Who We Are

What Is It

The Visual Literacy Online Program is for both the serious student of any age and the professional artist. This program provides access to all of the Illustration Academy lessons taught by the world renowned illustrators and painters of today.

This site is really two websites in one!

1. The High School Section has its own Forum and Gallery, and it is FREE to High Schools and lower level schools.

2. The College/Pro Section has its own Forum and Gallery.

These two sections of content do not intermix, due to Age-Appropriate Content issues.

The High School students cannot see or interact with the College/Pro Forums or Gallery due to the possibility of mature subjects and content. For example, the College/Pro Forums host Figure Drawing Sessions once a week, which would not be appropriate for younger participants.

The College/Pro students cannot see or interact with the High School Forums or Gallery. This ensures that mistakes are not made when posting discussions or images that would not be appropriate for younger participants.

However, all other content is shared, such as Demonstration Videos, Blog Entries, Podcasts, News, and Announcements. (The exception is the Figure Drawing Demonstration Videos, which are blocked from High School participants).

Both sections get all the benefits of this library of information, and their own online community in which to interact and become productive members! A true experience of being surrounded by like-minded people, working toward the same beneficial goals.

The program is about professionals training professionals, and professionals exposing the real innerworkings of picture making and ideation to students of all ages. It's about real-world training that makes you a better picture maker. This program will help you to develop your portfolio whether you are in school or a working professional. Whether you are just learning the basics of artistic endeavors, entering an Art and Design college, or pursuing a career as a professional, the Visual Literacy Program will help you to obtain scholarships or better clients as a working professional by making your portfolio the best it can be.

A community of illustrators is important to artists and illustrators. Picture making in the industry of illustration is best learned from artists and illustrators in the industry. Picture making from your peers can also be helpful, and helps make the online community a place to learn about illustration. Editorial illustration, as well as book, digital, computer, fashion, and magazine illustration is also a part of this community. Freelance illustrating is difficult enough, why not be a part of a community of artists and illustrators. Learn from the best in visual literacy program and be the best you can be. This website may be thought of as a type of illustration course, or illustration school onliine. Perhaps even an illustrator course or illustrator class is to help students in illustrator training or digital painting. Illustration is the true focus of the illustrator training inside this community of an illustration course here at The Visual Literacy Program.An illustration course or illustration school is not the design of this illustrator course as much as it is meant to help a illustrator training to become better at picture making. Digital painting is also utilized by some members of the Illustration Academy faculty in our online illustration course, or illustration school, as some people call it. Design is another aspect of The Visual Literacy Program, and The Illustration Academy. Digital painting goes hand in hand in this illustrator class and the illustrator training developed over th past 15 years. An illustration school? An illustration course? Illustrators and illustration training has been part of the Illustration Academy and The Visual Literacy Program since it began.Be a part of it! Illustration and picture making is best learned from illustrators in the industry, and your peers, plus learn from artists in the gallery side of illustration as well............