Certificate in Comics and Narrative Arts

Earn a professional certificate in Comics & Narrative Arts from the school that taught legends Will Eisner, Ramona Fradon, Milton Glaser, Jamal Igle, Al Jaffe, Jack Kamen, Bob Kane, Walt Kelly, Maurice Sendak, Mark Texeira, Jack Davis, and more! 

The Art Students League of New York’s two-year program allows artists to earn a Certificate of Fine Arts that demonstrates the skills needed to build your career in comics, animation, game development and more. Artists in this program will take a combination of classes and workshops that cover topics including: Advanced Drawing and Artistic Anatomy, Comics and Sequential Art, Character Design, Art for Animation, Storytelling and Storyboarding, Conventions and Networking, Portfolio Development, Publishing, Exhibitions.

This program’s accomplished instructors are industry professionals who will work one-on-one with artists to guide them through their first year of foundational skill-building with a heavy emphasis on drawing, and their second year of concentrated study and mentorship. 

Our first cohort of artists is assembling! Apply now to begin courses this September. Application deadline: August 15, 2023, 11:59pm. Apply via Submittable.

The Art Students League of New York was founded in 1875 by a group of art students who had the revolutionary idea that a fine art education should be accessible to all. In the nearly one hundred and fifty years since, the League has built a legacy as a school where a diverse community of artists are inspired to produce work that reflects their full potential. Hundreds of history-making artists studied or taught at the League, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Hans Hoffman, Charles White, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Al Hirschfeld, Barnett Newman, Norman Lewis, David Smith, Mavis Pusey, Roy Lichtenstein, Romare Bearden, James Rosenquist, Adrian Piper, Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, Pacita Abad, Lee Bontecou, Ai Weiwei, and more.