Courses + Workshops
Be inspired! Engage with other youths and practicing professional artists in week nights and weekend courses.
Our workshops are open to students ages 15-18, or who are currently enrolled in Grades 9-12.
Character Illustration
Bring stories to life by creating compelling characters! Explore how narratives and personality traits inform character design and development.
Communication Design for Teens
Develop a basic knowledge of communication design, experimenting with, and exploring fundamental design concepts.
Expanded Painting for Teens
Exploring a range of media, techniques and scale, you will learn an expanded vocabulary of painting and refined skill set through experimentation.
Graphic Novel Intensive
Learn the production fundamentals of dynamic graphic novels, including storyboarding, character development, and narrative dialogue.
Intermediate Graphic Novel
Further develop your visual narrative skills by exploring narrative structures, passage of time, flow, perspective, and composition.
Intro to Surface Design
Surface design has many applications including textiles, home décor and editorial projects. Explore creative ideation strategies, composition and colour theory, and pattern development.
Life Drawing for Teens
Develop your observational skills, explore a range of media and methods, and learn how to draw the human figure by working with a live model.
Perspective Drawing for Teens
Learn to represent convincing volume, depth and space with this fundamental drawing technique.
Portfolio Workshop for Teens
Learn how to produce digital and physical portfolios. This workshop is aligned with ECU’s Admissions Guidelines and will help students engage with the application process.
Questions?
Find answers to the most frequently asked questions on our Registration Policies page.