Skip to content
For families in the UAE

Digital Art Classes for Kids & Teens in the UAE

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.

GSTAEDLive onlineAges 5-145.0 rating
Free trial

Book a free class in the UAE

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 the UAE.

Message us on WhatsAppCall +91 97431 17086

We usually reply within the hour

Why families choose us

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 at the trial.

Beyond Dubai, we teach families across Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman and Ras Al Khaimah. The pattern is consistent across the Emirates: parents on long working hours, children in Indian curriculum schools, and a wish for something rooted that does not depend on a weekend drive.

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

Digital colour and light, and why it differs from paint

Works with any tablet and any free or paid app

Sensible guidance on screen time and posture

Timings

Batch timings for the UAE

Live classes on GST, scheduled around your week rather than ours.

The UAE weekend, Friday and Saturday, is what we schedule around, along with weekday 5:00 to 7:30 PM GST batches. The one-and-a-half-hour offset from India means almost any slot works for both ends.

Abu Dhabi and Sharjah follow Dubai in numbers. Because the timezone is so convenient, UAE families are also the most likely to take two classes a week.

What your child gains

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

A small portfolio of digital pieces

The curriculum

Digital Art Classes for Kids & Teens, module by module

What a year of digital art classes for kids & teens actually covers, in the order we teach it.

01

Set Up and Sketch

Canvas, resolution, brushes and a clean rough sketch. Getting a workflow before getting clever.

02

Layers, Properly

Line, colour, shadow and highlight kept separate, and why non-destructive working saves an hour a piece.

03

Line Art

Stabilisation, taper and weight. Making a digital line that looks decided rather than corrected.

04

Colour and Light

Flats, clipping masks, shadow and glow, and how digital light behaves unlike paint.

05

Character Design

Silhouette, expression and consistency, so the same character survives five drawings.

06

A Finished Piece

Rough to final illustration, exported and presented at the showcase.

Prefer a room, paper and paint on a table?

Arts & Painting is the one class we teach in person as well as online. Offline batches run at our arts studio in Jayanagar, Bengaluru, with the same mentors and the same curriculum as the online batches. Families outside Bengaluru take the online batches, which cover the identical curriculum.

Getting started is easy

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 trial to what they can already do.

2. Free trial with 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 GST. The UAE weekend, Friday and Saturday, is what we schedule around, along with weekday 5:00 to 7:30 PM GST batches.

The Ramayana classes are the highlight of my daughter’s week. She now teaches us the values she learns. As NRI parents in Dubai, this connection to our culture is priceless.
Kavya ReddyDubai, UAEParent of Saanvi, 8
Questions

Digital Art Classes for Kids & Teens in the UAE, FAQs

Any drawing tablet or an iPad with a stylus. Krita and Ibis Paint are free and completely sufficient; Procreate is fine if you already own it. We teach principles that carry across apps rather than one program’s menus.

Book Free Trial