Discover the Top 20 Beginner Illustration Courses on Domestika 2025, a handpicked selection of the best classes designed to elevate your illustration skills. These courses are led by industry experts who share their unique techniques and insights, covering a wide range of styles such as digital art, watercolor, character design, editorial illustration, and more. Whether you’re a beginner looking to master the basics or an experienced artist aiming to refine your craft, these courses provide step-by-step guidance, hands-on projects, and professional feedback to help you grow. With a focus on creativity, storytelling, and technical skills, you’ll gain the tools needed to create captivating illustrations that stand out.
What makes this collection exceptional is its diversity and accessibility, catering to artists of all levels and interests. From whimsical children’s book illustrations to sleek modern designs for branding, these courses explore a variety of genres and mediums. Domestika’s interactive platform fosters a collaborative learning environment, allowing you to connect with fellow creators and expand your artistic horizons. If you’re ready to take your illustration skills to new heights in 2025, these courses are your ultimate resource for mastering the art of visual storytelling and creating impactful artwork.

1. Children’s Book Illustration: A story in a moment
Learn how to create children’s book illustrations that serve the narrative whilst telling its own tale. WATCH TRAILER COUPON
2. Introduction to Design of Characters for Animation and Video Games
Learn a simple approach to drawing memorable characters WATCH TRAILER COUPON
3. Expressive Watercolor Painting: Create Compelling Illustrations
Learn watercolor techniques to capture the mood and atmosphere of a scene in both black and white and in color WATCH TRAILER COUPON
4. Illustrating and Writing a Children’s Book
Discover the world of picturebooks and learn how to tell stories with text and images WATCH TRAILER COUPON
5. Guided Project: Animal Characters to Tell Stories
Create expressive animal characters using sketching, colored pencils, watercolors for storytelling and children’s book illustration WATCH TRAILER COUPON
6. Introduction to Digital Painting
Learn digital painting from scratch by learning how to capture lighting, color, and volume with brushes in Photoshop WATCH TRAILER COUPON
7. Artist’s Notebook: Explore Illustration Techniques
Spark your imagination and transform the experience of drawing into a source of inspiration and learning WATCH TRAILER COUPON
8. Introduction to Procreate
Take your illustration studio with you wherever you go with the leading drawing app for iPad WATCH TRAILER COUPON
9. Botanical Watercolor Sketchbook
Explore and interpret the natural world by combining watercolor with graphite pencil and fineliners WATCH TRAILER COUPON
10. Fundamentals of Figure Drawing with Charcoal
Learn how to draw the human figure using charcoal by exploring sketching techniques to create a detailed, full-length portrait WATCH TRAILER COUPON
11. Realistic Portrait with Graphite Pencil
Learn the basics and technique to create realistic anatomical drawings WATCH TRAILER COUPON
12. The Art of Manga: Drawing Unique Characters
Learn how to create a manga character from scratch and reach your visual storytelling potential by exploring original drawing techniques WATCH TRAILER COUPON
13. Pet Portraits in Colored Pencils
Learn the techniques you need to create stunning pet portraits with colored pencils. WATCH TRAILER COUPON
14. Kawaii-Style Story Illustration
Learn to draw characters by hand in the Japanese style of kawaii and digitize them in Procreate WATCH TRAILER COUPON
15. Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail
Create artwork filled with intricate ideas while maintaining balance and harmony WATCH TRAILER COUPON
16. Realistic Botanical Watercolor Drawing
Learn a drawing method based on curiosity and careful observation to create botanical watercolor illustrations WATCH TRAILER COUPON
17. Experimental Portraiture with Ink, Tea and Alcohol
Discover how to paint dynamic portraits with a variety of methods and materials as you explore your creative flow and embrace the element of surprise WATCH TRAILER COUPON
18. Contemporary Printmaking with Linoleum
Discover the versatility of linocut art and learn to create unique prints by carving and layering designs WATCH TRAILER COUPON
19. Blackwork Tattoo Techniques with Fine Lines
Combine lines and dots to achieve texture and volume in any design, and depict emotions with just black ink© Mazvtier
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20. Specialization in Creative Writing and Children’s Illustration
Write captivating children’s books by exploring narrative techniques and age-appropriate language for young readers.© Specialization by multiple teachers
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21. Realistic Portrait with Coloured Pencils
Learn to illustrate by mastering volume, light, and shadows using a photograph WATCH TRAILER COUPON
22. Digital Illustration: Create Manga Characters
Learn how to use digital tools to bring your own detailed and expressive manga heroes to life WATCH TRAILER COUPON
23. Drawing from Observation for Beginners
Learn different techniques to overcome the blank page and create a sketchbook filled with light, volume, and detail WATCH TRAILER COUPON
24. Business Strategy for Creatives: How to Sell Your Art Online
Discover how to share, market, and sell your artwork across multiple online marketplaces and social media platforms. WATCH TRAILER COUPON
25. Illustrating Fantastical Animals with Procreate
Imagine fantastical characters and turn them into captivating illustrations by exploring poses, props, color, and lighting in Procreate WATCH TRAILER COUPON
26. Dynamic Figure Drawing
Learn how to capture the shape and movement of the human body WATCH TRAILER COUPON
27. Color Theory: How to Apply It to Your Images
Learn how to master color and raise the visual quality of your illustrations WATCH TRAILER COUPON
28. Artistic Perspective: Interior Spaces from Your Point of View
Learn to draw architectural spaces from your own perspective by exploring the classical rules of vanishing points WATCH TRAILER COUPON
29. Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach
Slow down and connect with nature by learning how to illustrate plants and flowers using watercolors© Lapin
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30. Creative Drawing Specialization: From Fundamentals to Artistic Expression
Learn creative drawing techniques, unlock your creativity, explore colors and textures, develop artistic confidence.© Specialization by multiple teachers
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