Our Instructors
Danny Gregory
Arizona
Danny is an author and co-founder of Sketchbook Skool. He taught himself to draw in his mid-thirties, after a tragic accident changed his life. Drawing brought him peace and joy and a new perspective on life. His bestselling books have inspired tens of thousands of new artists around the world to join him in a new creative habit. He lives in AZ.
To see more of Danny’s work and ideas, check out his site: dannygregory.com
Courses
- Art Bootcamp
- Be an iPad Artist
- Dip into Dip Pens
- How to Draw Without Talent
- People Drawing People
- Seeing
- The Creative License
- Watercolor Rules
- Your Creative Coach
- Your Illustrated Life
Andrea Joseph
Manchester, UK
Andrea Joseph is a self-taught artist living in the Peak District, UK. She began drawing daily life using simple ball point pens and spent five years developing her skills in her living room. Then she discovered sketching on location and now works with paints, inks, markers and colored pencils to create more expressive, colorful work. She teaches workshops (including in prisons) and has had her work collected in a monograph, Andrea’s Book.
Find Andrea’s recent drawings on Instagram.
Courses
- Art Bootcamp
- Seeing
Brenda Swenson
Pasadena, CA
Brenda Swenson is a California artist. Her award-winning paintings and sketches have been featured in countless books and magazines. Therefore, she’s in demand to demonstrate and teach her painting and sketching techniques to groups nationwide and abroad. Moreover, Brenda is the artist-author of, Keeping a Watercolor Sketchbook (Award of Excellence Finalist) and Steps to Success in Watercolor.
Find out more: brendaswenson.blogspot.com
Courses
- Seeing
Carlos Aponte
New Jersey, USA
Carlos Aponte is a fashion Illustrator and teaches at NY’s Fashion Institute of Technology. Check out his visual diary on Instagram and his amazing fashion style artwork, also on Instagram.
Courses
- People Drawing People
Cathy Johnson
Excelsior Springs, MO
Cathy Johnson is an artist, writer and naturalist. She has written and illustrated 34 books of her own, and contributed to many others. As an introverted extrovert, she explores the world by traveling, sketchbooking, reading and teaching. She will always bring a big portion of humor, maybe some friends and family, or even her cat.
To see more of her work, check out her site: cathyjohnson.info
Find her books here and her classes here.
Courses
- Seeing
France Van Stone
Pennsylvania, USA
France is a French-American author and teacher. Her book, Sketch!, encourages everyone to take a few minutes out of the day and practice drawing, either digitally or on paper. She is a self-taught artist who also teaches French in a public high school. She has been teaching at Sketchbook Skool since 2015. Her fascination with old Volvo wagons inspired her to call herself wagonized and her work is featured at wagonized.com.
France believes her limitations are her greatest gift: no fancy tools or verbiage — just a ballpoint pen and a piece of photocopy paper will do.
Courses
- Art Bootcamp
- People Drawing People
Ian Fennelly
England
Ian Fennelly is an artist and teacher working in the UK. Ian studied painting at the Wimbledon School of Art and has a professional background in drawing and painting. Ian works predominantly on-location capturing cityscapes.
Ian excels in meticulous renderings of street scenes using sketching tools, ink mediums, and watercolors, and often combines the three mediums. His approach is both methodical and alive- he paints quickly and loosely in the context of very accurate drawings. Check out his website and Instagram page to see more of his work.
Courses
- Watercolor Rules
Ian Sidaway
England
Ian Sidaway is a teacher, author, and artist and has published more than 30 award-winning books on drawing and watercoloring. He teaches painting workshops and regularly contributes to magazines on art and painting technique. He has been featured in many galleries and museum exhibitions, and he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Watercolor Painters. He lives outside of London.
You can see more of his work at: iansidawaystudio.blogspot.com
Courses
- Watercolor Rules
Inma Serrano
Barcelona, Spain
Inma studied Arts at the University of Sevilla, specializing in Painting. She has been an Art educator for over 15 years, teaching courses in Painting, Creative Drawing, Photography, and Urban Sketching. She has participated in national and international exhibitions of her travel sketchbooks and graphic diaries.
You can check out her blog here.
Courses
- Watercolor Rules
Jane Lafazio
San Diego, CA
After years as a graphic designer and textile artist, Jane LaFazio fell in love with drawing and realized that she was an artist too. She developed into a renowned watercolorist and sketchbooker and leads workshops around the world. She is also a pioneer of online art instruction, inspiring many with her warmth and passion for creativity..
For more of Jane’s art visit: janelafazio.com
Courses
- Art Bootcamp
Jason Das
New York
Jason Das is a comic book artist and teacher at The New School and the former president of the worldwide Urban Sketchers. Find out more about him on his website and follow his sketch adventures on Instagram.
