Digital Mark-Making with Tayasui Sketches | iPad Art Lesson | Grades 6 to 12

This lesson lowers every barrier to digital drawing. Students explore brushes in Tayasui Sketches, an app that feels like paint and paper, then make two observational studies from reference images: one loose and expressive, one slow and deliberate. They finish with a sketchbook page and a subject worth carrying forward. It works as a standalone lesson or as the first step of the full Digital Art and Animation unit.

What's included: session guide with minute-by-minute timing, a reference image planning page, circulating prompts, sticking points, two differentiated tracks, and an exit checklist · editable Canva slide deck

Grades: 6 to 12 · Time: 3 hours, adaptable to class periods · App: Tayasui Sketches