Several of our illustrators, graphic designers and animators offer creative courses, workshops and lectures. At Illustratörcentrum you’ll find creatives providing a wide range of courses, both within the Skapande skola framework as well as in other contexts.
Please feel free to contact us if you need help with booking the artists below.
Contact us for advice at
E-mail. info@illustratorcentrum.se
Ph. +46 8 702 14 06
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
Illustration / design of educational materials for children. I’ve illustrated over 200 titles: from reading training books and exercise books, to fiction books about animals and nature. I have also written several children’s books.
Through lectures, workshops and courses, I like to inspire and share my experiences. Eg: How to work as an illustrator. How to make a book. Different ways to be creative with words and pictures. Content is adapted to each group’s age and background.
My workshops:
• Make pictures talk
• Make a font
• Graphic design
• Letters & alphabets
• Art history -one era, one motif, one techniques/course
The workshops includes an exciting lecture and slide show. Several workshops can be combined to make a longer book project. Read more here!
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
Please contact me for information in english.
A philosophical perspective opens the eyes of our basic conditions as humans. My workshops mixes philosophical input, quick drawing exercises and reflection. The workshop generates interesting and unexpected dialog. Perfect for starting a seminar or teambuilding day, when you need to think outside the box or are in the process of a major change.
As mostly of my books comes from my life I want the children to find stories from there. I tell them about myself and how I got some ideas. Give them simple writing tips. As I´m also an illustrator I show what the picture add. A funny moment is when I draw first and they draw after without knowing what they are drawing.
Basic or advanced workshops suitable for ages ten and up. Fun and accessable drawing exercises gives the participants the tools to build their own story and populate it with well-developed characters. The comics course focuses on making comics from start to finish. The manga course also focuses on the origin of Japanese comics and what manga is like today. Available as basic as well as advanced workshops/courses.
I am an educated art teacher and animation film director. I do workshops in visual expression and storytelling. About how to compose your picture from an idea and feeling.
I´m a bookbinder and during the years I´ve had different educational assignments for schools and private groups. I offer schools workshops where we create with paper. I teach how to make instant books with different kinds of effects such as pop-up and snake books. You can also book me for a workshop in basic paperconstuction.
Learn how to tell a story with pictures. Create a character and make it come to life. What brings the story forward? How do you reach out with your message. Workshop for grownups or children, in school or business. I create the workshop to your needs.
Freelance designer and illustrator in the game, ad and movie industry. Works digitally and holds classes, lectures and workshops in illustration and design; Both more general classes like “Design for games” and “color/shape language” but also student guidance and more specific courses in technique, approach and light/material description as well as live painting.
This workshop is about creating a fictional character and what it looks like. What does the illustrator know about the character that no one else knows? How does an illustrator work? How do you draw feelings, perspectives, and what secrets are there that only illustrators know about? And how is it possible to draw a character exactly the same but from different angles in a whole book?
For information please contact me via mail or phone.
Concept 1. I talk about how I do when I write and illustrate. I show sketches and original.
Students will have different writing exercises and then get to do illustrations/covers.
This can be adapted to different age of groups/grades.
Concept 2. Students will draw their self-portrait and try to do it differently by thinking of light, volume and shadow. Based on the self-portrait, they write a fictional story, because fictional stories can often say more about the person than the pure facts.
For information please contact me via mail or phone.
With iPads we create short animated stories. The workshop can be done in a full or half day. I bring the technology needed. After the workshop we publish the animations on youtube. Read more: http://erikhedman.com/skapande-skola/
I offer a picture book workshop for children in preschool to middle school age. Together we create a fictional character and a story about the one that we then illustrate. I also tell you a bit about how I work as an illustrator.
I also offer a lecture about the process of creating a book that suits older children.
Welcome to contact me for more information!
Make your own rubber stamps or linocuts! Discover the unique magic of printmaking through drawing, carving and printing by hand.
Tian makes linocuts and custom rubber stamps; she also offers workshops and courses. The content will be arranged based on the participants’ age and background.
