Online Drawing Classes for Kids in Chicago
Drawing classes that start with learning to look
Children do not draw what is in front of them, they draw what they believe is in front of them — a symbol for an eye, a symbol for a hand. Teaching drawing means interrupting that. We work on looking before technique: measuring by eye, noticing the shape of the gap between two things, and drawing the line that is actually there.
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Drawing classes that start with learning to look
This is the class for a child who wants to get genuinely good, and it is more demanding than a craft hour. There is repetition in it. There are weeks of shading a single sphere. What comes out the other side is a child who can draw anything in front of them, which is a different thing from a child with a folder of nice pictures.
Chicago families come to us with long winters in mind — a live class a child can attend from a warm room, in a season when getting to a weekend cultural class across the metro is genuinely difficult, is a large part of the appeal here.
Observation trained deliberately, the skill everything rests on
Light and shade, from a single sphere up to a full still life
Figures and faces built on construction, not on formulas
Digital sketching on a tablet for the 10-15 group
Batch timings for Chicago
Live classes on CT, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Weekday 6:00 to 7:30 PM Central and Saturday and Sunday mornings Central. Central time makes the Indian-morning mentor slots workable without anybody in the household getting up early.
Naperville, Schaumburg, Aurora, Bolingbrook and the Devon Avenue neighbourhoods are where most of our Chicago families are. Several found us through the Bharatanatyam circuit our parent academy Nrithyakshetra is part of.
What your child walks away able to do
Drawing an unfamiliar object accurately from observation
Convincing light, shade and form
Perspective that holds together in a full scene
Inside the online drawing classes for kids curriculum
A few of the modules a year of online drawing classes for kids covers. The full sequence is on the class page.
- 01Light and Shade
- 02Perspective
- 03Faces and Figures
- 04Digital Sketching (10-15)
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 online drawing classes for kids 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 CT. Weekday 6:00 to 7:30 PM Central and Saturday and Sunday mornings Central.
“Timezone was our biggest worry. Smriti Samskara made it effortless, the Mahabharata class fits perfectly into our London evenings, and the storytelling quality is simply exceptional.”
Online Drawing Classes for Kids in Chicago, FAQs
We teach the construction underneath them, proportion, gesture, perspective, and then children apply it to whatever style they love. Skipping straight to copying an anime face is why so many children plateau at twelve.
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