Lesson 1
Animals
Coming Q3 2026.
- 44 minutes
- 3 Free Videos
- Pencil, Ink and Paper
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Ink Sketching: Advanced Techniques
Aaron Limonick
Refine your ink sketching with Aaron Limonick as you create dynamic multi-subject illustrations filled with expressive mark-making, environments, and storytelling. Build portfolio-ready scenes while developing your own artistic voice.
Advanced7h 30m21 Videos
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$80
$48
Available August 01, 2026
Turn your sketchbook to its next chapter.
Take your traditional ink sketches to a higher level of artistry and personal expression with concept artist Aaron Limonick. This course focuses on bringing multiple subjects and ideas together, teaching you how to build scenes that feel dynamic, cohesive, and fully illustrated. You’ll start by sketching human figures and animals, before moving into more ambitious compositions that mix classical approaches with modern genre sensibilities. Throughout the course, you’ll explore multi-figure scenes, intricate environments, and expressive mark-making that pushes past technical accuracy into true artistic voice. By the end, you’ll have a collection of advanced illustrations that reflect your own style and imagination. This course also comes with a materials guide covering the pens, paper, and tools Aaron recommends.
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What you'll learn
A guided path through every stage of the course, broken down into focused lessons you can work through at your own pace.
Lesson 2
Robots
Coming Q3 2026.
- 46 minutes
- 4 Videos
Lesson 3
Humans
Coming Q3 2026.
- 1h 17m
- 3 Videos
Lesson 4
Historical Scenes
Coming Q3 2026.
- 2h 8m
- 5 Videos
Lesson 5
Sci-Fi Scenes
Coming Q3 2026.
- 2h 34m
- 6 Videos
Course curriculum is subject to change. Final content and structure will be confirmed at launch.
Meet your instructor
Aaron Limonick
Aaron Limonick is a concept artist and illustrator with more than two decades of experience in the film and game industries. He has created designs for studios including Naughty Dog, HBO, Paramount, 20th Century Fox and Blur, and he now serves as a World Art Director at Activision Blizzard. Alongside his production work, Aaron is known for his expressive traditional sketching practice, using pens, markers, and brush tools to explore ideas with clarity, confidence, and bold graphic style.
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My career as a concept artist started after taking these courses. Much of what I learned I applied to my portfolio and in a couple months ... I got my first job.
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Course Lesson Plan
Here's a full list of all the videos in this course.
- 7 hours 30 minutesTotal Bundle Duration
- 21 VideosVideo Lectures in Bundle
Tools Used ?The tools listed below are used throughout the lectures of this course. Using alternatives is definitely possible depending on your proficiency, but we can only recommend using these listed softwares.
The tools listed below are used throughout the lectures of this course. Using alternatives is definitely possible depending on your proficiency, but we can only recommend using these listed softwares.
- Pencil, Ink and Paper
Lesson 1
Animals
Coming Q3 2026.
- 44 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 3 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Lesson 2
Robots
Coming Q3 2026.
- 46 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 4 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Lesson 3
Humans
Coming Q3 2026.
- 1h 17mTotal Lesson Duration
- 3 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Lesson 4
Historical Scenes
Coming Q3 2026.
- 2h 8mTotal Lesson Duration
- 5 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Lesson 5
Sci-Fi Scenes
Coming Q3 2026.
- 2h 34mTotal Lesson Duration
- 6 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
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