Art Preparation Course

Discover the transformative power of art with our online Art Preparation Course. Unlock your creative potential, explore various mediums, and develop essential skills through expert guidance and engaging assignments.

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Curriculum

The course lessons are chosen to support your understanding of the image building theory and the basic drawing and painting tools and methods. After the course you have a better understanding of how to start and carry a creative process and how you get to the result you desire.

1. Pencil drawing

A fundamental tool to express your creativity. Pencils are familiar to everybody. In this lesson you will learn to use pencils effectively and make your drawings stand out with contrast, texture and rich values.

2. Light & Shadow

Light and shadow bring three dimensional objects into life. Learn how to illustrate light and shadow in your images and how to enhance the atmosphere or intensity of your image with contrast and value decisions.

3. Gouache & Acrylics

Acrylic and/or gouache paints are easiest painting medium for any visual task. The opaque and quick drying paints allow versatile painting order and easy corrections. Learn the best ways to use these paints for different purposes.

4. Composition

Composition is in the core of visual communication. How to place the elements in your design/presentation so that your idea is in the focus and the visual choices in the image support that focus. This lesson will help you understand and choose the best methods for different compositional purposes.

5. Color pencil drawing

Learn how to use colored pencils professionally. Mixing colors and layering the strokes is the secret to rich and vibrant illustrations. This lesson will teach you how to use the myriad colors in your palette with logic from color theory in order to create harmonic, but interesting images.

6. Color

Color choices set the mood of your image. This lesson will guide you to the world of color and show you how to choose the colors to fit the mood and idea of your image.

7. Marker Ink

Quick & professional sketching & designing tool for any aspiring designer. The vast selection of colors may feel daunting. This lesson helps you to start with the markers by showing some easy methods to create powerful spaces and objects.

8. Perspective

A tool to create the illusion of three dimensional space on two-dimensional paper. This lesson will help you understand how to use perspective in different situations in order to bring the spatiality in your pictures to focus.

9. Watercolor

Watercolors are a quick medium to produce delicate, but artistically strong and unique artworks. Learn the best painting order and tips to use watercolors for your benefit in the creative process.

10. Human shape

Correctly drawn human shape adds credibility to your pictures. Human figures show the scale and use of the spaces and functions in your images. Learn how to easily add perfectly proportioned human figures in your drawings and images.

Art Preparation Course

This is an independent course where you study at your own pace with personal tutoring meetings and support of our teacher.

850 €

Art Preparation Course

850 €

Experiences

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Attending the course was the best decision I ever made. I got more self-confident and learned a lot about myself. If you want a solid base for both the entrance exams and your future studies, I recommend that you sign up. I got into every school I applied to.

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★★★★★ 5/5

Goals

Is this course for me?

The Art Preparation course focuses on the most common drawing and painting techniques and image building theories. Mastering the techniques provides you with an invaluable edge, both in the application process for your next degree, but also in your future creative development. The course is fully schedule free, allowing you to study at your own pace but with our professional teacher’s support and feedback. If you are looking for an Art Foundation -type of course online, this prep course is for you!

Course content

The course consists of 10 online lesson packages, which you can go through in your own schedule. One lesson package consists of a video lecture and the lecture materials, some quick tasks to ease you into the lesson subject and two homework assignments where you can apply and practice the new skills you have learned from the lecture. We usually recommend minimum of 6-9 hours for each lesson, but of course you can use more time for the homework and the ideation process. The more you practice, the better you will become! The course is the most effective if you commit to the lessons and especially the homework projects, as the creative skills don’t really develop unless you actually do the creative work.

After the course you have learned to use different methods to observe the world and transform your observation into an insightful and technically competent picture. You will get on-point practice and feedback in for example: pencil & marker drawing, sketching, colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic & gouache painting, composition, color choices, perspective and human anatomy.

Why us?

As we are located in Finland and have guided our students to both Finnish and European creative degree programs for over a decade, we have a good understanding of the qualities and requirements the programs are looking for in their potential students. In the course you will attain skills and capabilities to apply to any undergraduate Art degree in the world.

Join this high demand course to make sure you are within the top candidates!

Course Teacher

Eeva Jokinen

I’m a passionate craft-oriented designer and teacher. My first degree was in Ceramics and I currently run my own company where I make small scale ceramic production and unique artworks.

For my whole artistic career I have also been teaching both in private and University positions. This woke up my interest in pedagogy and learning theories and I graduated from my second MA degree of Art Education in 2020.

My interest in the design field is wide. I teach both research methods and ceramic practices in Aalto University as a part time teacher and art techniques and content creation methods in Scandinavian Design School. I’m interested in how we learn and how to teach creative skills which are very individual and based on practice and materials.

My teaching philosophy is based on social-constructional methods, where the teacher is guiding the students towards their goals as a companion and provider, facilitating the learning which happens in each individual learner in their own unique way. I believe reflection and critical thinking of one’s work is the key to personal development and success.

