The Fastest Path to Art You’re Proud Of.

Learn the basic geometry that all artists use to draw eyes, and master the skill of freehand drawing various expressions and personalities.

This course is the next step for anyone who already knows their way around colored pencils and wants to push into pro territory. In the lessons to come you’ll learn what I call fantasy realism: real characters, real settings, real elements, colored and lit in ways that bend reality toward something dreamlike. We’ll build one stunning, gallery-worthy project together from start to finish, a composition I designed and painted myself inspired by Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, where every choice in color, light, and expression tells a story. You’ll master advanced layering and blending that makes color glow from inside the paper, mix brand new colors straight from your pencils, place light and shadow with total intention to carry emotion, and pull off the technique I’ve never taught anywhere before: building pale skin from red and blue without a single skin tone pencil. You’ll also learn to plan like an artist, designing ambitious compositions from scratch and choosing a color story to match the mood you’re chasing. By the end you’ll have a piece worthy of your wall and your feed, the advanced techniques real artists use every day and the skill to make a picture say something, as well as the skill to make your own compositions. Ready to tell a story nobody’s ever seen?

Glowing fireflies, luminous potions, flickering lanterns, radiant fairies. These fantasy glow effects look like magic on paper, and Lisa shows you exactly how to create them with colored pencils. You will master white primer techniques, dark background layering, and the color tricks that make light appear to radiate from within your drawings.

Four complete projects take you from bioluminescent creatures through glowing potions and candlelit lanterns to a fully rendered glowing fairy. Each builds on the last, adding new techniques for controlling light, contrast, and atmosphere.

Five skin tones, five complete color systems. Lisa walks you through cream, peaches, caramel, toffee, and espresso from first pencil to final detail, teaching you how to identify undertones, layer pigments, and build realistic depth for every complexion. Each module includes its own color chart and homework.

You will learn which pencil brands and colors work best for each tone, how to handle shadows and makeup, and how to build your own reusable color palettes. The bonus ivory skin module adds a sixth tone for even more range.

Everything starts here. This course builds the foundation that every other drawing skill depends on. Lisa covers tools, freehand technique, basic shapes, the grid method, freehand drawing from reference, and creating original art from collage. Each module builds on the last, and every lesson has a hands-on exercise.

You will go from understanding your tools to producing original compositions with consistent lighting and shading. The bonus content includes a 13-part labyrinth ballroom drawing and a 9-part Jimi Hendrix charcoal portrait.

Gold, silver, copper, bronze, pewter, iron, rust. Each metal has a distinct color signature and texture, and Lisa teaches you how to replicate all of them with colored pencils. This course goes deep, covering not just the colors of metal but the textures that make them convincing: smooth, scratched, tarnished, riveted, and rusted.

You will progress from mastering individual metallic colors through texture studies to rendering complete metallic objects like a silver apple, gold ribbon, and bronze medallion. Every module includes homework and practice assignments.

This is the complete colored pencil foundation course. Lisa covers everything from calibrating your pencils and understanding color terms to advanced shading techniques, color combos, mood, light and shadow, and a guided final project. If you are picking up colored pencils for the first time or want to fill in the gaps in your self-taught technique, this is where to start.

Each module includes practice pages and exercises. The final project brings everything together with a complete turtle rendering from light source setup to finished piece. Bonus content includes a 12-part Heart of the Ocean portrait and an 11-part realistic red rose.

From house cats to lions, this course covers everything you need to draw realistic felines. Lisa starts with anatomy and movement, teaching you to sketch cats in graphite, charcoal, and colored pencils. You will learn facial geometry for both domestic and wild cats, then move into rendering different fur types before tackling big cats like ocelots, snow leopards, and lions.

The final project brings it all together with a hyper-realistic tiger rendered in mixed media. Each module includes homework, guided practice, and drawing assignments.