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For more than 75 years, SVA has been the training ground for some of the most celebrated artists in cartooning. Today’s multicultural influences, ambitious new formats, and an ever-expanding audience have made comics, apart from being a powerful industry with some of the most devoted fans, a deeply respected language of sequential expression, art discipline, field of study and career.
While studying comics, an artist’s goal is finding a clear path from their passion for storytelling to developing their artistic voice and realizing their ideas. Here, you build a portfolio that reflects your vision, style, capabilities, and talent, effectively introducing you to this fascinating and diverse industry. From graphic novels to autobiographical stories, to experimental, superhero, underground comics – in print or online – your studies help you master plot development, building dramatic narrative tension, sequential action, rendering, and coloring your stories. Legendary faculty, along with some of the hottest property creators, lead you through this process panel after panel.
SVA's instructors, teaching plan, and approach create a unique environment where a student’s intellectual and technical skills are evolved and perfected in tandem. Writing and plot development along with fundamentals in composition, perspective, figure drawing, penciling, inking, panel layout, traditional and digital coloring, lettering, and production, contribute to the competitive skill set responsible for our award-winning students and alumni.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Art and Design
Degree
BFA
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
For more than 75 years, SVA has been the training ground for some of the most celebrated artists in cartooning. Today’s multicultural influences, ambitious new formats, and an ever-expanding audience have made comics, apart from being a powerful industry with some of the most devoted fans, a deeply respected language of sequential expression, art discipline, field of study and career.
While studying comics, an artist’s goal is finding a clear path from their passion for storytelling to developing their artistic voice and realizing their ideas. Here, you build a portfolio that reflects your vision, style, capabilities, and talent, effectively introducing you to this fascinating and diverse industry. From graphic novels to autobiographical stories, to experimental, superhero, underground comics – in print or online – your studies help you master plot development, building dramatic narrative tension, sequential action, rendering, and coloring your stories. Legendary faculty, along with some of the hottest property creators, lead you through this process panel after panel.
SVA's instructors, teaching plan, and approach create a unique environment where a student’s intellectual and technical skills are evolved and perfected in tandem. Writing and plot development along with fundamentals in composition, perspective, figure drawing, penciling, inking, panel layout, traditional and digital coloring, lettering, and production, contribute to the competitive skill set responsible for our award-winning students and alumni.
Scholarships
Selecting the right scholarship can be a daunting process. With countless options available, students often find themselves overwhelmed and confused. The decision can be especially stressful for those facing financial constraints or pursuing specific academic or career goals.
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Programme overview
Main Subject
Art and Design
Degree
BFA
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
While studying comics, an artist’s goal is finding a clear path from their passion for storytelling to developing their artistic voice and realizing their ideas. Here, you build a portfolio that reflects your vision, style, capabilities, and talent, effectively introducing you to this fascinating and diverse industry. From graphic novels to autobiographical stories, to experimental, superhero, underground comics – in print or online – your studies help you master plot development, building dramatic narrative tension, sequential action, rendering, and coloring your stories. Legendary faculty, along with some of the hottest property creators, lead you through this process panel after panel.
SVA's instructors, teaching plan, and approach create a unique environment where a student’s intellectual and technical skills are evolved and perfected in tandem. Writing and plot development along with fundamentals in composition, perspective, figure drawing, penciling, inking, panel layout, traditional and digital coloring, lettering, and production, contribute to the competitive skill set responsible for our award-winning students and alumni.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Art and Design
Degree
BFA
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
While studying comics, an artist’s goal is finding a clear path from their passion for storytelling to developing their artistic voice and realizing their ideas. Here, you build a portfolio that reflects your vision, style, capabilities, and talent, effectively introducing you to this fascinating and diverse industry. From graphic novels to autobiographical stories, to experimental, superhero, underground comics – in print or online – your studies help you master plot development, building dramatic narrative tension, sequential action, rendering, and coloring your stories. Legendary faculty, along with some of the hottest property creators, lead you through this process panel after panel.
SVA's instructors, teaching plan, and approach create a unique environment where a student’s intellectual and technical skills are evolved and perfected in tandem. Writing and plot development along with fundamentals in composition, perspective, figure drawing, penciling, inking, panel layout, traditional and digital coloring, lettering, and production, contribute to the competitive skill set responsible for our award-winning students and alumni.
Scholarships
Selecting the right scholarship can be a daunting process. With countless options available, students often find themselves overwhelmed and confused. The decision can be especially stressful for those facing financial constraints or pursuing specific academic or career goals.
To help students navigate this challenging process, we recommend the following articles:
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