About Eeva

Master of Arts (MA) in Ceramics and Glass Design

Master of Arts (MA) in Art EducationTeacher of art and design for 20 years
Preparatory course teacher for 7 years
Owner of Eeva Jokinen Ceramics design company
A passionate and well liked Scandinavian Design School teacher, who is dedicated in training you to reach the study place of your dreams!

For the Parents

The role of the parent is many time surprisingly significant when preparing for admission exam for university. Here are some tips for you, if you are a parent or the one supporting the applicant.

The role of the parents in the application process

As parents we want our children to succeed. However, the creative journey is very personal and stepping in too much may feel overstepping. How to be supportive in the right way?

Your endorsement as a parent is essential for the applicant, as your approval of their career choice gives them a psychological leave to fully explore their creativity and put all their energy to the application process.

A parental perspective is important especially in practical matters: You can help search for the best programs and discuss their benefits and possible future careers. Finding the right course to help them in the application process is a great way to show your support.

Supporting creative work

To support the creative work, focus your attention on the process, not only the end result. Curiosity and creativity are meant to lead to uncertain results that cannot be determined beforehand. Supporting the process communicates understanding of the creative journey and motivates your young to explore more.

The work of the designer always happens before the final product/work is finished. That includes trials and errors, but also insights and feelings of flow. Encouraging them to be resilient and commit to the process of improving their work, even if it feels hard, will prepare them for actual work in the creative field.

Sometimes there is no time to wait for inspiration, but just to do the work that is given to you. In our courses we will take part in that encouragement process, adding our professional insights and educational skills into the projects and feedback we give to our students.

Competition is the main concern

There are several aspects the parents usually are concerned about:
the competitive nature of the application process is worrisome.

It is very hard to get in, especially to the top ranking schools. How will your child take the possible rejection? How motivated are they to try again if they are rejected?
Discuss the possibility with your child. It is always a good idea to apply to several different schools, perhaps with slightly different rankings, especially if a gap year is not an option. You should always reach high, but also keep your head cool and add some easier options as well.

The method of selection varies between countries but also between schools. You either apply with a portfolio or through an entrance exam process. In some schools you need both a portfolio that includes some pre-assignment projects. If you don’t get accepted, in most countries there are foundation years/different level degrees or other lower education schools/courses to improve your skills and apply again next year. In Finland it typically takes 2-3 tries to learn how to apply and get the necessary skills. During each gap year these students have developed their skills in other courses, such as ours. Of course in every year many students also get in on their first try. Usually those students have a strong background on creative hobbies.

The motivation to reapply proves your career choice is legitimate. Skills can always be improved, will and determination must rise from within. The schools are looking for creative potential, curiosity and courage. Our courses focus on bringing those qualities out of our students and show them in their projects and portfolios.

Will they find employment in the uncertain creative field?

The applicants are rarely aware of all the possible career paths the creative fields may offer. An artist or a designer is the most obvious one and directly related to their current abilities and desires.There is a vast array of other possibilities that may open for them with a creative degree.

In recent studies it has been proven that creative industries have been growing twice as fast between 2013 and 2019 than the rate of the European economy as a whole.
Similar statistics are reported around the world. Creative economy has more and more jobs and the modern digitalized society is more in need of creative professionals than ever before.

Also, due the very nature of creativity, tolerating uncertainty in the creative process makes creative professionals especially equipped to navigate the challenges in our modern societies. Many universities also support interdisciplinary degrees, where the benefits of two or more disciplines steer you into a unique individual career path.

Why Scandinavian Design School?

Our teaching method is focused on three things:

Professionally curated curriculum that focuses on the skills needed in the application process
Project assignments that force you to stretch your creative thinking and creativity to a new level.
Feedback given by the professional teachers. Our teachers have a long experience in evaluating the projects and portfolios from the application process perspective. The key is in communication, our comments are always kind, but direct in their assessment.

The actual learning happens in the relation of these three. So the course does require commitment and resilience in working on the assignments. Just watching the videos won’t provide any feedback. In working with the assignments the learning changes from information to knowledge, and when repeated, into a skill.

In most art courses in this price range you don’t get as much personal communication with the teacher. In the evaluation we try to see the motives and and reasons in each project and focus our reviews to both the great parts, but also the challenges. The feedback always has some insights on how the work could be made more interesting and the ideas communicated more clearly.

850 €

Begin your creative journey!

Art Preparation Course

We have 10+ years of experience with proven results

Study at your own pace

Get feedback

Reach your goals

Curriculum

The course lessons are chosen to support your understanding of the image building theory and the basic drawing and painting tools and methods. After the course you have a better understanding of how to start and carry a creative process and how you get to the result you desire.

1. Pencil drawing

2. Light & Shadow

3. Gouache & Acrylics

4. Composition

5. Color pencil drawing

6. Color

7. Marker Ink

8. Perspective

9. Watercolor

10. Human shape

Art Preparation Course

This is an independent course where you study at your own pace with personal tutoring meetings and support of our teacher.

850 €

Art Preparation Course

850 €

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