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Sketchbook Skool

Sketchbook Skool (SBS) is an online art school that specializes in courses about drawing and painting in sketchbooks. It's based in New York and Amsterdam and the teachers are from all over the world. Often you have more than one teacher in one course. Most courses (or kourses as they say) take five to six weeks, but there are shorter ones, too.

I got aware of them quite some time ago and registered there not so long ago, but haven't taken a course with them so far. The courses are not really cheap - compared to say Craftsy. Still they have enthusiastic participants who have taken several courses. I have watched videos on their Youtube channel, followed their blog and seen what their students do at Facebook groups and I like their over-all approach of sketching in sketchbooks and being loose while still teaching about techniques that help you improve. One important reason I haven't taken part so far is that often watercolour is used, which I don't use, and with prices being quite high I don't want to lose a week's worth of course material because they teach something I don't want to use.

Finally, I have enrolled in a klass. It's shorter and cheaper than most of them and you can use whatever tools you prefer. I thought it may be ideal to try SBS out. It's about making greeting cards and taught by Salli Swindell who has designed greeting cards for major greeting card manufacturers. I'm not necessarily planning to design greeting cards later, but I hope to learn a good deal about designing and illustration, about the process that is behind it.

Klass starts tomorrow and I am really curious what it will be like.

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