Online Illustration Degree

Everything about Academy of Art University is designed to prepare you for a career as a professional illustrator. Our online illustration degree programs are no different.

As an online illustration student, you work with the same expert instructors to gain the same hands-on training and real-world illustration industry expertise as our onsite students. You are part of a vibrant creative community, interacting with engaging online coursework that includes original instructional videos, audio-enhanced slideshows, digital documentation, interviews with field experts, and much more.

Don’t let a busy schedule get in the way of your education. Earn an illustration degree on your time, at your pace, and in the classroom of your choice. Our interactive online courses and dynamic instructional videos make it easy to immerse yourself in our custom curriculum.

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How Online Courses Work at the Academy

The Academy provides the coursework—including beautifully produced videos, narrated slideshows, digital documents, interviews with experts, livestreams and more. As you complete assignments, you simply upload your work to the Academy’s custom-designed Learning Management System (LMS) where it’s shared with your class, and your instructor can leave visual markups, video, written and recorded feedback

Your Information Hub

Visual, interactive and dynamic. You will find all your classes, profiles, news, assignments, grades, ESL support, support, and more in the LMS. All tailored to make your online education rich and engaging.

Your Collaborative Space

Freely exchange thoughts, post work, and provide or receive constructive feedback—just like you would in a campus environment. You and your peers support and push each other, creating long-lasting connections that live beyond the course. You may not be on campus, but you’re not alone.

Your Studio & Gallery

Submit your artwork for evaluation, and if you’d like, include audio, video, and written descriptions of the work. Instructors provide detailed feedback in the same way.

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Online Overview

Our revolutionary online courses provide the same rigorous education that we offer on campus with greater flexibility. Our online programs are purpose-built to deliver art and design courses. Study on your own time, at your own pace. Combine online and on-site classes.

3 Reasons Our Online Platform is Best

Custom Content

Created in-house by industry experts and exclusive to the Academy, the classes are a mix of lecture content, video, written content, recorded audio, interactive slideshows, and hands-on work. We built this from the ground-up and geared specifically towards art and design. We’re constantly innovating our curriculum created by instructional designers and industry professionals, as well as building new courses, reworking old ones, and adding features to our LMS based on student feedback.

Dedicated Support

Over 100 Academy of Art employees create and support online programs, dedicating more resources into production than any other. They work 24 hours a day to offer 900+ online courses spanning 35 online majors, using 1,500 instructional videos per semester to teach students from 50+ countries.

Community Support

AAUHOO, a student-run Facebook group, has more than 6,000 members and welcomes you to join this thriving online community. Other channels and venues for student socialization and interaction include online social media & blogs; online library, music library, learning tutorials; career advice, support & mentor chats, one-on-one sessions with your director, on-demand demonstration videos, town hall meetings, VIP guest speaker series and archives, director Q&A, VIP guest speakers, live-streamed events & presentations, workshops, support, digital portfolio showcase, and much more.

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“Taking classes online really benefited me as a student in allowing me to hone in on each of my skills and develop them before I got a job in the industry.”

Mark Cofer
MFA Music Production & Sound Design for Visual Media / Film Composer

Online Demo

Hand-Lettering from Type

Students will learn how to take typography and turn it into beautiful lettering.