The Pop Up Book (8-12)

with artist & tutor Holly Summerson Thursdays 4.30 - 6pm

Starts Jan 16, 2025

220 British pounds

Great King Street

Available spots

Service Description

Explore pop-up, 3D and interactive illustrations in this introduction to pop-up books. After learning different techniques for bringing illustrations off the page, we will design and make our own three page pop-up books. Pop-up books are exciting, interactive ways to enjoy stories and illustrations. They involve careful measuring and folding, but also imagination, creativity, and a love of art. In these workshops we will play and experiment with drawing and making, and create fun, unique books. You don’t need to have any experience making pop-up books to take this course. Lesson Overview Week 1: Pop-up Cards Learn how to make a pop-up card with a few simple cuts! Week 2: Pop-up Cubes Use cubes and rectangles to create a pop-up page. Week 3: Pop-up Panels Learn how to create illustrations that can stand upright. Week 4: Magic Tabs Design your own interactive tab to change one picture to another. Week 5: Storytelling Come up with ideas for your own pop-up book story. Week 6: Designing Pop-up Illustrations Learn how to turn 2D designs into 3D pop-up scenes. Week 7: Creating Artwork Use the techniques you learned over the past weeks to create 3 pop-up pages. Week 8: Making the Book Bring your pages together into a pop-up book. Holly Summerson is an animator, illustrator and community artist, specialising in 2D, hand-drawn and paper-cut techniques. She has led creative workshops with people of all ages, with a focus on supportive, welcoming and accessible introductions to artistic skills. Since training in animation at Edinburgh College of Art, Holly has worked as a freelance professional in animation, illustration and design for five years.

Upcoming Sessions

Cancellation Policy

We will provide a 50% refund if you give written advance notice up to 30 days before the course start date. 0% refund 30 days before a course starts. Please note there is an administration fee of £5 payable in respect of such refunds to cover payment processing fees. You will need to inform a member of administration staff in writing by emailing EDS at info@edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk. Additionally, if you withdraw for any reason after the course has started you will not be entitled to a refund. We are a small business and we depend on every booking to ensure that classes can go ahead. If a tutor has to withdraw from teaching the scheduled course for any reason (medical/personal/professional) before the start of a scheduled course, during a scheduled course, if the course is 8 weeks long or scheduled as x3 terms of 8 weeks long each, The Edinburgh Drawing School will find a replacement tutor for the course designed by that tutor for The Edinburgh Drawing School. The course content will be the same as the originally booked course. A student will not be entitled to a refund should the school have no option but to find a replacement tutor. If a tutor leaves and starts work elsewhere, and a student prefers to take classes with them personally at the tutor's new workplace, that is at the discretion of the student and no refund is entitled to them or will be given. If a student is unable to attend a class due to medical/personal/professional reasons, then EDS must be informed immediately so that the tutor can be notified. If you are missing a class because you suspect that you have developed Covid-19, please let us know immediately so that we can alert fellow student and tutors. Non-attendance of classes/workshops does not automatically mean a refund, however EDS will assess the circumstance