Kids Cartoon Academy with Daniel Grissom

🚀 Check out Benji's finished artwork. What a brilliant imagination coming alive in these pages! The style is so cool! And such a great sense of design, detail, and color. Well done! 🤩 🙌

🌟 I love seeing all your posts in our Community! It's an amazing feeling that I get to teach these incredibly talented young artists.

🚀 Nourish your child's creativity and imagination and join our global community of artists where kids can enjoy membership perks that will help them level up faster. Sign up here for the waitlist: kidscartoonacademy.com

🔹 What an incredible array of styles! 🤩
Louis is doing such a great job of using the tutorials in creating these characters from the highly awaited Nightmare Fuel for Gamers course!

🔵 In the Members Portal, you can find the “Draw Now Library” where you have access to 120+ hours of on-demand tutorials, and more added every month! It's one of the awesome perks students get in the membership. It allows them to take their time and get every detail just right, all at their own pace apart from our weekly live classes where we get repeated practice in our sketchbooks.

🔹 I'll be dropping more tutorials over the next coming weeks! 🥳
💬 Join us here at kidscartoonacademy.com, or, DM to sign up for the waitlist.

🟩 In our weekly cartoon classes, we've been learning how cubes are used in so many types of drawings to make them more 3D, learning how to combine them, practicing drawing them from different angles and even making our favorite characters out of them! 🤩

🟥 Abby, Mateo, Reese, Bruce and Arjan made these awesome drawings! Look how adorable these characters turned out! 🌟

🟨 Join our global community of young artists by signing up here for the waitlist: kidscartoonacademy.com

🎨✨Let's congratulate NOVEMBER's Artist Spotlight Winners! 👏

Ahaana, Reid and Indra! 🤩

I bet you've never drawn Green from Rainbow Friends like this before.

Tomorrow, Kids Cartoon Academy members get to learn how.

💥 Has your child seen our new Challenges? This is the best way to motivate your child to draw even when they can’t attend live.

Members are sharing their best work from our live and recorded classes and are busy encouraging each other in our Challenges.

We have a couple Challenges per month…They help kids become proactive INDEPENDENT learners who are making great art and pushing their skills.

They my students focus their efforts and put their learning into action.

It’s all part of the Kids Cartoon Academy Membership.

💥 Join our membership and participate in fun art challenges in our Community for Kids – we'd love to have you on board! Sign up here for the waitlist: kidscartoonacademy.com

Today in my small group Creature Design class, we learned how you can draw anything once you master 3D shapes. This nasty little feller was drawn primarily from cubes and cylinders.

Is your child interested in leveling up their drawing skills?

DM me to snag a spot in my small group classes.

✎ More awesome entries from our recent workshop with Pro artist, Miss Amanda from our Tooniversity: Realistic Art classes. She taught us her process and led us to draw a realistic turkey.

✎ Look at how my talented students, Ciaran, Gabriella, Indra and Merl showed great attention to detail! 🌟

✎ Come join our growing community of artists in our TOONIVERSITY Small Group classes by signing up here: kidscartoonacademy.com

Congrats to last week's brilliant Artist Spotlight winner: INDRA! Great job on drawing these monster characters and the realistic turkey! 🤩

⭐️ How awesome it is that June's getting so good at pushing her values darker, and getting more variation!

⭐️ She's in our Tooniversity: Anime & Manga Small Group Classes hosted by the talented Miss Kaitlyn, one of our Pro artists in Kids Cartoon Academy.

⭐️ Our Small Group Classes + Accelerated Learning Program offers 50% OFF on your first month! Accelerate your child's growth and get access to our How-to-Draw Library, Personalized Feedback, Bonus Classes and more!! Sign up here before seats are taken: kidscartoonacademy.com

🟦 Lots of great pieces by our students are being posted and these are just some of them! 🤩

🟡 These were done in one of our live Zoom classes where we talked about how hidden cubes are everywhere and how they make characters more 3D

🔺 Our Tooniversity membership offers 50% OFF on your first month! Level up your child's skills and creative confidence by signing up here before seats are taken: kidscartoonacademy.com

🌟 We're SO IMPRESSED by these talented students' artwork and were blown away by their attention to detail in our recent Realistic Turkey Workshop held by our Pro Artist— Miss Amanda!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! 🥳

I'm so grateful for everyone in this Cartooning Community, from the students who pursue their passion to the parents who support them. Thank you!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
-Daniel

📢 Here are some of the things you get in my membership program:

💥 Our members get to join the Family Drawing Class every month! We love it when parents join in on the fun! There are Games, Awards, and lots of Drawing. It's the perfect family activity to connect with your child through their love of art.

💥 Also, members get the highly awaited Nightmare Fuel for Gamers this weekend! I'm dropping two tutorials per week over the next five weeks. (This weekend's tutorials— one is scary, the other is a little cuter, so there's something for everyone.)

💥 Learn all my coloring and shading tricks to take that next big leap in your art. PLUS personalized feedback with the Critique Corner Masterclass. It's all happening in December!

📢 Want to be part of our monthly workshops and weekly drawing classes? Learn more about the membership and join the waitlist here: kidscartoonacademy.com

Congrats to last week's brilliant Artist Spotlight winner: REID! Well done creating this 3D creature and applying your learning to new art. 👏

👾 Look who's on a roll! Arjan created again another incredible set of monsters! We are never over monster making as we all love it!😆

👾 Great job taking what you learned in our classes and applying it to more art! 🙌

👾 Comment below what other monster characters you'd like to see Arjan make in this style!

What a weekend at Kids Cartoon Academy!

