Famous Artist School

Famous Artists Course in Commercial Art, Illustration and Design

This is the Course for you if you want to enjoy a full-time or part-time career creating illustrations for books and magazines, fashion drawings, posters, greeting cards, graphic designs, or many other exciting and well-paying areas in the field of commercial art.

Doug Watkins:
"I had a tremendous career as a free-lance commercial artist. Famous Artists School is the only training I had when I started out!"

As a well-trained commercial artist, you enjoy the "best of two worlds." You can delight in much of the same excitement of creation that a fine artist experiences – while getting paid well for your work.

The Famous Artists Course in Commercial Art, Illustration and Design will teach you what you need to know for jobs at the entry level, and also the advanced, professional level.

You get personal and effective guidance from your professional Artist-Instructors that is expressly what you need, from basic drawing techniques on through specialized illustration and design projects. You are a "class of one"

Your personal Lesson Program – the Assignments you send in to Famous Artists School – begins with the basic Certificate Course of ten Lessons and progresses to the Advanced Courses, where you chose the elective subjects you want and need for your new career.

Famous Artists Certificate Course in Commercial Art, Illustration and Design

The ten Lessons of this Basic Course teach you the fundamental skills and techniques you need to make confident progress.

1. Drawing Techniques – Pencil and Ink Creating varied effects with pencil and ink – grades of pens – creating textures with the pen – brush and ink.

2. Painting Techniques – Wash and Opaque Watercolor Flat and graded washes – blending – creating different effects – mixing and blending in opaque painting – dry brush.

3. Design – the Vital Force in Art Design reaches into every area of art. The broadest meaning of design using simple, easy-to-understand parts.

4. Composition – Organizing the Picture Elements The selection and arrangement of elements in the picture – why a picture succeeds or fails.

5. Creative Perspective – How to represent objects so that they create the illusion of depth. How to see and draw things the way they look in real life.

6. Creating the Illusion of Solid Form – Every object has form or three dimensions – height, width and depth. You must learn how to create the "feeling" of form.

7. Creating Textures and Patterns – You learn to create a fascinating variety of forms, textures and surfaces in a variety of ways and with a variety of tools.

8. The Magic of Color Creative use of the dimensions of color – hue, value, and intensity – can make your picture successful and exciting.

9. Figure Drawing – A Creative Approach Importance of the human figure in pictures – construction and proportions – foreshortening. How to draw the basic figure.

10. Drawing Heads and Hands – Expression and Emotion The chief visual means of expressing human emotions. How to draw the head and features in different positions.