Food Illustration with Ink & Watercolor

Food tells stories of culture, comfort, travel, and everyday joy. In this 3-hour hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to illustrate food using fountain pen linework combined with watercolor washes, creating expressive, loose, and lively food illustrations.

We’ll explore how to observe real food, simplify shapes, build confident pen lines, and layer watercolor to add warmth and texture. Whether you love sketching at cafés, journaling your meals, or creating art for social media, this workshop will help you turn everyday food into beautiful illustrated scenes.

Students will work on a complete food illustration by the end of the session and gain skills they can continue using in sketchbooks, postcards, journals, and artwork.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

You’ll learn how to sketch food confidently with fountain pen, combine ink and watercolor harmoniously, and observe and simplify real objects into strong compositions. The class covers texture techniques for food surfaces, color mixing for realistic yet expressive results, how to avoid muddy colors, and how to keep your illustrations loose and lively while developing your own personal sketching style.

WHO SHOULD JOIN

This workshop is perfect for beginners who want to start illustrating, journalers and planners who enjoy drawing food, artists curious about fountain pen sketching, and watercolor beginners looking for more structure. It’s also great for travelers who love urban sketching, stationery lovers who want practical art skills, and creatives who enjoy slow, cozy art sessions.

No prior fountain pen or watercolor experience is needed 

MATERIALS PROVIDED

- One 5ml vial of pigment ink (please ensure your fountain pen AND converter has been cleaned, emptied and dried a day before the workshop), alternatively you can purchase one in store on the day of the workshop at 10% off

- One Sakura White Gel Pen 

- Watercolor and paint brushes for class use on sharing basis

BRING YOUR OWN

- Journal or Sketchbook that can withstand ink (MD notebook, Traveler's Notebook insert, Watercolor Sketchbooks, Midori Spiral Ring Notebook, Hobonichi)

- Fountain Pen (Fine/Medium/Fude tip) with a converter

- Watercolor (optional)

CLASS DETAILS

Date: 12 September 2026, Saturday

Time: 12.00pm to 3.00pm

Fees: RM180

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Szetoo is an illustrator for her brand Stickerrific and has published several zines featuring watercolor artworks of her travels. She has been teaching watercolor workshops since 2014 and has worked with brands such as Muji, Uni-ball, Huckleberry, Pawcipes, Fujifilm, Healthland, MT, Mamee, Innisfree, Lipton and many more. 

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If you are unable to make it, you will need to get a substitute to replace you for the class as there will be no refunds. If you have any further enquiries, kindly email us at stickerrific.workshop@gmail.com.