Course Information

Age Group: Upper Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Adults

Are you ready for a digital journey? Eric Israel, an artist with over 30 years’ experience, will take you on a journey from traditional painting to digital painting. You will get to try drawing different types of animals and play with two software: Adobe Illustrator and Procreate. He will also show how he use an open tool to create augmented reality with his drawings.

Our artist will review all works that you have submitted and give you suggestions on how you may improve your drawings.

Let’s get started on this Digital Safari journey!

Teow Kok Hua, Eric Israel

Trained in Advertising Art since young, Eric spent nearly 40 years in the advertising, creative design, hospitality, media and publishing industries as draftsman, graphics designer, studio manager, art director and entrepreneur. His art works include Sharity the Elephant. Eric has been featured in national media for his art education.

Course Content

About the Artist
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Let us get to know Eric Israel. Watch how he turns his signature into a Pop Art painting in 1 minute!

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  0H 05M

Painting in Traditional Medium
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Watch Eric Israel demonstrate speed painting of a Panda in traditional medium on a large piece of paper.

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  0H 05M

Tips to Paint a Panda
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Step-by-step tips on how to break the Panda into different parts and to paint it in pop art style.

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Visual Arts
  0H 05M

Painting in Traditional Art Medium
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Start Date: 31st March - 31st December (SGT)

Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator
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Let's get started with our software and explore how to use it!

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Visual Arts
  0H 20M

Understanding the Pen Tool
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Let's practice using the pen tool!

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Visual Arts
  0H 05M

Getting Digital
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Start Date: 31st March - 31st December (SGT)

Painting with Layers and Colours
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In this video, Eric Israel demonstrates how to use Adobe Illustrator to separate the digital drawing into layers and to paint with colours on each layer.

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Visual Arts
  0H 25M

Colour Me Up!
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Start Date: 31st March - 31st December (SGT)

Pre-lesson Activity: Trace Panda
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Start Date: 31st March - 31st December (SGT)

From Illustrator to Procreate
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In this video, we transit to another software Procreate to use their painting functions.

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Visual Arts
  0H 05M

Painting with Procreate
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Start Date: 31st March - 31st December (SGT)

A Visit to A Pet Shop
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In this video, our artists visit a pet show to draw two cats and a dog. Observe Eric Israel as he draws the mascot for this pet shop digitally on the spot.

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  0H 05M

Drawing A Cat with Illustrator
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Eric Israel demonstrates step by step how he used Adobe Illustrator to draw a cat.

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Visual Arts
  0H 05M

Painting the Cat with Procreate
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Eric Israel imports the cat drawn from Illustrator into Procreate to continue with more creative painting.

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  0H 05M

Let’s Try a Different Animal
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Start Date: 31st March - 31st December (SGT)

Drawing A Dog with Illustrator
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Let us take a look at how we can draw a dog on procreate!

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Visual Arts
  0H 05M

Painting the Dog with Illustrator
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Now, let us try to paint the dog using the tonal value as a reference!

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  0H 05M

Tips to Improve the Digital Painting
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What’s left is to complete our dog painting and see how it can be improved. So, let’s watch this video!

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Visual Arts
  0H 05M

Let’s Try One Other Animal
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Start Date: 31st March - 31st December (SGT)

Fun with Augmented Reality
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In this video, Eric Israel shows how easy it is to turn digital drawings alive with augmented reality using https://bridge.artivive.com/.

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  0H 05M

Moving into Augmented Reality
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Start Date: 31st March - 31st December (SGT)

Course Completion Survey
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Start Date: 16th June - 31st December (SGT)

Certificate

Get your certificate when you complete every activity in this course and have it checked by your instructor.