Sketchbook: the only online language method built for Creatives

In just 12 weeks, build creative fluency, confidence for presentations, peer conversations, and real-world success.

In just 12 weeks, build English fluency through practice, confidence through peer chats, and the language to present and collaborate.

Make your Mark – in English

When you know how you want to feel in English, how you want to grow with it, and who you want to become (or need to become) using it, in order to achieve your bigger goals, the work we do becomes more than practice.

It becomes transformation.

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Flexibility

No solution or language system can serve every creative unless it flexes around you, adapting to your pace, creative practice, interests, and the way you naturally learn best.

Sketchbook English is so flexible it can see its own butt.

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What English skills do Creatives Need?

Like everyone, creatives need a strong general foundation in English language structures.

You’ll need a specialist vocabulary to present your art/design practice and projects in detail, but to be honest, that’s the easy bit to learn.

You also need language skills for collaborations, presentations, project management, social media comments & content, giving instructions, expressing opinions, critiquing, giving advice/feedback and self-promotion.

No general language course will give you all this.

Only a practice-led, real-world English course will help you to find your words.

Specialist Language is Different for EVERY Creative

It’s not like ‘English for Nurses’ where every student’s language needs are much the same.

Don’t waste more time in English class groups waiting for the language to become relevant.

Our Sketchbook English Course Gives You:

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No Fast-Forward — Just Rock-Solid Skills with Strong Foundations

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Career-Ready English for Professional Situations

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Vocabulary as Unique as Your Art

You can check out ALL our Sketchbook English Course Outcomes.

Course Outcomes

1/3 of the course is talking with artists

English Courses are Not Designed for Artists

You already know English is key to growing in your creative career.

But here’s the problem: even if you make time for language learning, the skills you actually need as an artist or designer are never taught in traditional courses.

Instead, you get stuck in generic lessons that feel irrelevant, boring, and like a waste of your energy — until you give up.

And you can’t afford that. Your studio needs your focus.

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Sketchbook English is an online English course for artists, designed by artist & art school lecturer Ruth Pringle, with communication expert Jennie Reed — and practised alongside artists in Scotland.

An Online English Course – just for Creatives

More than a course — a method for creatives.
Sketchbook English helps international artists, designers & makers build the English their careers demand.

Modelled on a practical art school studio class, it fits seamlessly into your practice — wherever your creative journey is taking you.

At last, you can feel inspired by the opportunities English unlocks — without ever having to step away from your studio.

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Creative Solutions for Creative Minds

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Here’s what we know about designing a language course for artists & designers:

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It should be almost entirely practice-led

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It needs to put lots of small, interesting morsels into your path...

…and find ways that reward you for picking them up that:

make sense to your craft
Don’t get in the way of your urgent pursuit.

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All content must make language acquisition intellectually interesting, sensory and engaging.

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It can entice you into a more interesting place

and visualise a future of language competency (and how that relates to your goals).

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The process ought to reroute your path

through the creatively challenging, real-world situations it brings the user.

(Everything worth doing reroutes your path!)

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The course must be efficient

Time engaging = time learning.

(No listening to other learners practice without being involved in conversation).

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It dares to be brave

Using a second language takes courage, and that should be treated like a muscle and exercised (or it fades).

1/3 of the course is coaching with ELT specialsits

How Does it Work?

Sketchbook English gives you a generous series of practical, sketchbook-style exercises to develop your ideas and your language.

Across 12 weeks, you’ll take on daily challenges that help you master the exact vocabulary and grammar you need to explain how — and why — you make art.

You’ll also connect in regular conversations with partner artists: UK-based creative professionals who’ll share culture, insights, and inspiration from their own practice.

And every week, you’ll have an invitation to join workshops with expert ELT coaches — a space to ask questions, fix mistakes, and make your new language unforgettable.

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Experiment, Test and Play

Sketchbook English doesn’t tell you what or how to draw — it sparks your creativity in English.

Whether you’re filling a sketchbook, making daily digital animations, or adding another character to your play-dough squirrel tableau, you’re also filling your heart, mind, and memory with English.

These are bite-sized, manageable chunks of language that stick — because they’re rooted in your own creativity, and they’re truly yours.

It’s your language!

Career-Ready English in Just 3 Months

When you channel your own creativity into learning, English stops feeling like study and starts opening doors — to new ideas, influences, and opportunities.

In only three months, you’ll build the language skills your career demands — and the confidence to use them.

Are you ready to claim your creative voice in English?