Cartooning Workshop

Learn how to bring your scribbles alive and draw a cartoon!



2 hours Class size 1 to 8 guests    

  $65 ($35 per class surcharge applies for private classes) (Afterpay available)

Learn how to make your scribbles come alive with cartoonist Ken Allen from the Junkadelic Arts Collective!
In this three-hour class, which is perfect for beginners, we'll start off with pencilling where you will learn all the tricks and techniques to create cartoon faces. This includes male, female, old, young, the whole gamut of emotions and everything in between! Hair and ears will be made easy plus, we'll uncover the secret to making eyes come alive.
Next, we will learn how to build up the whole body, hands and feet, using simple shapes. Then you will put your cartoons in dynamic action poses!
Finally, inking. You will be amazed at how many different shading techniques there are, all giving a different texture to the drawing.
Once you're finished, you will have all the tools necessary to create your own cartoon action characters!
What you'll get
Pencils, paper, Artline pens and erasers will be provided for the session. You will also take home your cartoon drawings.
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Knowledge required
Suitable for beginners but also great if you have some experience, as Ken will push the boundaries of what you can do further!
What to bring
Just yourself! Everything else is provided.
Suitable for

This class is great for individuals and couples as well as for a date idea, team building activity, Christmas party, birthday or hens party.

Suitable for adults, and kids (minimum 8 years old).

Adult accompaniment is not required.

This experience would also be a unique gift for her, gift for mum, Xmas gift or gift for couples.

Location

Your teacher can travel within 30 kms of East Victoria Park, to a venue of your choice.

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  • 5/5 from Benjamin King, attended Apr 2026: This was a really fun session, I highly recommend. The teacher ran through different drawing techniques - showing different emotions, drawing bodies in the correct ratio, shading options. He also showed us different ways to add our own flare to the drawings. Thank you!
  • 5/5 from Cathy Ellingsen, attended Nov 2024: I bought this private class for my brother for his birthday. My brother was so happy with the teaching style, and the quality of the drawings he was able to do on his first lesson. Definitely, highly recommend this workshop.
  • 5/5 from Vera Riley, attended Sep 2024: Thank you Ken! Thank you for you patience, thank you for the building blocks of cartooning, and thank for for inspiring me!
  • 5/5 from Ryan Rigg, attended Jan 2024: Went very well. Teacher provides knowledge within framework. Easy learning. I had a lot of fun.
  • 5/5 from Bridie Hutton, attended Oct 2023: So much fun spending a couple of hours being creative and learning new skills that can be transferred to other types of creative work. Thanks so much for your time and sharing so much knowledge!
  • 5/5 from Julie Levin, attended Jan 2023: Such fun with my son. We learned some awesome techniques. A great activity for us to do together.
  • 5/5 from Tracey Yuen, attended Sep 2022: I had a great time and learned so much. Recommend anyone to give it a go.
  • 4/5 from Paul Benness, attended Jul 2022: Ken is a great cartoonist and an easy guy to get along with. I picked up some great tricks & tips to help me develop my skills.
  • 5/5 from Anika Wroblewski, attended Jan 2022: We opted for a 1:1 at home session. Ken was punctual, very fun, knowledgeable, patient and kind. He was good at identifying my daughter's current skill and working from there to fill in the gaps in her knowledge. The materials used were suited to the session, topics covered matched her areas of interest, and it was a nice surprise that the art he created himself as he demonstrated were ours to keep.
  • 5/5 from Casper Wood, attended Oct 2021: We had a one-on-one session with my 10-year-old and it was great. Ken was passionate about drawing and kept my son engrossed for the whole time. We had the session at our home which was very convenient. This class would suit all ages, anyone with an interest in drawing, wanting to learn a range of techniques that can be used as you develop your own style.
  • 5/5 from Mischa Taylor, attended Jul 2021: My Son and I were so enthralled that we hardly noticed the time go by. This was a great workshop, all the materials were provided. We learnt how to draw cartoon faces, different techniques of structuring characters and shading. We both highly recommend experiencing this class.
  • 5/5 from Rochelle McIntosh, attended Jul 2021: A teacher with exceptional skill and boundless patience brings hope and some practical techniques to those of us with less natural talent. Thank you, it was a rewarding lesson.
  • 5/5 from Fay Enston, attended Jul 2021: Ken was very nice and encouraging and it was good having him come to our place, and bringing all the materials. We learned how to draw the basic layout of the human body and faces with emotions. We also learned how to do inking, crosshatching, and seven other techniques that we had never done before. We really loved the class and hope to do another one soon. Thank you from Alice and Ruth.
  • 4/5 from Robyn Ricmond, attended Apr 2021: Teacher was great - patient and knowledgeable with two ten year olds to teach. It was great that he came to us; he brought all the necessary equipment and the two 10 year olds really enjoyed it (they reviewed it as good - it sounded great to me). I thought it was good value for money because the cost was equivalent to them doing the same sort of workshop in a group class. Would definitely book again.
  • 5/5 from Natasha d'Souza, attended Dec 2020: Loved the class and the convenience of the teacher attending our home to teach us. We learnt lots about expressions and emotions in drawing and the family had a great time.
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Junkadelic Art Collective
Junkadelic Art Collective

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Through the Junkadelic Arts Collective, we are extremely passionate about bringing art, music and creative skill-building to all corners of Australia, with residences at the Salvage Katherine Festival of Junk Arts (NT, 2014), and Gascoyne in May Festival (WA, 2013) also highlights. Notable workshops include Kununurra NAIDOC Week (2018), Yalgoo Emu Cup (2013, 2015-17, 2019), and Kalamunda's Zig Zag Festival (2015-16, 2018, 2019).
The Junkadelic Brass Band was founded in 2002, and was simply known as Junkadelic; a junk percussion group that performed at environmental street actions and social justice events, as well as other activist causes. The group's first gig was the World Environment Day in Forrest Place (Perth CBD) in 2002.
Junkadelic added a horn section in 2010 to become the stage-based funk band, the Junkadelic Brass Band, as it's known as today.
In addition to music workshops, we also teach people how to make sculptures using junk.
Finally - we also provide cartooning workshops.

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