Very cool, @sampottinger!
I guess I’ll need to update my table at GitHub - villares/Resources-for-teaching-programming: Resources for teaching programming for artists, designers and architects 
Being able to use the drawing function names on the global namespace helps teaching… even if later people end up liking the freedom from name clashes of using a dot-prefix. Anyway, if you can’t avoid the prefix, how about spy. or sk., as in import sketching as sk for your examples?
Another thing, do you have plans for SVG output? I miss it both in pygame and in pyodide based pyp5js. Teaching in non-formal learning settings, going from drawing to graphic design an then to digital fabrication (Laser cutting, CNC, 3D printing) is something I tap into a lot, and in that case, vector graphics is a must.