DC Social Sketchers (Month 10) June Workshop (4 Classes- Ages 50+: Children's Book Challenge

SOCIAL PEOPLE DRAW TOGETHER! One week (4 Session Workshop) of Social Sketchers Draw Club (LIVE, online...see list below) to dust off your drawing muscles ($12.00/session- for your household). If you want a relaxed drawing class that will help you understand and exercise specific drawing techniques that you can use in your everyday life, this is the best deal you'll find anywhere! Come join us! Wherever you are, we want to draw with you!

Do you have friends or a living community that might like to draw with each other? With four or more adults who want to meet up for class, the Group option at checkout is an unbelievable bargain.

June: Children's Book Challenge Workshop
Week 37- Layouts With Words
Week 38- Minimalist vs Masterpiece
Week 39- Captivate With Color
Week 40- Fabulous Finish

Summer Dates: June 22-25
Summer Class Time: 6:00-6:55PM  EST (M-Th)

Social Sketchers is for adults who have a little life experience. No hard age line, but we suggest 50(ish)+. It runs 55 minutes and incorporates basic drawing skills into applications you'll use in everyday life (making funny cartoons, connecting with kids/grandkids, vision casting for life and work, communicating your feelings, graphic journaling and much more). Draw Club sessions are grouped in four-week themes (see Monthly Themes below).

If you are unable to attend the live session any given week (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. During Studio Project week, you can use the guide video just like the live feed, so if you're in a group, you can still meet as a group and draw together.

CLASS STRUCTURE:
-4 minutes lesson focus, history and examples
-48 minutes step by step drawing (10 minutes on, 2 minute break repeated)
-4 minute evaluation

Suggested ages: 50+ with beginning to experienced drawing skills.

HOW SOCIAL SKETCHERS DRAW CLUB WORKS: Three sessions (per 4-week-theme) are live, step-by-step tutorials. The fourth session per month is recorded and can be viewed at your convenience. The recorded session is called Studio Project week. The Studio Project video is posted on YouTube, and outlines an exercise designed to give you freedom to explore, on your own, the techniques/styles we've been working on 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.

You will be sent a Zoom invite (new each week) to join the live Draw Club session and a JPG file(s) to print that will help you follow along on the lesson. Please provide an email address you check regularly during check out so you are sure to receive both the invite and the JPG files
 
For these sessions, you will need:
-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 simple set of watercolor paints (only in August).
•A mirror (only in December). A photo/selfie can work for this.

Social Sketchers is great for living/retirement communities, church groups, arts councils, art therapy programs, and for any individual who always wanted to learn to draw, or who wants to maintain mental/motor dexterity in a fun way.
 
Classes are weekly during the school year:
Thursdays at  6:00-6:55PM EST
Fridays at 10:00-10:55AM
 
Classes during the summer months run as once-monthly four-day workshops.
Summer Dates: June 22-25, July 13-16, August 10-13
Summer Class Time: 6:00-6:55PM  EST (M-Th)
 
There will be others 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. 
 
Monthly Themes:
•Characters With Charisma (Characters, Expressions, Poses, Action)
•The Sunday Cartoonist (Strips, Proportion, Panel Cartoons, Layout)
•Superlative Storytelling (Story Layout, Perspective, Tackling Text, Flow)
•Life Of The Party (Portraits, Caricatures, Abstract Ink, Graphic Recording)
•The Body Classic (Female Form, Male Form, Posed Couple, Posing Ourselves)
•Valentine Vibes (Love Letters, Diary, Doodle Details, Vision Boarding)
•Where The Wild Things Are (Fur, Feathers, Flesh, Fins)
•Ross Like A Boss (Tropical, Mountain Lake, Farm And Field, Castle) Landscapes
•Cash Cow Cartoons (T-Shirts, Logos/Mascots, Greeting Cards, Prints And Brand)
•Children's Book Challenge Workshop (Layout With Words, Art Style, Color, Finish)
•Designing Distinct Domiciles Workshop (English Cottage, Cabin, Modern, City Flat)
•Wet And Wild Watercolor Workshop (Tulip, Lone Tree, Fishing Town, Abstract)
 
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.