DC Starting Sketchers (Month 11) July Package (4 Classes-Young Beginner): Startin' Stories Camp

GET THEM STARTED RIGHT!  One week (4 sessions) of Starting Sketchers Draw Club Cartoon Strip Camp (LIVE, online) for your young beginning illustrator(s) ($28.00/camp for the whole household). This camp focuses on graphic storytelling. This class also reinforces social skills with GooTopia®™ characters as our guides. This is a slow-paced class, but parental support may be necessary depending on your child's ability. This is the best deal you'll find anywhere for a drawing summer camp. Come join us! Wherever you are, we want to draw with you!

Check out our Group Pricing. Draw Club can be even more awesome when you draw in groups...so if you have four or more students (with parent) who want to meet up for class, the Group option at checkout is an unbelievable bargain.

July: Startin' Stories Camp

- The Intro with Danika Discerning

- The Rise in Action with Bhaskar Benevolent

- The Climactic Moment with Olympia On-Time

- Studio Project- The Resolution with Deng Deferential

 

Classes during the summer months run as once-monthly four-day camps.
Summer Dates: July 13-16
Summer Class Time: 12:30-12:55PM  EST (M-Th)

 

Starting Sketchers Draw Club sessions are grouped in simple four-week themes...expressions, character drawing, complimentary colors, shading, animals, objects, buildings, etc. Classes run for 25 minutes and cover a new basic drawing subject every week. 

If you/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:

-3 minutes lesson focus and story excerpt reading.

-22 minutes step-by-step drawing (10 minutes on, 2 minute break)

Suggested ages: 6-8 with no drawing skills needed coming in to class. Students will draw and color on a simple template. Parents/caretakers may need to help their little one (on the same sheet or with their own sheet). Drawing and coloring are a lot of fun to do together and improve your young illustrator's problem solving abilities, introduce them formally to social skills, and prepare them for drawing success later in life.

HOW DRAW CLUB WORKS: Each month is four sessions. 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 finish off the month's theme. This gives students and parents/caregivers freedom to explore, on their own, the techniques they've learned during the previous three weeks and develop their own drawing. There is also a step-by-step option within the Studio Project video if you want or need extra guidance with the exercise. Our goal is to encourage drawing, social skills, imagination, creativity and motor skills development. The Studio Project video can be played like the live feed for your students.

Attendees are sent a Zoom invite (new each week) to join the live Draw Club session and JPG files to print 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, you will need:

•An adult (to connect to the session and to support the student if needed)
-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 black felt tip pen (medium or fine tip)
•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.

Starting Sketchers is great for young children who are are totally new to drawing and for parents/caregivers who want to spark an interest in art in their child.

 

There will be other students and 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.

 

September: Let's Face It

Week 1- Drawing Cartoon Human Faces with Aisha Attentive

Week 2-Drawing Cartoon Animal Faces with Dieter Determined

Week 3-Drawing Other Cartoon Faces with Paka Perseverance

Week 4-Studio Project- Let's Make Faces with Rolando Responsible

October: Express Yourself

Week 5- Drawing Joy with Esmeralda Enthusiastic

Week 6- Drawing Surprise with Saša Self-Control

Week 7- Drawing Tiredness with Ingaborg Initiative

Week 8- Studio Project- Expressions of Care with Gino Generous

November: Building Bodies

Week 9- Drawing Cartoon Human Bodies with Carolina Compassionate

Week 10- Drawing Animal Bodies with Grigoriy Grateful

Week 11- Drawing Other Bodies with Harrison Humble

Week 12- Studio Project- Body Building with Vladimir Virtuous

December: Move It Move It

Week 13-  Drawing a Dance Pose with Ava Available

Week 14- Drawing Walking/Talking with Horace Hospitable

Week 15- Drawing a Sideways Dive with Chouko Creative

Week 16- Studio Project- Drawing an Elephant Jumping with Tobias Tolerant

January: Classic Crush

Week 17- Shading Shapes with Dilara Diligent

Week 18- Shadow of Chess with Fergus Forgiving

Week 19- Shading Odd Shapes with Francesca Faithful

Week 20- Studio Project-Shading Techniques with Ping Patient

February: Color Me Cool

Week 21- Color Theory with Fatima Flexible

Week 22- Complimentary Colors with Jasper Joyful

Week 23- Warm and Cool Colors with Sudiata Sensitive

Week 24- Studio Project- The Color Castle with Norbert Noble

March: Animal Instinct

Week 25- Mouse with Thelma Thrifty

Week 26- Cheetah with Carlos Courageous

Week 27- Chameleon with Ophelia Obedient

Week 28- Studio Project- Biggest Dog in GooTopia With Tod Truthful

April: Sky and Sea

Week 29- Sea Turtle with Petra Persuasive

Week 30- Ducks with Scottie Sincere

Week 31- Tropical Fish with Caliope Cautious

Week 32- Studio Project-Parrots with Abram Alert

May: My Home Town

Week 33- Indoor One Point Perspective with Juniper Just

Week 34- Indoor Two Point Perspective with Thor Thorough

Week 35- Outdoor One Point Perspective Safety Smarts with Setara Secure

Week 36- Studio Project- Outdoor Two Point Perspective with Rasmus Resourceful

June: Cartoon Strip Camp

Week 37- Framing with Eva Marie Empathetic

Week 38- The Single Panel Cartoon with Carmine Content

Week 39- Full Cartoon Strip with Dembe Discreet

Week 40- Studio Project- Your Strip with Lord Linus Loyal

July: Startin' Stories Camp

Week 41- The Intro with Danika Discerning

Week 42- The Rise in Action with Bhaskar Benevolent

Week 43- The Climactic Moment with Olympia On-Time

Week 44- Studio Project- The Resolution with Deng Deferential

August: Doodle Camp

Week 45- Repetition and Layers with Genevieve Gentle

Week 46- The Flow of Your Drawing with Wilbur Wise

Week 47- Abstract Doodles with Dominique Decisive

Week 48- Studio Project- Word Doodles with DeQuan Dependable

 

Photo Waiver: Draw Club takes 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 in Draw Club. 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.