Career Art, Illustration, and Design Textbooks
When you enroll in the Famous Artists School Course in Career Art, you will receive a four-volume set of texts, a mailer and labels for sending your assignments to your instructor, instructions, assignments and assignment guides, and the useful booklet How to turn your part-time painting into dollars.
Four handsome and richly illustrated volumes will guide you easily, step by step, through each of your Lessons. You’ll have fun while you learn the secrets of our Famous Artists. And your textbooks, with their detailed descriptions of valuable techniques, are yours to keep for a lifetime of reference and inspiration.
As you work on each Assignment, your Study Guide Instructions will refer you to the appropriate Sections in your textbooks. You’ll also find it valuable to review these inspiring books often. Each time you reread a Section you’ll discover a deeper, richer meaning, and when you apply this new knowledge to your artwork, you’ll be delighted at the progress you are making.
Here is a glimpse of some of the major subjects covered in your textbooks:
Introduction to Design
The basic fundamentals of design—pattern, shape, balance and space. Good design excludes every inessential element.
Observation: the Artist’s Primary Tool
Learning to see closely and analytically. Using value contrasts, edges, and perspective to make pictures come alive.
Figure Composition
The expression of emotion in pictures by the way the figures are used in the composition. How to make the figure dominate the scene.
Mood and Emotion in Illustration
Successful pictures largely depend on communicating human feelings. Symbols, point of view, theme, rhythm and design.
Advanced Techniques in Line and Tone
Variety of creative effects. Learning to draw and paint with reproduction in mind. Effects with different mediums.
Landscapes and Interiors
Nature as a source for the artist. Awareness of changing light, form and mood in landscapes. Selecting and organizing the view.
Anatomy and the Figure in Motion
A simplified approach. How bones and muscles affect the surface of the figure. Major characteristics of male and female forms.
Draping the Figure
How drapery affects the figure. Drawing the principal fold patterns. Draping the male and female figure. How material shows action.
Fashion Illustration
Proportions of the fashion figure. How to pose the figure to emphasize the characteristics of the garments and fashion details
Animal Drawing
The structure of man and animal compared. How to draw the four basic animals: horse, dog, cat and cow. Gaits of animals
Creative Advertising and Editorial Design
Creating a symbol for an idea. Stylizing heads, figures, and objects—simplification—traditional and contemporary layouts.
Creative Lettering
The aesthetics of letter forms—the basic alphabet spacing, optical illusions, layout lettering, finished lettering.
Experimental Design and Layout
Dominance and balance—the effect of backgrounds, basic layout designs, how to simplify the motif and the design.
Specialized Design
Viewing each problem from many points of view. Creating a design that reflects the character of the individual publication.
Television Art
How to develop and finish a storyboard. Getting the right story emphasis. Timing of the action. Picturing the sponsor’s product.
The World is Your Studio
The exciting role of the artist as a reporter. The picture story. Finding effective symbols. The opportunities for today’s artists.
The Art Kit contains the supplies you need to complete your assignments
The FAS Art Kit contains several brushes, oil and watercolor paint, India ink, a pen and pentips, pencils, kneaded erasers, a mixing tray, paper, a palette, and more all contained in a high quality wooden artist’s box that can also be used as an easel.
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