IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES

Art Troop No. 5 | Series 3 brings five more irresistible subjects and five more skills that will genuinely change how you see and make your work. You'll paint a bed of sloths, an eclipse of moths, a rumpus of robots, a string of ponies, and an aurora of polar bears — each one a complete illustration project built around a technique you'll use forever. Along the way you'll learn to draw from a bird's-eye view, preserve the white of the paper through negative space painting, build reusable templates, infuse everyday objects into your compositions, and discover why neutrals are the secret weapon your limited palette has been missing. Five subjects — one of them not even an animal — and all of them more interesting than they first appear.

UNLOCK A NEW SKILL

With a background in graphic design and fine art, I create illustrations that tell hidden stories. What makes this series its own is the way each subject asks something genuinely different of you. The sloths introduce a bird's-eye view perspective — a deceptively simple shift in vantage point that completely changes how you construct a figure. The moths go tactile, incorporating fine-grain sandpaper and collage to build surface texture that watercolor alone can't achieve. The robots are an exercise in painting with neutrals — graphite, gray, and muted tone doing the heavy lifting while punchy accents make everything pop. The ponies bring in cut paper and Mod-Podge as compositional tools, turning your illustration into a mixed-media piece with real dimension. And the polar bears teach you to preserve luminous whites through deliberate negative-space painting, building layer by layer while the paper itself does the brightest work. These are the skills that quietly make everything else better.

BUILD YOUR CRAFT

There's a reason sloths and robots end up in the same course — this series is designed to push you sideways, into subjects and viewpoints you wouldn't naturally choose, because that's exactly where growth hides. Each project follows the Study, Prepare, Practice, and Imagine framework, slowing you down before you ever pick up a brush and giving you a repeatable process you can return to with any subject. The techniques here layer onto everything from Series 1 and 2 — but they stand completely on their own if this is where you're starting. By the time you finish all five, you'll have a broader technical vocabulary and a much more flexible creative instinct, creating a depth that shorter classes simply can't match.

WHAT YOU GET

When you enroll, you'll receive a welcome packet with everything you need to get oriented — supplies, course overview, and downloadable handouts ready before the first video. Each of the five projects comes with its own PDF handout packet and a multi-part video lesson walking you through the complete illustration from start to finish. The packets include palette references, technique exercises, notes pages, and the project-specific tips that make each subject make sense. Everything is downloadable and yours to keep.

LEARN OFFLINE, ANYTIME

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