Young Illustrators Studio is a growing hub of online art classes taught by passionate, professional artists! We take students ages 3-18 from beginner to advanced in multiple disciplines by providing fun, social, student-driven, project-based curriculum that makes kids want to practice! Many of our students stay for years and forge life-long friendships!

At YIS we see proof everyday that the inspiration, experimenting, problem solving, setbacks, re-trying, support from peers and qualified mentors, breakthroughs and creative open-endedness of art-making in our classes gives young people more flexibility, innovation, courage and self-confidence in not only their art skills, but in all other areas of life! And we have a lot of fun doing it!

Young Illustrators Studio (YIS) was founded in 2025 as an expansion of Bear Howe’s experience teaching art to students on the Outschool.com platform. Kids wanted more classes and topics! Families wanted more availability! Bear knew a lot of professional artists and illustrators who’d be GREAT at teaching what they love, so YIS was created to bring more fantastic seasoned artists together with young aspiring ones!