The Style Class: Work Out Your Illustration Style in a Daily Project

How do you find your illustration style? If you're an illustrator, you've probably asked this question before. Perhaps you’ve wondered if you should narrow down to a single style, or if it’s okay to work in a many. Perhaps you constantly struggle with feeling confident in the styles you have now; or, maybe you’re looking for a more original style that looks less like your influences. If any of these sound familiar, this class is for you!

Tom Froese is an award winning illustrator and top teacher here on Skillshare, where he's helped tens of creative people like you unlock the world of commercial illustration. Over the years, Tom has has had is fair share of doubts and struggles where it comes to developing a consistent, reliable, and authentic illustration style. In this class, Tom shares key insights from this journey and offers some practical and actionable steps that will be sure to help you in yours.

In this class you'll discover:

• How illustration style works and how it might work for you personally
• How to find your style while overcoming anxiety and doubt
• How to use style as a problem solving tool
• How to springboard from your inspiration without worrying about imitating it
• A fully guided, daily illustration project with a focus on developing your style
• A deep dive into how Tom thinks about style during the illustration process

This class is all about understanding the deeper issues around style, how it relates to you and your identity, and how to use style to solve visual problems, reliably and expressively, in your commercial illustration. It’s not about the individual components of style, or how to use specific tools and techniques. It's about empowering you to boldly explore your own potential as an illustrator. 

By the end of this class you will have a series of illustrations, based on a theme, that you work toward over the course of a few weeks. The class project will help you focus on applying one kind of illustration technique to a variety of illustration problems. Along the way, you will become more familiar with what you love and what you are good at — and what you might not love or be great at — and these will become the biggest clues to what drives you creatively, the ingredients of your own unique illustration style.

No matter where you are in your journey, this class aims to be a game changer for how you think about you and your illustration style. Ultimately, style is not something that can be given to you or taught. It's the result  of a process of discovery about who you are, what you love, and what you are excited to master. Tom invites you to begin or continue that journey with him in The Style Class!

VIDEO PRODUCTION BY CASSIAR FILM CO. 

• Trailer
• About This Class
• About Style
• Style Pain Points
• 5 Observations About Style
• The Power of the Daily Project
• The 2 Kinds of Illustrators
• Solving Problems with Style
• Follow Your Inspiration
• Lettering: The Secret Element
• Setting Goals and Aiming for Joy
• Exercise 01: Inspiration Case Study
• Exercise 02: Creative Self-Inventory
• Project | Day 1: Kickoff and Setup
• Project | Day 1: Make a Project Plan
• Project | Days 2-4: Pilot Set (Preliminary Studies)
• Project | Days 2-4: Pilot Set (Sketching Toward Ideas)
• Project | Days 2-4: Pilot Set (Finished Artwork)
• Project | Days 5-26: Filling Out the Set
• Concluding Remarks!
• Go Deeper with a 1-on-1 Session