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Drawing for Kids – Manga Portrait (Term 2)

Upcoming courses

Location: Sydney Language Solutions

Cost:

$242 incl. GST (4-week course)

$352 incl. GST (8-week course)

Duration: 4 weeks x 1 hour 30 minutes [6 hours]

Upcoming class: 11 January 2025

Upcoming class: 08 February 2025

Class Size: 6-12 students

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by Danny Vuon 10 April 2022in Drawing for kids, Social Painting Workshop

Course description

What is this class for?

No required experience or knowledge is needed to join this class,
Children with an interest in drawing Manga, like Manga, and maybe talking about Manga.
Children learn to to draw basic shapes and ‘objects’ in a space.
This class will help kids to develop drawing skills, confidence and an eye for detail.

What’s special with drawing classes at SLS?

Our class is always fun and interactive
We focus on the pace and taste of each kid
We help him develop interest in art
Our teachers are young and love children
Children are allowed to bring their artworks home
CBD location with small size class of only 6 children per class.
Discount for sibling, cousins or if studying another language course with us.

What equipment do you need to bring to class?

Paper or sketchbook
Pens and pencils
Colour pens
Eraser and sharpener
(any Pokémon cards and books you want to share. This is optional and not necessary)

Training content

Each week we draw and colour different types of Manga.
We usually draw a 2 creatures per session, perhaps working through the evolution of each Manga character listed.
Learn how to draw basic shapes so we can turn them into characters
Learn how to add animation characteristics to characters
Learn how to color fill a character smoothly, and with visual texture

Upcoming courses for TERM 2

Time: Thursday 09 May 04:30 pm-06:00 pm| Saturday 11 May 11:00 am-12:30 pm
Duration: 8 weeks x 1.5 hours [Parents can choose to learn 4 weeks or 8 weeks]
Fee: $352 incl. GST [ if you choose to learn 8 weeks]
Fee: $242 incl. GST [ if you choose to learn 4 weeks]

ENROLL NOW:https://sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au/enrol-online/course-enrolment-form/

Once you’re on the form, please select ‘Social Painting Workshop’ and choose your desired class!

SPECIAL:

Join both language and drawing class and get 20% OFF
Join two weeks before starting date and receive 10% EARLY BIRD
All students of Drawing class can join any trial language class at SLS for free. Please email enquiries@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au to book your Free Trial Class

Terms and Condition:

Once the course is confirmed, no refund of course fee will be issued. If you can’t attend after the course starts, we can offer credit for you to use in the next term if we receive the request within 3 weeks from the class starting date.

Any request to refund for the course must be made 7 working days before course starts and occurs $50 admin fee
Each class needs at least 4 students to confirm. We cannot always control the number of participants, so if the course does not have enough students to confirm, we either cancel the course and issue full refund, or delay the course to 2 weeks to get more enrolment or operate the course as small group tutor with less hours.
If you are absent for any reason, we cannot offer make-up class. Any arrangement for make-up class needs to be done before the course starts

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Teacher: Mizuki Kayanuma

I am currently in the Bachelor of Arts (Major in Japanese & Minor in Chinese) with Bachelor of Education (Secondary) at Macquarie University. I have been teaching HSC format Japanese continuous, extension, and heritage level as well as a university student who has taken Japanese as their major in a private tutor. I will try my best to listen to individual students' feedback and point outs about my classes, I want to create the most joyful class with all the students.

Teacher: Helen Bui

Helen is a self taught artist of 8 years. She is a first year university student at UTS studying Business and Science in Information Technology.

Helen has experience in mentoring students during her high school years through both peer support and a mentor/mentee program. With communication skills, she has an understanding of how to create a fun, supportive, and engaging learning environment.

She is knowledgeable in her experience with art having explored both traditional and digital mediums. She is capable of utilising different mediums in her art and encourages students to do the same.

Teacher: Abbie Barr

Abbie Barr loves to share her passion for art and has enjoyed being a mentor in school programs to help younger children better engage with learning. She studies a Bachelor of Visual Communication and is learning to design the future. She is interested in cartooning and character creation, as well as making fantasy landscapes. She believes it’s important to draw your own story through your art, and that creative thinking is the key to leading an exciting life.

Student Testimonials

“Lots of dialogue practice, engaging, useful for when going to Japan.” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, January 2020 Intake)

“Great preparation. Put lessons in real life context. The ability to listen to Japanese songs or shows with interest.” (Lourdes, Japanese Beg 1 Student, January 2020 Intake)

“She is very attentive and patient with students, explains things very well.” (Nicole, Japanese Beg 1 Student, January 2020 Intake)

“Ayano’s teaching style, enthusiasm, encouragement, patience and depth of knowledge.” (Benjamin, Japanese Beg 1 Student, January 2020 Intake)

“Everything was great: classmates, teacher, course plan, language.” (Hades, Japanese Beg 1 Student, January 2020 Intake)

“Fantastic teacher. The interaction and opportunity to practice the lesson concepts.” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, January 2020 Intake)

