Who We Are
The Visual Literacy Online Program is powered by the award winning Illustration Academy faculty. The Illustration Academy has taken a unique approach to training professional illustrators of today as well as those looking to become the professionals of tomorrow.
You will be hard pressed to find an online learning program with such a professional level of instruction. You will learn from artists such as Mark English, Gary Kelley, George Pratt, Sterling Hundley, C.F. Payne, Anita Kunz, Jon Foster and many more.
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What Is It
The Visual Literacy Online Program is for both the serious student 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.
The program is about professionals training professionals. 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 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.
The faculty of The Illustration Academy and the Visual Literacy Program is as follows: Mark English, Gary Kelley, Anita Kunz, Chris Payne, C. F. Payne, Jon Foster, George Pratt, Sterling Hundley, John English, Brent Watkinson, and Doug Chayka. These illustrators and picture makers helped design the Visual Literacy Program to be a website that is much like an illustration class, or illustration school. More of an illustration course about design and illustration than most other websites.
Illustration has been around since the cave paintings of Lascaux, France. An illustration, properly made by the illustrator, seeks to clarify, or show more clearly the idea or subject being talked or written about, perhaps in a book or magazine. The actual definition in some dictionaries of illustration is "to clarify."
                                                                    
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 the 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.
The Visual Literacy Program has instructional videos that are here for you when you need them. Podcasts to learn from, and a Member Forum, as well as a Member Image Gallery to share your work. With a subscription, a member can post an image in our Monthly Illustration contest. Share your work and read input from other members and faculty. Get a head start on your career with a subscription to the Visual Literacy Program. It is an education about magazine illustration, book illustrations, computer and digital work. Freelance illustration is also addressed in the forum, as other aspects of illustrating fashion or using pen and ink. Your input is important to others in the Member Forum and Member Image Gallery. Check out our Monthly Illustration contest! Great prizes are offered to the winners of the Monthly Illustration contest. A graphic illustrator can learn from the Member Forum and the Member Image Gallery. The work that is submitted is amazing! 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.
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