IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES

Meet your next favorite obsession: wild-haired girls brought to life with watercolor, India ink, and mixed-media magic. Art Heroine is a focused character-building course where you'll learn to illustrate expressive figures from start to finish — exploring hair, facial features, and skin tones before painting three complete characters: Marnie the Mermie, Stella with Stripes, and Penny has Powers. Each character comes with her own inspirational story and varies in size and detail, giving you a full range of compositional choices to work from. With exercises, full projects, and a bonus Lessons Learned segment, this course is rich in content and designed to move your work in a genuinely new direction.

UNLOCK A NEW SKILL

With a background in graphic design and fine art, I create illustrations that tell hidden stories. The skill at the heart of Art Heroine is pairing India ink with watercolor to build characters with an expressive, untamed quality you simply can't get with watercolor alone. You'll learn how ink behaves differently than paint — how to use it for bold, gestural hair with a life of its own, how to layer it over pencilwork, and how to let it do something wild and then rein it back in. This isn't just adding a new supply to your kit. It's learning to think in a different medium and let that shift change the energy of everything you paint.

BUILD YOUR CRAFT

These characters aren't built in a single sitting — they're developed layer by layer, decision by decision. We begin with exercises that isolate the skills you'll need: inky up-do's to loosen your hand, imaginative skin tones to expand your palette, facial features to deepen your expressive range. Then we bring it all together in three full character paintings, each one more complex than the last. Along the way there's even a bonus segment on what to do when a piece goes sideways — because learning from the ones that didn't work is just as important as celebrating the ones that did. This layered approach builds real confidence and real skill, creating a depth that shorter classes simply can't match.

WHAT YOU GET

This course includes downloadable handout packets — your tangible companion to everything covered in the videos. It includes supply notes, character reference pages, inspirational stories for each girl, step-by-step process photos, and pages for recording your own lessons learned. The videos total several hours of instruction across exercises, full character projects, and a bonus segment, and every bit of it is yours to keep and return to whenever you want.

LEARN OFFLINE, ANYTIME

Every course includes a dedicated Start Here lesson — your personal download hub where all your handout packets and videos are organized and waiting for you. Save everything to your device and keep learning wherever you are, whenever you want.