Illustration school training courses in Baltimore, MD (public, in-house or online)

The Digital Illustration degree curriculum gives students the skills and tools necessary to work as freelance digital illustrators or as team members in digital art and design studios. Focusing primarily on the rendering of imagery for advertising, commercial, and entertainment purposes, the Digital Illustration curriculum combines traditional drawing and painting skills with new media digital applications and output strategies.

Digital Design and Graphics incorporates all of the processes and industries that create, develop, produce or disseminate ideas, concepts, and information utilizing words or images. Digital Design and Graphics is the interaction of advertising, graphic design, publishing, package design, marketing, interactive media and photography.

This program will prepare the student for various positions in the expanding field of visual communications or for transfer to a four-year institution. Studen...

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This course focuses on drawing the clothed figure for fashion and general illustration. Importance is placed on understanding the body.

The MFA curriculum in Illustration concentrates on visual communication and a proficiency in technical and conceptual abilities and trains candidates in the formulation of ideas, problem solving and artistic skills. The department’s talented faculty cultivates creativity in drawing techniques and concepts, color theory and visual storytelling.

The Illustration program offers a balance of classical art skills with technical training in new media, allowing the candidate to develop a po...

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Our students learn the skills that are in demand, from the best in the industry. The Graphic Illustration program offers a balance of classical art skills and technical training in new media, bringing together the disciplines of illustration and graphic design to prepare students to take advantage of the many opportunities for artists trained in drawing, painting, and typography.