Petites Étoiles Atelier is a Huntsville-based character design academy built for artists who want to learn how to create characters with more intention, confidence, and personality.
We offer classes, camps, workshops, and specialty programs for youth and adults, with lessons that can cover drawing fundamentals, shape language, expressions, posing, costumes, props, comics, and visual storytelling. Some programs are structured and sequential, while others are short creative experiences designed to let artists explore a specific idea or skill.
Beginners are always welcome, and more experienced artists can use the same lessons to push their work further. My goal is to make character design feel approachable without watering it down—to give students real tools they can keep using long after a class ends.
Petites Étoiles is also proudly human-made. All artwork, demonstrations, and instruction come from an artist, with no generative AI used in the creative process.
Most of all, I want this to be a place where artists can try things, ask questions, make mistakes, build confidence, and leave with work that feels like their own.
Inspiring every artist to shine.
