Crafts, Hobbies & Toys

A Massachusetts native,  Todd M. Casey  studied at art schools in Boston and San Francisco before embarking on the classical artistic education offered by Jacob Collins’s famed Water Street Atelier in New York City. A modern master of the still life genre, Casey teaches at several institutions, including the Art Students League of New York. He is represented by Rehs Contemporary Galleries, Inc., New York, and his paintings are held in numerous private collections worldwide. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York’s Hudson Valley. Visit his website at toddmcasey.com.

Michel Lauricella  received his education at Paris’s École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (National School of Fine Arts). He has been teaching morphology for over twenty years, first at the Émile Cohl school in Lyons, then at the city of Paris’s Ateliers des Beaux-Arts, the Gobelins school in Paris, Lisaa in Paris, and the Atelier in Angoulême. He currently teaches at the Fabrica114 studio in Paris.

Brad Woodard is a designer, illustrator, and content creator who runs a creative agency called Brave the Woods. His agency’s focus is making fun educational products for both kids, and those who are kids at heart. He's designed for major brands, children's books, animations, toys, and more! He is also the host of the online show show The Brave Kids Art Club which not only teaches basic drawing techniques, but also how to explore and learn about the fascinating world around us. 

The moments of our lives are precious, but they pass so quickly. Drawing these moments—from special trips to our daily coffee—is a way to not only slow down time, but to celebrate it. Capturing in a sketchbook what we see in front of us turns the everyday into the extraordinary.

Jean-Pierre Lamérand is a self-taught designer and illustrator who also works in advertising. He is an illustrator with multiple styles, from humorous drawings to hyperrealistic animal representation and science fiction illustration. He is the author of educational books for learning to draw and is the author-illustrator of humorous and books for children. He lives in Montrouge, near Paris.

Spencer Nugent is the founder of Sketch-A-Day.com and IDSKETCHING.COM and has been providing free, high-quality online design sketching tutorial content and on-site sketch workshops since 2008. He has created an extensive online network and following within the Industrial Design community and continues to connect with students and design professionals via his online properties.

JESSICA MACK is an artist, illustrator, and author. She is also the founder of BrownPaperBunny Studio. Born and raised in Australia, Jessica currently lives in the USA’s Pacific Northwest with her family and two mischievous cats. She is an artist whose love of paper, bright colors, and florals runs deep. Her style is colorful, bold, and playful, with ink and watercolor being her mediums of choice. She takes inspiration from the world around her, in particular, people and nature. Jessica is largely self-taught and firmly believes that everyone is creative, whether they realize it yet or not.

Michel Lauricella received his education at Paris’s École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (National School of Fine Arts). He has been teaching morphology for over twenty years, first at the Émile Cohl school in Lyons, then at the city of Paris’s Ateliers des Beaux-Arts, the Gobelins school in Paris, Lisaa in Paris, and the Atelier in Angoulême. He currently teaches at the Fabrica114 studio in Paris.

Pierre Pochet has been crazy about drawing since his early childhood. He used to doodle all over the margins of his notebooks, which did not make his teachers very happy, and his parents even less so. Because drawing comics was “not a real profession,” he studied creative advertising at Brussels’s Center for the Decorative Arts (CAD), which was a revelation to him.