Cara Ord Create

 

Learn with unique creative classes

Along with providing design and creative services, I also offer a large selection of creative classes to help you in your own artistic pursuits. From design and branding to illustration and creative thinking, there a classes on offer for all creative endeavours. Peruse the class list below and start your creative education today. I am here to offer support to you in your art and design pursuits, contact me through the form below with any queries or questions you might have.

 

30 Days, 30 Ways to Fill Your Sketchbook

Sketching everyday is the best way to grow as an artist. A new sketchbook can be daunting and often inspiration is lost in the presence of a pristine page. This class will alleviate those fears and give you 30 unique exercises that will help you fill your sketchbook and grow as an artist. Each exercise is designed to grow a different aspect of your art skills and the class covers a broad range of mediums and subject matter so there is something fun for everyone.


Draw with me | Real-time Portrait Painting Masterclass

This class is Bob Ross for portrait art. Come along with me for a real-time painting session where I go through my entire process for drawing a digital portrait illustration. From sketching your idea to choosing a colour palette, working with values and adding texture, this class covers everything you need to know about painting a portrait.


How to Emote you Characters in Realistic, Manga and Comic styles

The beauty about art and illustration is its capacity to tell a visual story. A lot of story telling is done through emotion and expression which can be very tricky to master. This class takes you through the 5 key human emotions which all other emotion is made up of and shows you how to convey these expressions in your drawings in 3 different styles!


Adding Personality to your Characters | Illustration and Character Development

This class really breaks down each aspect of building a character, right from anatomy to posture and props, to help highlight how to make a good story. The class is accompanied by a workbook which will guide you through your projects and help you layer each aspect of character step by step. By the end of this class you will have a fully developed character as well as all the knowledge you need to create intriguing personalities and stories in your art. 


Mimicry to Mastery: Drawing Portraits from Reference

This class will take you through the basics of illustrating from reference. Helping you improve your eye and hand skills in developing likeness in your imagery. This class is great for any skill level, it can help you with a basic understanding of drawing as well as improve the skills of a fine artist. We will go all the way from understanding the anatomy of a face and working with basic shapes to rendering a realistic or stylised portrait .


Warming up - Exercises to Help you Create your Best Art

This class is designed to help you relax into your art works and help you produce your best art every time. The exercises demonstrated in this series will activate both your hand and your eye and help increase your level of illustration at a higher pace.


Finding your style: Make art that is uniquely yours

One of the most common questions I see float across the art world is how did you find your style? or I don’t quite know my style. This is something which took me a while to answer and master myself, however here it is. This class will take you through a tried and tested process that I have developed to help you find your artistic style. 


Creating an eBook

This class will take you step by step through the process of creating an ebook or free product incentive for your clients. This is a great class if you want too: promote your business, build a clientele base or mailing list, give back to your customers and make yourself and your business approachable.


How to draw a face: portraiture class

In this class we will go through step by step how to draw a face. From measurements and anatomy to exploring each feature of the face and including tips and tricks to enhance your drawing skills along the way. This is a highly comprehensive class which is great for beginners as well as those of you who want to level up your drawing skills.


How to use a sketchbook to get the best out of your art

This class will help you rapidly enhance your art and illustration skills using your sketchbook. View this class if you are looking for tips and advice on how to utilise this simple tool and are ready to progress your art to the next level.


Create a Portfolio that gets you hired

Whether you work as a designer, artist, illustrator or any type of creative, a portfolio is an essential piece of your tool kit. It helps you define who you are as a creative and most of all shows your employability. In this class I will take your through the whole process of creating a portfolio that will get people talking.


Illustrate your own watercolour bouquet

Join this class to create beautiful floral watercolour illustrations. Learn how to compose your floral artworks and design a bouquet. Follow along the classes to learn some great tips about watercolour work and best practices.


Get productive in your creative projects

Have you ever felt like you have thousands of creative ideas running around your brain and no time to do any of them? Or do you start projects and never finish them? This class is here to solve these problems for you. Come along to learn tips and tricks to help you create productively and get those projects completed.