Extra Curricular designs small, flexible workshops that learn how you learn and adapt to you.

We have two specialised pathways in illustration and game design, but our real specialty is building resilient, creative problem-solvers. Rather than just skill acquisition, our focus is helping students grow into resourceful learners who can turn roadblocks into scaffolds, reliably complete projects and go on to share their skills with others.

Supporting our illustration and game design courses are weekly open workshops, where anyone is welcome to bring their current project to continue development, get feedback and collaborate.

Inclusive and accessible education is prioritised in all workshops, with your habits, mind and environments considered to avoid learning burnout and to support all neurotypes.

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🎨 Illustration Pathway*

Develop foundational drawing skills with the goal of creating art for stories and games. The ability to communicate visually isn't just about fundamentals like shape, colour and light, but also about understanding viewers and how to create accessible meaning. We'll practice the basics with animals and humans before moving on to composing scenes and storyboards. Students who want to learn digital art can stick around for the digital media section, where we'll cover common creative software, setup and transferring traditional media skills to the screen.

🎲 Game Design Pathway*

Learn the principles of designing tabletop games and practice your new skills through a series of game-making projects. We'll cover topics like core mechanics, gameplay loops, strategy, fun and player accessibility, helping you to design, test and create your own games to take home and share with others. To thoroughly explore the huge variety of game genres and formats, this pathway includes 19 different projects spanning card games, print and play, video game adaptations and more.

🛠️ Open Workshops

Larger workshops open to anyone with a creative project or work-in-progress. Intended to give students a consistent space to practice skills learned during Pathway workshops, give and receive feedback and collaborate with others. A great way to experience cross-pollinating skills and disciplines in a low-ego atmosphere, which helps in developing generalised, transferrable thinking skills you can use in other areas of your life.

*Pathway workshops have limited seats - small enough to involve each student fully, but large enough for bouncing ideas and having fun.