On Saturday, we built off of last week’s cube lesson as we found and drew “hidden” cubes in our art. Working in basic 3D shapes is the next great leap for many young artists to make. We sketched a 3D monster by combining cubes, and then I turned him into a new version of a Crankyfurter afterwards. 😆

Then Sunday, pro artist Amanda Kazemi shared about her art, and taught us her process as she led us in drawing a realistic turkey!

Members, lots of great pieces by our students are being posted in the Community for Artists, so go check them out if you haven’t! You can post it here for all of us too if you’d like!

We’re live in one hour!!! The art that students produce under Miss Amanda’s guidance is always spectacular (just check it out).

Members, you’ve got the link in your email and calendar! See you soon!

🎉 No one can stop these young artists from making awesome art! Crankyfurters defeated! 🥳

🎉 When kids see their work improving, that makes it easy for them to feel more confident and easier to overcome those discouraging voices that make them feel bad about their art.

🎉 Join us at kidscartoonacademy.com for weekly live classes and grow your child's joy, creativity, and confidence!

🌟 Behind every one of our artists is a proud parent cheering them on.

🌟 In Kids Cartoon Academy, I make it the best experience for children who were like me as a child—creative, wildly imaginative, and looking for guidance and support.

🌟 What are you most proud of from your child's art today?

💥 What a difference continued practice makes! This is our student Krishiv's art, exactly one year apart!

💥 Encourage your child to look back at their old art to see how far they've come.

💥 How have you seen your little artists grow lately?

🚀 Just want to share how awesome my students are for defeating crankyfurters! (Crankyfurters are those discouraging voices that keep us feeling bad about ourselves and our art.)

🚀 In Kids Cartoon Academy, I teach kids how to overcome negative self-talk and build confidence in their artistic abilities.

🚀 We also have a supportive and encouraging community that can help them keep grow as confident artists!

🚀 Unleash your child's artistic potential by signing up here: kidscartoonacademy.com

Congrats to last week's brilliant Artist Spotlight winner: AHAANA! Adorable work on the monster sketches and I love the princesses in two different styles. Such an artist! 🤩

🌟 One of my brilliant students, Siu, drew this awesome customized Mario art using the techniques she learned in class — how to construct characters from basic shapes. It's the funniest, grossest, creepiest Mario I've ever seen! 🤣

🌟 If you want to join in on the fun and unleash your artistic skills, head over to kidscartoonacademy.com!

Happy Diwali! 🪔

✍️ Harry did a whole FNAF series and they're all amazing! Check these out! 🤩

✍️ I taught my students how to make their own 3D animatronic monsters, and they got access to my entire 6-lesson series, the “Scary Animatronics Course: Learn to Draw Your Favorite FNAF Characters” in the Member's Portal.

✍️ Unlock your child's creative potential! Join our community of young artists by signing up here: kidscartoonacademy.com

Last Saturday in our live Zoom class, members learned about the more you see like an artist, the more you notice how the best characters are made of basic shapes, and you also CONSTRUCT your own characters first from basic shapes. My method for developing this habit is working with circles, squares, and triangles—and stretching, bending, and pinching them.

Combine those modified shapes in different ways and the results are endless and awesome.

Members even got my Downloadable Guides: Character Design from Basic Shapes! (Members, it's attached on the Replay in case you missed it. And it's in the Tips and Resources in the Community for Artists 😊)

🖼️ Look at how one of my talented students catches so many of the little details!

💥 I love seeing how much she's developing her artist's eye. Such great practice! 🙌

💥 Our engaging weekly classes provide a nurturing environment where young artists can explore their potential.

💥 Join our waitlist at kidscartoonacademy.com

Tip: Use primary and secondary shapes for your creature/character designs.

1️⃣ Choose one type of shape as the primary shape of your design. (Rounded, blocky, or pointy)
2️⃣ Repeat variations of that shape throughout, from the head to the toes
3️⃣ Choose another shape for your smaller secondary shapes and sprinkle just a few smaller variations of those throughout

This improvised creature from class today is mostly circles and skinny, blocky shapes

🙌 More awesome progress from my student in Kids Cartoon Academy. He designed a T-shirt for Adobe along with his supportive parents.🌟

🙌 Way to use that talent! Ready to join the fun? Sign up here: kidscartoonacademy.com

🎨✨Let's congratulate OCTOBER's Artist Spotlight Winners! 👏

Petar, Julius, C**t, Johnny and Nora! 🤩

In our small group class last week, we learned how to look at references and exaggerate their features for a stylized look. 👀 we have a few spots left. DM me if you’re interested.

"We're too busy. How will my child do it all?"

😊 I understand that life happens, and your child might not be able to attend every session. Don't worry. You have access to the Draw Now Library — over 120 On-Demand Tutorials and Class Replays that teach kids how to develop their skills and learn new techniques, on their own time! ⏰

Today's the last day for enrollment! Sign up now at: kidscartoonacademy.com/membership

👀 Check out the rapid growth of one of our brilliant artists, Khush!

At Kids Cartoon Academy, you can see your child inspired, making art they are proud of, and thriving as an artist. 🧑🎨

That's what Kids Cartoon Academy PROMISES to deliver.

✍️ Enrollment closes tonight, so join now at: kidscartoonacademy.com

Creature Design Tip: use contrast. GIANT and tiny, in the same creature. Note how the interesting look of this creature I drew with students in a class comes primarily from the GIANT ARMS AND TAIL contrasted with the tiny head and feet.

Push your original creatures’ sizes further than you think would work, and you’ll be surprised at the amazing results.

Want more tips every week? Join the membership which closes up tonight: kidscartoonacademy.com/membership