• All Levels
  • Interdisciplinary

This ONLINE course will be appropriate for anyone wishing to improve their image design skills. We will work on developing our creative vocabulary and view a variety of references for study and inspiration. Throughout this course, we will work our way through a series of exercises that will focus on students executing more complex image creation by practicing and combining different composition strategies.  Artists with an interest in all media are welcome! Areas of focus will include, shape language and proportions, tonal composition, and colour planning.   

This is a level 2 course. A prior understanding of composition is recommended such as TSA's ONLINE:  Composition: Learning to See Creatively.   Composition: Learning to See Creatively


This course will be offered via ZOOM. Prior to the course session, you will receive an invitation for the session(s) via email. You'll need a laptop, desktop or tablet, internet connection with good bandwidth and headset (either wired or wireless). We recommend that you set up a free ZOOM account and be familiar with ZOOM prior to the class beginning.  Here is a link to help you get started. https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/categories/200101697

Notes: Instructor Lindsey Rosenow is a Toronto-based Artist who has been teaching in Toronto for the last 6 years.  She has taught film making, stop motion and classical animation, script writing, camera editing and video game design at the Toronto International Film Festival. And at the Animation Portfolio Workshop, topics included Gesture Drawing, Structure Drawing, Anatomy, Character Design, Perspective, Layout Design, Composition, Animation for beginners, and Storyboarding. Currently, Lindsey is working freelance with a focus on design jobs for animation as a layout artist and prop designer. Lindsey is a big believer in progressive learning - she values transferable skills over singular assignments, making sure that all lessons work cohesively with one another.
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What you will learn

  • How to problem-solve your way through a concept starting from an initial idea, through the sketchbook phase, to a final image
  • Sketchbooking exercises
  • How tone effects our colour decisions
  • How colour and lighting can effect the mood of an image

Materials to Bring

  • A sketchbook of your choosing
  • Three duel sided, greyscale markers, preferably cool grey. Approximately 30%, 50%, and 70% grey. A chisel tip on one side, and a brush tip on the other side. Suggested brands include Copic, Tombow, Prismacolour or Winsor and Newton Pro Markers
  • A sharpie extra fine pen, or another strong black pen of your choosing. Suggested brands include Micron, Copic, or Staedtler
  • Two to three black pencil crayons

We will also review some suggested sketchbook materials during week 1. This course can be molded to fit any student's interests and therefore, you can pick and choose any combination of materials that you feel suit you best. The above materials are just basic suggestions.