Digital Art Classes for Kids & Teens in Australia
Digital art, on top of real drawing skill
A tablet does not make a child a better artist, it makes a mediocre drawing faster to produce. So this class runs the fundamentals and the software together: construction and value on one side, layers, brushes and colour management on the other. What children want to make — characters, scenes, their own comics — is the vehicle for both.
Enquire about classes in Australia
Add the student’s name and your number, then continue on WhatsApp or call us. We’ll come back with the next available slot for Australia.
We usually reply within the hour
Digital art, on top of real drawing skill
We will not spend the hour teaching menus. Software changes and the skill underneath does not, so roughly half of every class is drawing and half is doing it digitally. Children arriving with no traditional drawing experience are usually asked to take the pencil class alongside, and we will say so when you enquire.
Australia runs four and a half to five and a half hours ahead of India, which turns out to be the friendliest gap of all. An early evening class in Sydney or Melbourne is the middle of the Indian afternoon, so weekday batches are genuinely easy rather than a compromise.
Drawing fundamentals and software taught together, not separately
Layers, masks and non-destructive working from the start
Character design and expression, what most children come for
Sensible guidance on screen time and posture
Batch timings for Australia
Live classes on AEST, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Weekday 5:00 to 7:30 PM AEST is our main Australian window and it works for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra alike. Perth families are three hours behind the eastern states and take an earlier slot. Daylight saving shifts are handled by us, not by you.
Melbourne and Sydney account for most of our Australian families, with Brisbane and Perth growing. Several families found us through the Bharatanatyam community that Nrithyakshetra, our parent academy, is part of.
What your child walks away able to do
A finished, coloured digital illustration from a blank canvas
Confident layer and brush workflow
Original characters with consistent design
Inside the digital art classes for kids & teens curriculum
A few of the modules a year of digital art classes for kids & teens covers. The full sequence is on the class page.
- 01Set Up and Sketch
- 02Layers, Properly
- 03Line Art
- 04A Finished Piece
Prefer a room, paper and paint on a table?
Arts & Painting runs in person at our arts studio in Jayanagar, Bengaluru, and, like every class of ours, at our HSR Layout centre, 243, 16th Main Road, Sector 3, HSR Layout, Bengaluru 560102. Both use the same mentors and the same curriculum as the online batches. Families outside Bengaluru take the online batches, which cover the identical curriculum.
Three simple steps to begin
1. Tell us about your child
Call or WhatsApp us and say where your child is starting from. For digital art classes for kids & teens that matters — the mentor pitches the first class to what they can already do.
2. Personal guidance from a mentor
A real, live class, not a sales call. The mentor works with your child for the full session and then tells you honestly whether this is the right class of ours for them.
3. Pick a slot that survives the school week
We place your child in a batch built for AEST. Weekday 5:00 to 7:30 PM AEST is our main Australian window and it works for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra alike.
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Digital Art Classes for Kids & Teens in Australia, FAQs
Ideally alongside. A tablet accelerates whatever skill is already there and cannot substitute for it, so about half of every class is drawing fundamentals. Children with no pencil experience are usually advised to take the drawing class in parallel.
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