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Kids Focus on Drawing Furs, Feathers & Scales Overview: Throughout an in-depth exploration of animal anatomy, students further practice and develop their drawing skills in representing proportion and texture. Students will be challenged to work on a larger scale, capturing life size qualities of their animal subjects. Essential Skills: Create a large scale observational drawing. Demonstrate ability to render naturalistic details. Explore texture and rendering realism. Vocabulary + Terms: Anatomy, Scale, Texture, Proportion Featured Artists: Caden Fiddler

Tell us a little about your journey as a young and developing artist.  Although the progression and improvement of art takes a while, when you look back on what you have made before, you realize how much you have progressed.   Which has been your favorite project to work on at One River? My personal favorite project to work on at One River is probably the Over Dramatic cartoon animation, where I animated an over-exaggerated “squishing” motion, and it was a fun project to work on.   Describe One River in 3 words. An Awesome Place. After taking classes here for a couple years, it had just gotten better. New classes and new people pop up every now and then, and it is fun to take new classes, learn new things, and meet new people.   What would you tell people who haven’t dabbled in art? Are there benefits? Art…

Tell us a little bit about you and your background. Hi! I’m Alexej. I’m a concept artist, game dev, and instructor born and raised in the cornfields of the midwest. In 2017 my kernels drifted in the wind to Los Angeles, where I attended OTIS College of Art and Design receiving my BFA in Digital Media. In 2020 the wind picked up, and flew my kernels back to the midwest. I love creative mediums of all different kinds,  you name it and I’ve probably tried it.   What attracted you to work at One River School? One River was really only supposed to be an interim for me, I had just graduated college during the pandemic and needed something to pass the time. One River Evanston is in my hometown, and it also served as a way to get  involved with my community since being away for about five years.…

Digital Art Shuffle™: Kids Still Alive Still Life Overview: Students create an illustrated digital still life featuring cartoon objects with facial features and expressions. Essential Skills: Learn to represent objects in a stylized way. Discover how to create cartoon facial expressions. Explore the art of Still Life Illustration. Vocabulary + Terms: Still Life, Composition, Sighting, Perspective Featured Artists: Lauren Martin and Tess Smith-Roberts