Trovskad is a place where drawing gets serious
Started in 2022 as a small experiment in live online teaching, we have grown into a focused webinar platform for illustration fundamentals — the kind of skills that actually stick.
Not a course catalog. Not a video library. Live sessions where you draw alongside an instructor and get seen.
Three things that shape every session
Honest feedback, not applause
Instructors comment on actual work shared during the session. Vague encouragement does not help anyone get better at line quality or perspective.
Live format, always
Every webinar runs in real time. You can ask mid-session, share your screen, and hear the instructor respond to your specific question — not a pre-recorded answer.
Built around fundamentals
Form, proportion, light, gesture — we keep coming back to the same foundations. Topics from Reuters coverage of art education confirmed what our instructors already knew: fundamentals compound over time.
live webinar topics covered each quarter, up from the original eight
minutes per session — extended after participants asked for more drawing time
Instructors who still draw regularly
Everyone who teaches on Trovskad maintains an active illustration practice. They bring recent Reuters news references, client briefs, and their own sketchbooks into sessions — not slides from five years ago.
passiveparticipatory — every session is built so participants draw, not just watch.
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Before joining, instructors do a trial session
Participants in that trial give written feedback used in the hiring decision.
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Sessions are reviewed quarterly
Recordings are reviewed to check pacing and how much actual drawing time participants got.
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No minimum class size pressure
Small groups run as scheduled. Six participants get the same session as sixteen.
Renata Ohlsen
Figure Drawing & GestureTeaches short-pose gesture with a focus on weight and silhouette. Has been drawing from life weekly for eleven years.
Dariusz Kwak
Form & Light FundamentalsRuns sessions on value structure and light logic. Participants frequently mention his method of breaking down shadow shapes as genuinely useful.