“Great and energetic. Teacher was friendly and lots of direct communication.” (Marvin, Japanese Beg 1 Student, January 2020 Intake)

“High energy and cheerful – brings life and fun to her classes. Practical – good to practice conversations.” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2019 Intake)

“It deepened my knowledge in Japanese grammar and expanding my vocabs.” (Anh Thu, Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2019 Intake)

“Great classmates. Teachers taught well.” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2019 Intake)

“Tutors were great. Interactive lessons; friendly atmosphere; scenario based dialogue.” (Jessie, Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2019 Intake)

“Teachers are friendly. Ease of asking questions, allowing us to learn what we thought were important phrases.” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2019 Intake)

“Being able to practice conversing in Japanese with my team mate. Teachers are accommodating and knowledgeable.” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2019 Intake)

“Both have good personalities which make it fun and interactive. I liked learning Japanese easily and the sensei made it fun.” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2019 Intake)

“How interactive the course was and how friendly the tutors were.” (Adrian, Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2019 Intake)

“Very fun and interactive. Very comprehensive and informative. Great teacher. Focus on sentence structure.” (Angela, Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2019 Intake)

“Practicing speaking with other students or writing Hiragana. Ayano was super awesome, engaging teacher.” (Julia, Japanese Beg 1 Student, March 2019 Intake)

“Engaging and laugh. The content is very practical.” (Christine, Japanese Beg 1 Student, March 2019 Intake)

“Ayano-san is perfect. Course was delivered in an interesting way. Ayano was always encouraging us.” (Siyi, Japanese Beg 1 Student, March 2019 Intake)

“Course was fun well explained and constantly engaging.”(Aaron, Japanese Beg 1 Student, March 2019 Intake)

“Best sensei.” (Teagan, Japanese Beg 1 Student, March 2019 Intake)

“Thank you for everything. Overall, it was always fun, good atmosphere, fun teacher and always engaging.” (Brandon, Japanese Beg 1 Student, March 2019 Intake)

“Ayano is very nice and friendly.” (Iris, Japanese Beg 1 Student, February 2019 Intake)

“I learnt conversational Japanese that I can use when I go there.” (Kim, Japanese Beg 1 Student, February 2019 Intake)

“Small class, informal so able to ask questions easily and practical content.” (Sharyn, Japanese Beg 1 Student, February 2019 Intake)

“Toshiko is very enthusiastic and always happy with full of knowledge.” (Bryan, Japanese Beg 1 Student, August 2018 Intake)

“She was amazing and full of knowledge. The small class size allowed more attention during class.” (Kham, Japanese Beg 1 Student, August 2018 Intake)

“I loved her enthusiasm and activities.” (Claire, Japanese Beg 1 Student, September 2018 Intake)

“She’s a really good teacher. I really love her. It was really fun. I learnt a lot with Ayano sensei.” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, August 2018 Intake)

“Very down to earth and funny.” (Terence-Kent, Japanese Beg 1 Student, August 2018 Intake)

“Ayano makes the class fun for us to practice our Japanese.” (Yi, Japanese Beg 1 Student, August 2018 Intake)

“She is awesome. I would love to continue on level 2 with Ayano please.” (Romina, Japanese Beg 1 Student, August 2018 Intake)

“Great learning environment.” (Roy, Japanese Beg 1 Student, August 2018 Intake)

“Ayano’s way of teaching was very effective.” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, July 2018 Intake)

“She made the class very fun and interactive. It was fun and interactive and Ayano taught us patiently.” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, July 2018 Intake)

“The lessons were really fun. I would like to do Beginner 2 with Ayano. Ayano explained everything clearly and in great details. She has great knowledge of how languages work generally.” (Katie, Japanese Beg 1 Student, July 2018 Intake)

“Ayano san has a very interesting teaching method. It was very fun.” (Preeti, Japanese Beg 1 Student, July 2018 Intake)

“Naoya was great and took a lot of time to prepare the lessons. He spent a lot of time answering all my random questions.” (Jeremy, Japanese Beg 1 Student, June 2018 Intake)

“Naoya is kind and patient. The course is useful with interesting information.” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, June 2018 Intake)

“Very patient, always took time to answer whatever question we had. I liked all of it, the openness to discussion was good and I learnt a lot about sentence structure which I’d struggled with previously.” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, June 2018 Intake)

“Topics are useful for both people interested in Japanese and those travelling there. Naoya is a fantastic teacher!” (Amelia, Japanese Beg 1 Student, June 2018 Intake)

“Ayano keeps things interesting and very interactive. I liked the revision sessions of previous lessons at the start of class.” (Kook, Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2018 Intake)

“I am very happy with Ayano’s teaching style.” (Ree, Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2018 Intake)

“Ayano was very friendly. I liked the speed of learning and friendly people.” (Callan, Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2018 Intake)

“Ayano is my favorite teacher. I liked how well structured the lessons were.” (Molly, Japanese Beg 1 Student, March 2018 Intake)

“Ayano was a helpful teacher and I liked the amount of knowledge she delivered.” (Linan, Japanese Beg 1 Student, March 2018 Intake)

