IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES

Imagine a miniature figure — small enough to fit in the palm of your hand — standing against a gritty, textured urban wall beneath an enormous pair of wings. That's the world of Mighty Tiny. This course teaches you to illustrate dramatic miniature murals using pencilwork, watercolor, colored pencils, and a touch of mixed media. Before diving into full compositions, you'll build your skills through a series of focused practice exercises: creating textured urban-inspired watercolor backgrounds, designing bitty boy and girl characters with expressive proportion, and crafting wings ranging from simple and elegant to richly complex. Then comes the reward — three start-to-finish illustration projects featuring Hawk Feathers, Swan Wings, and Starling Wings, each one taking the contrast between tiny figure and magnificent wingspan further than the last.

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 Mighty Tiny is building tension through scale — the art of placing something small and tender against something vast and powerful, and making that contrast feel intentional rather than accidental. You'll learn to paint gritty, layered urban backgrounds that feel like real concrete and weathered walls, then place a tiny figure and enormous avian wings against them in a way that turns a simple composition into something that stops people in their tracks. Watercolor, colored pencil, and gouache each play a specific role in achieving this gritty-meets-rainbow quality, and you'll learn exactly when and how to use each one.

BUILD YOUR CRAFT

Mighty Tiny is built on the belief that confidence comes from breaking things down before putting them back together. The practice exercises aren't optional extras — they're the foundation. Urban backgrounds, bitty beings, feathers, and wing anatomy are each explored in isolation first, so that when you arrive at the full illustration projects, you already know how each element behaves. The three projects then build on each other in scope and complexity, moving from Hawk Feathers to Swan Wings to the fully realized Starling Wings composition. Each project is broken into four video segments — line art, initial wash, watercolor layers, and detail work — mirroring the patient, layer-by-layer process of a working illustrator, creating a depth that shorter classes simply can't match.

WHAT YOU GET

This course includes a single comprehensive downloadable workbook — a substantial PDF companion that goes well beyond a handout. Inside you'll find supply references, a full color palette guide, urban background practice references and worksheets, bitty beings proportion notes, feather and wing anatomy exercises, DIY challenge pages, and four step-by-step reference sheets for each illustration project (line art, initial wash, watercolor layers, and detail work). The workbook closes with a collection of sample illustrations created during course development — all yours to keep as ongoing reference and inspiration long after the videos end.

LEARN OFFLINE, ANYTIME

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