat will be moderated if you have any questions while muted.

 

Photo Waiver: Draw Club takes and receives weekly pictures of student artwork and shares some of them in the email update and on social media for people to see what awesome artists we have. There are no names associated with the pictures. Unless you notify us otherwise (at Toons@GooGenius.com) not to share any photos of your student/art, your purchase of Draw Club classes will be deemed as agreement to let us use screenshots and any other images of your student/artwork, royalty free, in various GooGenius/Draw Club community-building and publicity applications.