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.

Opals, diamonds, sapphires, amber, pearls. Each gemstone has its own rules for light, color, and transparency, and Lisa breaks every one of them down. This is the most comprehensive colored pencil gemstone course available, covering everything from the soft iridescence of opals to the hard sparkle of faceted diamonds.

You will work through four full modules plus bonus content, building from organic stones like amber and pearls through cabochon cuts, faceted sparkle gems, and finally diamonds. Each module includes color charts, homework, and practice pages.

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.

Faces are the most requested and most intimidating subject in drawing. This course removes the mystery by breaking portraits down into geometry, angles, and shading steps you can follow. Lisa starts with universal face geometry and frontal view templates, moves through profile and angled views, and finishes with realistic grey-scale shading from a reference image.

Each module includes guided sketching exercises and homework with printable templates. The bonus content adds a live lesson recording covering charcoal techniques and an 11-part older face study in charcoal.

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.

Three different light effects, three complete projects. Lisa teaches you how to create the illusion of glowing light on paper using colored pencils, starting with delicate twinkle lights, moving through soft bokeh backgrounds, and finishing with vibrant neon glow. Each project builds on specific layering and blending techniques that make light appear to radiate from within your drawing.

You will learn why toned paper matters, how to use white charcoal as a foundation layer, and the color sequencing that creates convincing glow effects at any intensity.

Turn your original artwork into a printable coloring page, from first sketch to finished file ready for print or Etsy. Lisa walks you through every step: choosing a subject, composing the page, sketching characters and elements, inking clean outlines, and digitizing your work for professional-quality output.

This course includes homework assignments with student reviews at every stage, so you get real feedback on your progress. By the end, you will have a completed coloring page ready to sell or share.

No water needed. Lisa teaches you how to achieve the soft, flowing look of watercolor painting using only colored pencils. Starting with a Zen temple scene, you will learn the shading strategies, gradient transitions, layering techniques, and pooling effects that create a convincing watercolor illusion. Then you will apply those techniques to flowing robes, skin tone, and lighting.

Three modules build from background technique through fabric and figure, finishing with a complete illustration that looks like it was painted with a brush.

Skulls, undead skin tones, Day of the Dead cats, blood red roses, gothic jewelry, and glitter effects. This course is a single deep-dive project in gothic-themed coloring, covering mixed media layering, ink line work, and dark color palettes. Lisa walks you through every element of a complex Halloween illustration from start to finish.

You will learn how to achieve the skull look, work with appropriately undead skin tones, add glitter effects, and push contrast with black. The course finishes with an overview of alternative color palettes so you can apply these techniques to your own gothic designs.

Recreate the luminous look of stained glass using colored pencils. Lisa takes you through every element: the translucent glass base, detailed textures, realistic fabric, skin tone, and red hair. Each module focuses on a different material within a single stained glass-inspired illustration, so you learn how to render multiple surfaces that all work together.

Five modules build to a completed project, teaching you color palette selection, white primer technique, shading, blending, and how to make flat colored pencil work look like light is passing through it.

Two ornate Venetian masks, dozens of textures. This course is a deep study in rendering different materials side by side: golden fabric, brown velvet, silver trim, brass bells, red enamel, porcelain, gold leaf, cracked porcelain, pink satin, blue velvet, shimmery trim, and silk ribbons. Each texture gets its own focused lesson, and they all come together in two elaborate mask illustrations.

If you want to level up your ability to make colored pencil drawings look like they contain real materials, this is the course that will get you there.

Three undead characters, three completely different skin techniques. Lisa teaches you how to color a ghostly white ghost bride, a dramatic purple-and-red Japanese demon girl, and a sickly green-skinned creature. Each project uses a unique approach to building unnatural skin tones that still look convincing and dimensional.

You will learn the bruise effect, deathly pale layering, blood splatter techniques, white charcoal vs white pencil priming, and how to use unexpected colors like purple and sunshine yellow to create skin that looks otherworldly.

One ghost, one complete follow-along project. Lisa takes you step by step through creating a glowing ghost illustration, from white charcoal priming through detailed lace work, organic skin tones, and the final glamour glow. This is a focused, single-project course that teaches you how to build glow effects through contrast and layering.

Every lesson builds directly on the previous one, so you can color alongside Lisa in real time and finish with a complete piece.

An ice queen illustration from start to finish. This course teaches you to render crystals, icy skin tones, glossy snowflakes, glitter effects, and sparkling details using a cool winter color palette. Lisa walks you through each stage: building a crystal crown, creating convincing cold skin with the sfumato effect, adding sparkle and shine, and finishing with glitter on skin, hair, and crystals.

Four focused modules take you from paper and palette selection to a completed illustration with real depth and shimmer.

A romantic, vintage-styled portrait from start to finish. This course covers pale skin tones, painterly hair, quick portrait drawing, vintage photo effects, watercolor-style roses, shiny silk fabric, and bringing it all together into a cohesive piece. Lisa teaches mixed media techniques that give colored pencil work the look of an old photograph brought to life.

Eight modules take you through every element of the illustration, from setting the mood with paper and style choices to the final vintage artifacts and subject separation that make the finished piece feel like a timeless work of art.

A single fantasy scene from white primer to moon glow. Lisa walks you through coloring a cherry tree house dreamscape, covering wood effects, sunshine lighting, red roofs, cherry blossom pink, canopy shadows and highlights, and a glowing moon. You will also learn how to use brush markers for speed alongside colored pencils.

This is a focused, follow-along project that teaches you how to build atmosphere and mood into a fantasy illustration.

A short, meditative coloring course that combines art with mindfulness. Lisa guides you through a series of calming projects including mandalas, crystals, delicate flowers, glass potions, and golden details. Each lesson is designed to be relaxing and centering while still teaching real colored pencil technique.

This is a great entry point if you want to pick up colored pencils without pressure, or a nice reset between more intensive courses.

Colored pencils can produce results that look like paintings. This course teaches you how. Lisa walks you through a complete portrait, starting with paper and primer, building an underpainting, layering greyscale and color, blending warm and cool tones, and finishing with sunlight color, highlights, and high contrast. Every step is designed to produce a painterly result rather than a typical colored pencil look.

You will learn to work with references, create believable illusions of depth, and render red hair and skin with rich, layered color.

Crystals are all about light, transparency, and sharp facets. This course starts with individual crystal practice on both white and toned paper, then moves into a large crystal cluster project where you bring everything together. Lisa covers high contrast crystals, pale crystals, vibrant crystals, and colorful crystals, then teaches you priming, color layering, blending, glossy effects, and glimmer.

The course includes crystal color charts and a final project where you complete a full crystal cluster illustration.

Before you can draw what you see, you need a hand that does what you tell it. This course builds the muscle memory, pencil control, and observation skills that make everything else possible. You will learn to calibrate your strokes, sketch with confidence, and capture a likeness from a reference photo.

By the end, you will have completed five full portrait drawings and built habits that carry into every course that follows.