Young Artists Course by Melanie Phillips - Childrens home study art course with the London Art College

Drawing for Children Course 1 (YA1)

Course Overview
This course is suitable for age 7 years and up. It instructs the young student in the basic understanding of how to draw in an interesting and captivating way. The young student will have hands on experience throughout the entire course, with choices of exercises at the end of each section to complete and send to the college. This course will give the young student an excellent grounding and will guide them gently in the correct way to learn to draw. The course is fully illustrated with colour step-by-step guides and exercises.

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Course Prices
Please visit our 'Prices and Buy Now' page to view the course prices and to purchase your course. UK residents can purchase courses on this page via instalments, please scroll down to the relevant section to pay a deposit.

Critiques
If you have scanning / photography facilities, students are able to upload their artwork to the Artwork Submission Area on our website. Each student is given a unique username and password on enrolment for their own private section in this area. Students can upload their artwork to this area for the tutor to collect and critique. The tutor will then upload feedback for the student to download or read.

Critiques via Regular Mail
If you do not have any facilities to upload your artwork, you can send your work in the normal way to the tutors centre and receive your artwork back with your critique. It is essential you label all packages/artwork your student number.

Support
All our courses are written to be complete in themselves. However we realise that students may appreciate being able to get clarification about various things as they work through their programme as well wanting reassurance that they are putting techniques into practice effectively. The tutors provide the technical support to deal with relevant queries.

Most courses have their own dedicated Tutor. The tutor keeps the course up to date and relevant to today's students. They are available to the individual student for advice and encouragement. Each course has regular exercises and assignments that are constructed in such a way as to give the student the opportunity to practice the techniques learnt on the course and to test themselves as they go along. The student is encouraged to submit the assignment work to the college for the tutor to critique. The student's work will be returned together with the tutor's personal critique. On many courses the assignment work may be suitable for inclusion in a student's Portfolio of Work that could be very useful later. The college will use the assignments submitted as the basis for any award of a letter, certificate or diploma.

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This is an example drawing from a student who has completed the first set of exercises. You can see how they are beginning to develop their observational skills.
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The great news is that you don't need any previous experience to take this course. The duration of this course is approximately 6 months. To read more about home education and the young artists courses please Visit our home education page.

Duration
The expected duration is three months although the college allows students up to a year to complete their studies.

Overview
This course is suitable for all students ages 7 to 14 years old. The following is an overview of some of the areas that are covered in the course.

Media: Equipment used	Subject: Areas covered	Techniques: Skills developed
Graphite Pencil Coloured Pencils	Drawing / Shading Objects Light and Shade Creating Shadows 3D Shapes and Text	Observation Shading Tonal Strips Perspective

Samples pages from this course - click to enlarge

Testimonials from students

Dear Melanie, Thank you for your kind comments and encouragement. Lynsey is keen to do more watercolour work using the techniques you described for the frog. Lynsey enjoyed searching through the cupboard for food cartons to draw - she thought it was great that you had corn flakes in England too! The packet design seems to be universal. We have bought a putty eraser as suggested in the previous critique and she has been having a go at shiny surfaces. When she did the teddy bear poem, we discovered that her handwriting improves enormously if there are lines as a guide!
Many thanks, Jayne and Lynsey - Drawing for Children Course 1 (YA1)