In The Classroom
Are you looking to improve your drawing skills? Interested in what goes into designing characters? Jan thrives on sharing her love for art by teaching you how to improve your artistic skills. See below for a list of upcoming classes and workshops.
“Great! the teacher was really nice and she did awesome crafts and helped us a lot. The crafts were fabulous, cute and pretty. I wish I could do another camp there!”

COMIC DRAWING FOR CHILDREN
with Jan Dolby
Mondays | September 15 – November 10, 2025
4:30 – 5:30 pm | 7 – 12 years
Aurora Cultural Centre
Learn the building blocks of the comic art form, with beginner steps to arrange characters, build settings, and speech bubbles inside a panel. Learn Discover how to select the right tools for each project and explore styles that illustrate and reflect your stories. All materials are provided.
LEARN CARTOONING
with Jan Dolby
Wednesdays | September 17 – October 15, 2025
4:30 – 5:30 pm | 16+
Aurora Cultural Centre
Learn the fundamentals of cartoon drawing. By breaking down different parts of cartoon and anime characters, students will learn how to draw hair, eyes, hands, faces, emotions, perspective, style, noses, body proportion and so much more! It is the perfect class to learn fun basic drawing skills needed to create anime and cartoons. Digital devices are welcome to the class. All materials are provided.
DRAWING CLUB INTERMEDIATE
with Jan Dolby
Wednesdays | September 17 – October 22, 2025
6:30 – 9:00 pm | 16+
Aurora Cultural Centre
for kids
CARTOON CREATIVE DRAWING
with Jan Dolby
Summer 2025
9 am – 12 pm
Ages 7-9
Southampton Arts Centre
A drawing class for kids who love to doodle! Perfect for children who love cartoons and want to learn to draw and think creatively. This class introduces the basics of comic creation. Simple facial expressions, speech bubbles, understanding characters, storytelling, drawing one and two panel comics and finally their own mini comic book creation! Drawing exercises are interactive, hands-on and open-ended, allowing each student to use their own imagination to express themselves artistically.
for kids
SAFARI ANIMAL ZOO
with Jan Dolby
Summer 2025
9 am – 12 pm
Ages 7-9
Southampton Arts Centre
An animal art class for kids who love tigers, elephants, monkeys, lions and rhinos! Perfect for children who love to create with colours, who want to learn to draw and think creatively. This class will create colourful and textured masks, collages, paintings and drawings. Full of fun and adventure to the Safari!