“Ayano was really good and class size was small.” (Jack, Japanese Beg 1 Student, March 2018 Intake)

“Sensei Kishi is always making every class fun and interactive and everytjing was excellent.” (Nathaniel, Japanese Beg 1 Student, March 2018 Intake)

“Naoya was very patient and motivates students to learn. Pleasure to have him as a teacher.” (Kiana, Japanese Beg 1 Student, February 2018 Intake)

“Interactive participation with proper topics each week.” (Coco, Japanese Beg 1 Student, February 2018 Intake)

“Naoya was engaging and encouraging. We always felt welcomed.” (Laura, Japanese Beg 1 Student, February 2018 Intake)

“Naoya was energetic and engaging. We had fun lessons with good discussion. This course was well structured and good for beginner level.” (Matthew, Japanese Beg 1 Student, February 2018 Intake)

“Naoya was very responsive and friendly.” (Ricky, Japanese Beg 1 Student, February 2018 Intake)

“Good teacher and perfect pace.” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, August 2017 Intake)

“Toshiro was really nice and patient.” (Amelia, Japanese Beg 1 Student, August 2017 Intake)

“Toshiro san was really good.” (Peter, Japanese Beg 1 Student, August 2017 Intake)

“Very good tutor. Interesting teaching method” (Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2017 Intake)

“Great opportunity to meet a lot of new friends. I love all the activities during the class” (Uyen, Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2017 Intake)

“Manami-san is AWESOME. She is the best!!!” (Linh, Japanese Beg 1 Student, May 2017 Intake)

“I loved the race to the board game and starting each lesson with revision and information about Japan” (Hanan-Gabriella, Japanese Beg 1 Student, April 2017 Intake)

“Toshiro was fantastic – a great teacher who encourages questions and learning” (Japanese Beg 1 Students, April 2017 Intake)

“Well-prepared class and Toshiro is a great teacher. I enjoyed this course very much” (Kevin, Japanese Beg 1, April 2017 Intake)

“Toshiro was a great teacher! Looking forward to doing Beginner 2 with him” (Japanese Beginner 1 Student, April 2017 Intake)

“The tutor is very kind, patient and knowledgeable. She used cultural lessons as well as language lessons” (Lauren Japanese Beginner 1 April 2016 Session)

“The course material is very informative and well prepared. Tutor has very good teacher experience and knowledge.” (Japanese Beginner 1 Student, May-July 2014 Session)

“I liked the variety of study materials in the class. Not just handouts but we also learnt songs and given Japanese articles to look at.” (Japanese Beginner 1 Student, September-November 2012 Session)

“The teacher was fantastic! Her enthusiasm was so much fun.” (Japanese Beginner 1 Student, September-November 2012 Session)

“Toshiko was knowledgeable and passionate about Japanese. Her enthusiasm and education make the course very pleasant.” (Japanese Beginner 1 Student, July-September 2012 Session)

“Toshiko is very professional and knowledgeable. The overall course structure is good! ” (Japanese Beginner 1 Student, July-September2012 Session)

“I like the relaxed nature of the class and class participation. Toshiko is wonderful! :)” (Japanese Beginner 1 Student, July-September 2012 Session)

“Small class size; the course was paced pretty well, any more faster and I would have felt lost.” (Japanese Beginner 2 Student, June-August 2012 Session)

“Sensei Toshiko is a native speaker and has many years of experience. She is friendly and made sure to include a variety of activities. She also provided a variety of useful handouts from different sources.” (Japanese Beginner 1 Student, March-May 2012 Session)

“Toshiko Jackson is a very engaging teacher. I like listening to her experiences and her classes are very challenging.” (Japanese Beginner 1 Student, March-May 2012 Session)

“I would like to let you know that Ms. Chie Shattel was an exceptional teacher and she really helped me in learning the language before I had to go and answering the many questions that I had in regards to terms etc that will be useful to me in Japan. She is a very good teacher and a nice lady aswell, I am very grateful to you and to her for having me in the class, I really enjoyed it and am sorry I could not complete the rest of the course.” (Joe McKenzie, February-April 2012 Session)

“I have enjoyed the course and need to study more. The course is quite good value for money. The teacher is very good and gives a lot of attention and time for students. She is also knowledgeable and patient.” (Japanese Beginner 1 Student, April-June 2011 Session)

“Chie is a great teacher to teach Japanese” (Japanese Beginner 1 Student, 2010 Session)

“I am finding the Japanese course very interesting and hope to complete this course and go onto part 2 as soon as possible. I think the teacher covers a large amount of learning material in the 2 hours of the class and does a great job of giving the class as much information as possible in the time available. I am really enjoying the Japanese for beginners course, I find Katsumi to be a very good teacher. I would recommend the course to anybody wanting to learn Japanese.” (Steve, Japanese Beginners 1)

“Thank you for the excellent private Japanese tutoring at Sydney Language Solutions! My tutors were well qualified, extremely helpful, and great teachers. I learnt Japanese faster than I thought was possible, thanks to their excellent teaching methods. The admin staffs were also extremely friendly and helpful.” (Sandra, Japanese Beginners)

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