A place where your creative life finally feels at home
Welcome to Cindy’s Drawing Club
Somewhere along the way, you set your creative life aside. Not because you wanted to. Because life asked it of you, and you gave.
Now you’re here. And something in you is quietly asking: is it too late? Could a creative life actually be mine?
The Drawing Club is the answer to that question. And the answer is yes.
Yes, I’m ready to join Cindy’s Drawing Club
This is not just a drawing club
This is where your creative identity lives
Most drawing communities are about technique. What to do with your hand. Which pencil to use.
Cindy’s Drawing Club goes so much further than that.
This is a community of women who have spent decades in roles that asked everything of them, and very little for themselves. Women who are now, often for the first time, turning toward their own creative lives. They are on this journey together. And you can join them.
This is a private space, created with great care, for exactly this shift in life.
Because rediscovering your creative self is not a small thing.
It deserves a space that understands it.
Cindy Wider, Founder
A Word from Cindy
“Women who have spent their lives caring for others often arrive at retirement with a quiet, unexpected feeling of loss. They know there is more. They begin to ask: who am I now?
I created this space for exactly that woman.
It is a private online drawing community, tucked away from the noise of social media, with its own dedicated app. A place where we can focus entirely on what matters: escaping into the world of creativity, imagination, and self-discovery.
My intention has always been the same. To create somewhere safe, warm, and uplifting. A space where women feel free to explore who they are becoming, with kindness around them at every step.”
What you will discover inside the Drawing Club
- A library of bite-sized drawing and colouring courses, each completable in less than half a day — always something to pick up, explore, and enjoy at your own pace
- Cindy’s comprehensive Complete Online Drawing Course – her classic, loved by thousands of students worldwide
- Cindy’s Character Illustration Course – her leading children’s book illustration course, for women drawn to the world of story and image
- Behind the scenes in Cindy’s professional artist’s studio – recordings of her real creative process as she brings her children’s picture books to life
- Templates and structures for creating your own children’s books, should that dream be quietly yours
- A warm private online community of women from around the world – kind, curious, encouraging each other at every step
- A convenient app, so your creative life is always with you – no social media noise, no distractions, just your community
- Projects and explorations across coloured pencil, watercolour pencil, ink, acrylic, charcoal, graphite, and more
- Cindy’s encouragement and gentle guidance woven through everything – you are never drawing alone
Join the Drawing Club
That’s less than $10 a week for a creative life that is entirely your own
This is for you if…
You have spent years in a role that asked everything of you. And now, in this new chapter, you are ready to receive something for yourself.
You have spent your career in a caring or analytical profession – nursing, teaching, administration, leadership – and now you are ready to discover who you are beyond that role.
You want to draw, yes. But what you really want is to feel creatively alive. To have something that is entirely and joyfully yours.
You want to belong somewhere that truly understands this particular moment in your life.
What drawing alone looks like
And what the Drawing Club changes
Without the Drawing Club:
- You draw for a while, then stop. Life gets in the way.
- You hit a wall and don’t know what to do next.
- It stays a quiet private thing, separate from who you are.
- You wonder if you’re doing it ‘right.’
- The creative spark fades without anything to feed it.
With the Drawing Club:
- You show up consistently because your community is expecting you.
- You have Cindy’s guidance and a library of resources to keep you moving.
- It becomes part of your identity, woven into your days, your conversations, your sense of self.
- You draw with confidence, because you understand the skills underneath every drawing.
- The spark becomes a flame. Steady, warm, and yours.
How the Drawing Club works
Simple. Warm. Built around your life
01: Join the club
Instant access. No waiting list. From the moment you join, your private online community and the full course library are open and waiting.
02: Choose where to begin
Pick a bite-sized course you can complete in half a day, or settle into the Complete Online Drawing Course or Character Illustration Course. Not sure where to start? Simply ask Cindy in the community chat — she will put together a personal study path just for you.
03: Draw and colour alongside Cindy
The live draw-alongs and colour-alongs are where something special happens. Cindy guides you through every step. Unhurried. Warm. No experience required.
04: Find your community
Your fellow members – mostly women in their 50s, 60s, and beyond – are drawing alongside you. Sharing their work. Encouraging yours. A private space free from the noise of social media.
05: Watch your creative identity grow
This is not about becoming a ‘good artist.’ It is about becoming more fully yourself. Drawing by drawing, that is exactly what happens.
From women who made the shift
Women who discovered their creative identity
“I spent the last half century believing I could not draw. Cindy helped me realise what I once thought impossible is absolutely possible. We are all creative souls, yet at some point in our lives we begin to believe we are not. With each exercise I see improvement in my drawing and colouring skills. I believe I can, with practice, make continuous progress. It is truly a beautiful and replenishing experience.”
– Shirin Shamsi, USA
Your guide – Cindy Wider
The woman who knows you are creative
35 years. Thousands of women. One steadfast belief.
Cindy Wider is a Creativity and Drawing Coach, Art Therapist, author, and artist based in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia.
For over three decades she has been doing one thing: helping accomplished women step fully and joyfully into the creative identity that has always been theirs.
She created the Creative Identity Transformation™ Method, which begins with a simple, important truth: drawing originates in the logical, analytical brain first. It is a set of learnable skills you already use every day.
The four Comparison Skills – Comparing Angles, Sizes, Tones, and Spaces – are things you already know how to do. Cindy simply shows you how you have been using them all along.
The Drawing Club is her community. The place she has built for exactly this: women who are ready, women who are curious, women who are finally turning toward themselves.
Join the Drawing Club
Your annual membership
$497 USD / year
Less than $10 a week for a creative life that is entirely your own
- The Complete Online Drawing Course – Cindy’s comprehensive classic
- The Character Illustration Course – Cindy’s children’s book illustration course
- A full library of bite-sized courses, draw-alongs, colour-alongs, and printables
- Behind-the-scenes studio access and children’s book creation resources
- Explorations across coloured pencil, watercolour pencil, ink, acrylic, charcoal, graphite and more
- A warm private online community with a convenient app
- Your own pace, your own creative journey – no pressure, no expectations
- Instant access from the moment you join
Yes — I’m ready to join the Drawing Club
Membership is capped. The Drawing Club remains intimate and personal by design.
What you might be wondering
I haven’t drawn since I was a child. Is this really for me?
Completely. Every course, draw-along, and colour-along in the Drawing Club is designed for all levels, including complete beginners. The belief that you ‘can’t draw’ is one Cindy has spent 34 years gently dismantling. You already have every skill you need. The Drawing Club simply helps you find them.
I tried drawing before and stopped. What makes this different?
Community, consistency, and Cindy. When you have a warm group of women drawing alongside you, a course library always waiting, and Cindy’s daily presence in the community – stopping becomes much harder. And coming back becomes effortless.
How much time does it take each week?
As much or as little as your life allows. There are no expectations on you at all. The bite-sized courses are designed to be completed in half a day. The community is there whenever you want it. You draw as often or as little as life permits. There is no right way to belong here.
What if I want more than the Drawing Club?
The Drawing Club is the heart of Cindy’s community. For women who want a deeper, more personal transformation – including creating a high-level realism self-portrait – the 12-Week Creative Identity Transformation Program runs twice a year for a small group of women.
“All it takes is one tiny spark to affect so much change.”
That spark is already in you. It has always been in you.
The Drawing Club is where it becomes a light you carry with you, everywhere.
Come and join us. We have been waiting for you.