Sketching with Intent Workshop

*Future date to be announced!

2-Day Sketching Bootcamp
w/ Matt “Tooninator” Boismier

Gibsons, BC Sunshine Coast

Over two days you’ll explore:

✔ Mark-making techniques that feel alive
✔ Choosing tools that best help you
✔ Drawing from life with purpose
✔ Confident linework (no wimpy strokes)
✔ Quick ideation & thumbnail sketching
✔ Simple perspective that works
✔ Compositional flow: tangents, eye movement, balance
✔ Avoiding the “symbols” trap
✔ Caricature & editorial impact
✔ Speed + intention
✔ Most importantly - how to convey feeling

This workshop is for anyone who wants to:

* Improve their sketching practice

*Learn foundations that empower creative growth

*Create stronger paintings through ideation

*Learn to self-critique

*Build confidence

“Sketching isn’t about pretty pictures. It’s about capturing feeling, telling your visual story, and unlocking ideas before perfection gets in the way.” — Matt B.

❋ Expert Feedback

With an intimate class size, you’ll get lots of time for instructor feedback and help

❋ Professional Demonstrations

Watch demonstrations in real-time on an 80” Screen. No trying to look over a shoulder

❋ Hands-on learning

It’s encouraged to sketch along through the entire course. You won’t get in trouble for ‘doodling’

These are materials I’m very familiar with and so can instruct confidently. If you have tools that aren’t listed here but are super keen on, please bring them.

❋ Paper - Sketchbook or loose-leaf. Smooth paper will handle ink better. I use a stack of basic printer paper on a clipboard.

❋ Pencil - Blackwing Pearl or an equivalent 2B style pencil

❋ Ballpoint Pen - any ballpoint will work. A classic Bic is great.

❋ Tech/Micron Marker - Any brand (Micron, Faber Castell, Prismacolor etc)

OPTIONAL

❋ Tombow Marker - My favourite (gives life to your lines)

❋ Mechanical Pencil - any will do

❋ Brush Pen - Felt or other (advanced)

❋ Fountain Pen/ Dip Pen with nibs + Ink (advanced)

❋ Copic Markers - or equivalent alcohol base markers. A set of greyscale markers is ideal, but any can add life to sketches.

What you’ll need:

When

MARCH 14 / 15, 2026

10:00AM - 4:30PM

*The public market has a restaurant you can grab some lunch at if you wish.

Where

The Gibsons Public Market

The Coastal Room

Gibsons Public Market is the Sunshine Coast’s gathering place featuring local merchants, an award-winning bistro, a collect-hold-release, community aquarium and rental facilities. We are proudly operated by the Gibsons Community Building Society.