Sketchbook,
The Online English Course for Artists

Make Your Mark in English

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.

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.

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).

Compatibility Check

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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Strong Foundations

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Professional Language Skills

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Personalised Vocabulary

You can check out ALL our Sketchbook English Course Outcomes.

English Courses are Not Designed for Artists

You know that you need English skills to shine in your creative career.

The problem is that even if you had the time to invest in language learning, the language skills you need are not covered by language schools and online classes.

You will feel bored and frustrated in traditional English courses by the waste of time, and give up.

Your studio needs your time.

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Sketchbook English is an online English course for artists, written by artist & art school lecturer, Ruth Pringle, for True Voice English – and practised with artists in studios around Perthshire, Scotland.

An Online English Course – just for Creatives

Sketchbook English is more than a course and a learning platform. It is a method for international creatives to gain the English language skills they need for their creative career.

Sketchbook English is modelled on a practical art school studio course. It is designed to fit into your creative career – wherever it’s currently taking you!

Finally, you can feel excited by the world of opportunities your new English skills unlock – all without leaving your studio.

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How Does it Work?

Sketchbook English is a generous series of practical exercises, based on the concept of using a sketchbook to develop ideas.

Over a 12-week course, you have daily challenges that guide you through learning the very vocabulary and grammar you need to express fundamental concepts about how and why you make art.

You have daily conversations with partner artists: UK-based practising creative professionals, sharing culture, tips and inspiration.

Weekly workshops with ELT coaches to ask questions, catch any errors and make newly acquired language memorable.

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Experiment, Test and Play

Sketchbook English does not tell you what or how to draw – it INSPIRES you to draw, create and experiment in English.

As you fill your sketchbook (or make daily digital animations, or add a new character to your play dough squirrel tableau), your heart, mind, and memory fill with English. That’s little bite-sized, manageable chunks of English that attach deeply in your mind – because they are YOURS.

It’s your language!

Career Ready English in Just 3 Months

You will be inspired, as we know that channelling your own creativity to master English is the key to thousands of new ideas, influences and opportunities.

In just three months, you will gain the English language skills your career needs.

Are you ready to find your creative voice in English?

Check your Compatibility.

It’s time to get excited!

Start scaling up your dreams.

Sketchbook English AMPLIFIES your creative impact WITH your English.

the world doesnt reward the people with the best ideas.

Course Features at a Glance

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Motivation

Daily exercises and challenges

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No Fixed Schedule

Learn when it suits you

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Accountability

We’ll help you to show up and work hard

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SLACK / WhatsApp Support

Talk with us DAILY about what you did and how it worked out

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Privacy

There’s no group to join.

No English learner community.

Daily, private conversations about whatever you’re working on with artists and English coaches.

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Peer-to-peer

You’ll be matched with Scottish artists for daily quick chats.

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Writing

Perfect your Artist Statement, sample Application Letter and Biography.

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Amplify

Show up on Social Media throughout this course

Plus a 14-day, no questions asked, money-back offer

English Course Refunds

If you are unhappy with our Sketchbook: An Online English Course for Artists, we offer you a 14-day refund.

That’s enough time to see what you’ve signed up for – give it a try and receive a no-quesdtions-asked refund.

That’s 14 days from the date you receive access to the course content.

True Voice English at the Regional Scottish EDGE awards, Perthshire

Proud to Be Shortlisted for Scottish Regional EDGE

You can read our Tips for Short Pitches & About Being a Finalist for a Scottish Regional EDGE Business Award for the Sketchbook English online course for artists.

True Voice English Founders

Jennie Reed (left), a pronunciation specialist and Neurolanguage Coach®, and Ruth Pringle (right), a real-world English specialist are the True Voice English course designers, but not the whole team.

Choose to learn English for Art Purposes with us and you’ll get daily creative challenges, and regular conversations with Scottish artists in their studios – all supplemented with a light touch of English coaching by language coaches with different ways of helping.

Our online course for artists is not English lessons!

It’s a graduate-level practice-led studio art course that trains you in English for Creative Careers.

True Voice english founders Ruth Pringle and Jennie Reed

Are you ready to express your creative vision with confidence in English?

Sign up for our newsletter (below) to see how you can get involved in our upcoming English course designed specifically for artists, creatives, designers and architects.

Let’s unlock your full potential together!

Further Information

*Kinetic Learning emphasizes movement, hands-on experiences, and physical interaction to help learners process and retain information.

Everyone learns differently, but in general, creatives tend to respond best to kinetic learning as it engages their mind and holds their interest, forging a deeper connection to the language.

Glossary of Active Language Learning Terms

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