ABOUT LITTLE ADVENTURES

Little Adventures are start-to-finish illustration courses designed to be doable, repeatable, and full of small wins. Every adventure follows four simple steps — study, prepare, practice, and imagine — that make creating feel manageable and fun. You'll study your inspiration, prepare your supplies, practice with project breakdowns, and then imagine your finished illustration into something wonderfully your own. It's how I work in my own studio, one small steady step at a time.

IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES

Somewhere out there is a sweet, misunderstood monster who tries very hard to blend in — and absolutely cannot. Grumblemuffin is a course about building that creature from the inside out: monster bits and bold backdrops, quiet patterns and unexpected details, all layered together until your lovable beast almost disappears into the background. Almost. You'll practice sixteen background patterns — from plaid and chevron to scales and cobblestones — before building your own start-to-finish illustration, where your Grumblemuffin's camouflage and their personality are one and the same. The workbook closes with five sample monsters (Snugglepie, Sunshine Fritter, Bumble Dumpling, Snuffle Crumble, and Drizzle Pudding, and Wriggle Biscuit) — each with line art and a finished painting to study, copy, and be inspired by.

UNLOCK A NEW SKILL

With a background in graphic design and fine art, I create illustrations that tell hidden stories. The skill at the heart of Grumblemuffin is learning to make pattern and character speak the same language. The background your monster stands against isn't a backdrop — it's their disguise, their costume, their personality made visible. You'll learn to design repeating patterns with watercolor that feel cohesive whether they're covering a belly or filling an entire background, and then assemble a finished illustration where creature and environment echo each other in color, shape, and texture. It's the art of building a world and a character at the same time, so neither one exists without the other.

BUILD YOUR CRAFT

Grumblemuffin follows the Little Adventures structure with real intention. The study phase asks you to look at the world as a pattern source — wallpaper websites, toddler coats, out-of-style tile — anything that could become a Grumblemuffin's camouflage. The breakdown practice pages give you sixteen patterns to sketch and paint in small squares before you ever touch the final illustration, so by the time you arrive at your start-to-finish project, your hands already know how each pattern behaves. The imagination phase then brings it all together: pencil to paper, paint to background, creature assembled and placed with pop-dots for dimension. It's a patient, layered process of building confidence one small square at a time, creating a depth that shorter classes simply can't match.

WHAT YOU GET

This adventure includes a single downloadable PDF workbook with everything you need from start to finish. Inside you'll find the study and inspiration notes, supply reference pages, sixteen background pattern samples shown first as line art and then in full color, breakdown practice pages for drawing and painting the patterns yourself, the start-to-finish project notes and Studio Session references, and a gallery of five named sample monsters — each with printable line art and a finished illustration — for copying, studying, and sparking ideas of your own. Everything is downloadable and yours to keep.

LEARN OFFLINE, ANYTIME

Every course includes a dedicated Start Here lesson — your personal download hub where all your packets and videos are organized and waiting for you. Save everything to your device and keep learning wherever you are, whenever you want.