Develop Your Art Style

If your drawings feel stiff, overworked, or technically “right” but still not quite you, this course is a chance to reset.

I've made this for artists who want to move beyond their academic habits. Stuff like tight construction lines, hesitant strokes, and copy-paste rendering so you can start creating work that feels more confident and personal. Instead of trying to mimic someone else’s style, you’ll learn a core idea that changes everything: style is how you simplify.

Through mindset shifts and hands-on exercises, you’ll get comfortable making clear choices around shape, value, and silhouette which will make your work start to look more intentional and feel like it actually came from you.

This course is a style bootcamp, taking you through a series of increasingly complex exercises that you can follow through to develop your style. There are no graded assignments or instructor critiques, just structured practice and honest self-critique. You’ll learn how your tools affect your line quality (yes, even something like a smudge stick), and look inside some of my sketchbooks to see how small, consistent decisions build into a distinct voice over time.

We’ll dig into breaking the rules with purpose. You’ll learn my “30% Truth Rule” to dial realism up or down without muddying your message, and see how the media you use to make art can affect your style.

I’ll teach you my method for gesture drawing, and how I’ve passed up structural drawing in favor of a contour approach that’s helped my poses and figures feel free and lively. We’ll practice other gesture techniques that will get your brain thinking beyond the standard approach and you’ll see my method for tackling a finished illustration. Draw along with every exercise and you’ll find yourself feeling more comfortable on the page and expressing your style in more natural ways.

By the time you finish, you’ll know what to leave out, what to push, and how to draw with purpose instead of second-guessing every line. If you’re ready to stop overthinking and start designing, this is a great place to start.

Art from my sketchbook