I arrange a workshop in comic making for children in middle and secondary school. We go through the basics in comic making, like speech bubbles and face expressions, and the children get to make their own comics, with or without text.
I’m used to explaining to children who are limited in Swedish, and I can adjust the workshop so it fits the group of children.
Drawing characters
When you’re a comic artist, you don’t have to draw realistic, but you can make your characters realistic with some tricks. I show and tell and give out drawing exercises on how to draw faces, bodies and movement. If there’s extra time, I also show some basics in hands, feet and animals. The workshop is suitable for children between the ages of 9 – 12.
Creative School, Workshop
Pacing in comics – sequential storytelling
A lecture on the storytelling techniques unique for comics and sequential art. Using various examples, I explain how to make a comic readable, exiting and fulfilling. I also talk about what you can do to make environments believable and characters likeable.
Lectures
Lecture combine with drawing workshop
I have held lectures and conducted projects at libraries and schools in Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, Belarus, Kosovo and Ukraine.
About the illustrator visits:
Before the visit, I come to an agreement with the organizer about the theme of the lecture. The theme be how to drawing fantasy, -comics, -manga, -fantasy, -hero’s & monster, -cartoon or something else. When we agree on a theme I will send the exercise sheets and information beforehand.
A shorter drawing workshop usually lasts 2-4 hours depending on age.
The age group can be from 8 years and up.
At the visit:
After Presentation and some warm-up exercises, it continues with exercises to the theme we have agreed on. Sometimes I present a slide show. Finally, the participants will choose what they want to illustrate and I will give them individual tutoring.
Workshop, creating school:
The layout is similar to the shorter version of the illustrator visits. Although the themes are often longer and more elaborated with several working elements.
The drawing is usually combined with storytelling and a school subject, such as history.
Usually I have several different classes at each visit from 45 minutes to 90 minutes per class.
You are welcome to contact me for more information.
ANIMATION
Lecture
Starting from the history of animation, the lecture revolves around different approaches and techniques, focusing on small-scale and analog productions. The aim is to provide the participants with knowledge and inspiration to try some animation on their own.
STOP MOTION ANIMATION
Workshop
Discover the amazing feeling of making dead objects come to life! The participants build scenographies and make their own animation with materials at hand. The workshop begins with some tips and inspirational examples.
FLIPBOOK ANIMATION
Workshop
Participants make animations by drawing page by page in a book or pad. The workshop begins with some tips and inspirational examples. Give your drawings life!
PHOTOSHOP, BASIC
Workshop or lecture
Basic education in Adobe Photoshop, the leading program in image editing. The participants learn about the most commonly used tool, image editing, drawing and painting, and how to save images for print or for screen.
PHOTOSHOP, ADVANCED
Workshop or lecture
Adobe Photoshop for more experienced users. The workshop/lecture can be tailored to your wishes. Examples of subjects: image editing, background extraction, drawing and painting, basic animation.
INDESIGN, BASIC
Workshop or animation
Learn the basics of Adobe InDesign, the layoutprogram where you can create books, folders and other products for print. We talk about tools and properties, how to link images and how to keep a consistent design. The participants also learn about text formatting, and how to export for print or screen.
Paint with coffee and tea
A workshop inspired by the picture books Kompisen i hissen and Vara med, painted with coffee and tea. We make our own coffee and tea and explore these mediums. The participants get to know different techniques that utilizes the properties of coffe and tea to make patterns and pictures.
Illustrator for a day
Get to know how to work with pictures in books. We begin with a discussion about what pictures can tell. I then show how I work, from a first sketch to a final illustration. The participants get concrete tips about what to think about regarding composition, colouring and the interplay between text and pictures. Finally they get to illustrate a short text.
From an idea to a finished book
A workshop with me and the author Minette Lidberg. With starting point from one of our books, we tell about the process from a first idea to a finished book. What is an author? How do you start? What is an illustrator? What can the pictures tell? How do you make a book cover? We perform simple writing exercises and illustrate our texts.