Handmade Holiday Cards | Ep. 6 Cartoon Family Portraits

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Originally Aired November 22nd, 2024


Depict Your Family In A Fun, Cartoon Portrait

In the final episode of the Handmade Holiday Cards series, create whimsical cartoon family portraits that add a personal touch to holiday greetings. This fun and engaging project guides you through the process of sketching and inking lively cartoon representations of family members. Learn techniques for capturing personality and likenesses in a playful style, and make one-of-a-kind cards that truly reflect your loved ones. Let your imagination run wild as you celebrate your family in a unique way!

What You Will Learn:

  • How to sketch and ink cartoon representations of people
  • How to capture personality and likeness in caricatures

Supplies You’ll Need:

  • Card stock in desired color (Cut to 7”x10”, folded to 5”x7” (A7 size card))
  • Adhesive of choice (Glue stick, tape runner, double-sided tape)
  • Bone folder
  • A7 envelopes in desired color
  • Scissors
  • Heavy drawing paper (Bristol, watercolor paper, mixed media paper, etc)
  • Opt. Watercolor paints or markers
  • Black drawing pen (or brush pen)
  • Pencil
  • Eraser
  • Washi tape for securing your work
  • Opt. Lightboard for tracing

Class Details:

  • Originally Aired November 22nd, 2024
  • Technique Demonstration
  • Live Class Replay

Course Level: All Skill Levels
Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minute

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Lifetime Access To The Series With A Class Pass
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🎫 Class Pass includes:

  • Live Class Access
  • Lifetime Access To Class Replay

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Meet Your Instructor:

Shelby is the co-founder of Foxsy and the creator at Little Coffee Fox. She is a professional watercolorist, letterer, and artist with a passion for teaching others to reintroduce creativity back into their lives. Shelby lives in Chicago, IL with her husband Jon and her pets Summer, Basil, and Korra.

Shelby Abrahamsen

Foxsy, Co-Founder
Blogger at LittleCoffeeFox.com

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Marquita
Posted 3 weeks ago
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Fantastic run-through of simple ways to capture personality with shapes and expressions. Watching the process live really helped with some problems I usually have when trying caricatures.

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Kolina Winburn
Posted 3 weeks ago
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This was my favorite card making class! I loved learning the basics of cartooning and seeing all of Shelby’s work really helped me realize that great cartoons can have simple drawing

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Sharon Parry
Posted 3 weeks ago
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Great informative presentation. Shelby is so warm and fun!

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lhigham
Posted 3 weeks ago
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It was a very Fun Class I learned how to Draw Comics of my Family

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Lawanna Lawrence Bean
Posted 3 weeks ago
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This class was inspiring and fun! Totally put me in the Holiday mood!

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