Courses
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People Drawing People
Jennifer Orkin Lewis
New York City
Jennifer Orkin Lewis is a painter, illustrator, and author working in New York City. You might know her by her pen name, August Wren, under which she has produced lots of incredible art. She is known for her daily sketchbook paintings which she has been doing for over 5 years. Every day (weekends and vacations included) she paints for up to 30 minutes the things that surround and inspire her. After graduating from RISD, she worked for years as a textile stylist designing prints for children's clothing and lingerie before becoming an illustrator. In addition to her daily paintings and sketches, she has worked with clients such as Anthropologie, Abrams Books, Chronicle Books, Flow Magazine, Kate Spade, Eeboo, TeNeues, Roger La Borde, and many more.
Her first book, Draw Every Day, Draw Every Way, is a creative guided journal that encourages people to find daily inspiration and develop a daily drawing habit. The follow-up book, 100 Days of Drawing, is scheduled for release on September 4th, 2018. You can see more of her work on her website.
Courses
- Watercolor Rules
Koosje Koene
Amsterdam, Holland
Koosje Koene drew all the time as a kid in Holland … and she never stopped. She went to school to study graphic design, then worked for ten years as an award-winning professional photographer. But eventually her love of drawing and painting took over, and she became an illustrator and began blogging and teaching drawing online. She is also one of Sketchbook Skool's co-founders!
Koosje just loves to make things, and her sweet sense of humor and wild enthusiasm will inspire you to make drawing part of your life too. See more about Koosje on her website at koosjekoene.com.
Courses
- Art Bootcamp
- Dip Into Dip Pens
- People Drawing People
- Seeing
- Watercolor Rules
Michael Nobbs
Wales, UK
Michael is an artist, author, podcaster and tea drinker (not necessarily in that order). At the end of the 1990s, he was diagnosed with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and, over the last two decades, has learned a lot about maintaining a creative career with limited energy. He blogs and runs a lovely creative community at gogently.co and is the author of Drawing Your Life: Learn to See, Record, and Appreciate Life’s Small Joys. He likes to draw with his finger.
Courses
- Art Bootcamp
Ohn Mar Win
United Kingdom
Ohn Mar is a professional illustrator based in England. When she arrived in the United Kingdom from Burma as a child, it took her a while to learn to read and write English, but art was a universal language. Her focus on drawing and painting intensified when, as a teenager, she discovered that illustrating could become a career. Her plan: become great with paints, brushes, pencils, and stacks of paper. It worked—she graduated with a degree in Advertising and Design, created greeting cards, and then pursued a career in editorial illustration. Three years ago, she returned to full-time illustration after taking a break to be with her two small children.
See what Ohn Mar is up to on Instagram.
Courses
- Art Bootcamp
Prashant Miranda
Canada & India
Prashant Miranda splits his life between Toronto and balmy India. A talented painter, muralist author, and award-winning animator, he was the subject of a National Geographic documentary about his travels drawing across his native India. Prash is a deep and gentle man who will inspire you with the beauty he sees all across the world.
Learn more about him at: prashart.blogspot.com
Courses
- Art Bootcamp
Salli Swindell
Hudson, OH
Salli S. Swindell is a freelance illustrator with over 30 years of experience creating art for the social expressions industry. She is a seven-time nominee and a three-time winner of the Louie Award, the greeting card industry’s highest honor.
When not in her studio illustrating greeting cards, Salli is probably at the kitchen counter filling her sketchbook pages with food drawings, patterns, and other random things. Salli and her brother Nate Padavick, who is specialized in illustrating maps, are the founders of They Draw & Cook and They Draw & Travel, the Internet’s largest collection of illustrated recipes and maps from artists around the world.
Find out more about Salli at her website.
Courses
- Art Bootcamp
Tommy Kane
Brooklyn, NY
Tommy is a legendary New York creative illustrator and art director who loves to draw in a sketchbook. His work has been featured in scores of ads, commercials, and books on journaling. He combines intense observation, manic crosshatching, and insane hilarity in every drawing he does. Follow his adventures at his blog and look for his two published monographs, An Excuse to Draw and All My Photographs Are Made with Pens. Tommy lives in Brooklyn. NY.
See more of his work at: tommykane.com
Courses
- Art Bootcamp
Vanessa Brantley Newton
Charlotte, NC
Vanessa Brantley Newton was born during the Civil Rights movement and attended school in Newark, NJ. Being part of a diverse, tight-knit community during such turbulent times, Vanessa learned the importance of acceptance and empowerment in shaping a young person’s life. When she read Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, it was the first time she saw herself in a children’s book. It was a defining moment in her life, and has made her into the artist she is today. As an illustrator, she includes children of all ethnic backgrounds in her stories and artwork. She wants all children to see their unique experiences reflected in the books they read, so they can feel the same sense of empowerment and recognition she experienced as a young reader.
See more about Vanessa on her website vanessabrantleynewton.com
Courses
- Art Bootcamp
