ArtGym

Build your skills as an illustrator through live practice sessions and a vibrant art community. Join professional instructors for structured, fun classes designed to develop your creative work and portfolio. Perfect for beginners to career artists.
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1:12:23
Color Swatching
Make a full color palette from 3 tubes of paint
Jun 4•Katie Stack and Adam Ming
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1:39:12
An Encounter with Style Part 2: Drawing Cakes
Encounter With Style — Part 2: Drawing Cakes + Exploring Color
Apr 21•Katie Stack and Adam Ming
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1:56:54
Encounter With Style — Part 1: Drawing Tigers 🐅
Watch now (117 mins)  Explore 3 illustrator styles, build a paper mannequin, and get a fresh encounter with your own Style!
Mar 11•Katie Stack and Adam Ming
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1:30:22
No more boring trees! 🌳🌲🌴
Drawing Trees (+ a bonus texture exercise)
Feb 5•Katie Stack and Adam Ming
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1:30:44
5 Ways to Draw Birds
From folk art to paper cutting!
Jan 14•Katie Stack and Adam Ming
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2:04:01
FREE Art Gym: Guided Reflection Quilt Workshop (Replay)
The Annual Reflection Quilt Workshop Is Here!
Dec 10, 2025•Katie Stack and Adam Ming
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1:36:09
Drawing Shoes
Let loose and draw some funky footwear!
Nov 13, 2025•Katie Stack and Adam Ming
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1:25:27
Spooky Art Gym 🎃🍬🦇
Create Halloween Art + Learn a Creative Prompt Exercise
Oct 22, 2025•Katie Stack and Adam Ming
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What we drew at Art Gym
5 Ways to draw birds
Jan 16•Adam Ming
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Illustration is not drawing it’s a way of working.
Illustrations as a way of working.
Jan 9•Adam Ming
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January Workshop: The BIRBS
3 reasons to draw birds!
Jan 7•Adam Ming
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Enroll in Art Gym!
It’s the Gym Membership you’ll actually use!
Nov 21, 2025•Adam Ming and Katie Stack
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One Request from Katie Stack
Please don’t make them scary!
Sep 19, 2025•Adam Ming and Katie Stack
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How Drawing Dogs Can Get You Work
Drawing dogs landed me a dream client (+ how dogs can help your illustration practice)
Aug 19, 2025•Katie Stack
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Illustration is not drawing it’s a way of working.
Jan 9•Adam Ming

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The next Art Gym is on Wednesday, July 1 — This is your invitation to draw with us!
Aug 21, 2025•Adam Ming and Katie Stack

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5 Ways to Draw Birds
Jan 14•Katie Stack and Adam Ming

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How to actually draw creative thumbnails that tell a story
Jun 2, 2025•Katie Stack and Adam Ming

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Scribbly Thumbnails!: The Secret to Better Book Spreads?
Jun 4, 2025•Katie Stack

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Best of Art Gym

1:34:08
Best of Art Gym: How to Draw Dogs 🐶
Learn the Swoop + Snout Technique
Aug 21, 2025•Katie Stack
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1:35:09
Best of Art Gym: Graphic Drawing Made Easy: Simplify Your Drawing with Bold Shapes 🦀
Graphic Drawing Workshop (Replay)
Jul 31, 2025•Katie Stack
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1:18:56
Scribbly Thumbnails!: The Secret to Better Book Spreads?
Watch now (79 mins)  Thumbnails Workshop (Replay)
Jun 4, 2025•Katie Stack
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1:41:50
Best of ArtGym Gym: Dynamic Sports Poses —Adding Energy and Spark to Your Characters
3 Simple Rules for Drawing Dynamic Poses
May 10, 2025•Katie Stack
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1:24:13
Best of Art Gym: Art Gym: Environment Workshop
Draw Picture-book Environments with Adam Ming & Katie Stack
Jul 18, 2024•Katie Stack
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1:04:28
Icons Workshop
Creating with icons
Jul 18, 2024•Katie Stack and Adam Ming
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