THE 5 BEST ONLINE ART SCHOOLS 2021

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0:00 Why I chose online art school
20:34 NMA.art

These are the 5 best online art schools that I've tried personally (and I've tried over a dozen). The criteria I used for making this list are that the school has a great roster of classes, exceptional teaching, it offers a subscription (monthly and yearly) and that subscription plan has to be affordable (below $100/month. All of the art schools that I chose are well below that).

Here are the online art schools I chose:

* What it is: a school that offers projects and instruction on mastering a diverse range of specific mediums.

* What stands out: You can learn the basics (and often much more) about just about every medium on the planet here.

* Who it's great for: hobbyists, beginner artists, artists who want to break out of an art block and artists who want to learn the basics of a specific medium that's new to them.

* What it is: A school that offers courses in fundamentals and specialty classes, like illustrating appealing characters and environment design.

* What stands out: Its fun classes that are jam-packed with info.

* Who it's great for: All artists can find something here, but it's especially helpful for intermediate and advanced artists. Artists wanting to break out of an art block or a style rut will enjoy the school's diverse classes and fun style.

* What it is: A school that offers classes on core principles like light, perspective, etc., as well as a heft selection of animation classes and specialty classes in anatomy, character design and nature drawing/painting.

* What stands out: Its comprehensive and well taught human and animal anatomy courses and its animation courses.

* Who it's great for: Artists at all levels will find something here, but it's especially helpful for intermediate and advanced artists to level up their skills. Artists who are planning to/already work in the entertainment/animation or illustration industries would especially love and get a lot from this site.

* What it is: A school that offers specialized courses for artists pursuing a particular area of the art industry like character design, creature design, book illustration, etc., as well solidifying core principles like light, perspective, etc.

* What stands out: Its roster of huge-name artists from the entertainment & gaming industries who are teaching.

* Who it's great for: Intermediate and advanced artists will benefit the most from classes here. Artists who are planning to/already work in the entertainment or gaming industries would especially love and get a lot from this site.

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1. New Masters Academy: NMA.art

* What it is: A school that offers the option of either pursuing particular art tracks, just like you would in an in-person art school or taking the classes that interest you (or both). The school emphasizes solidifying the core fundamentals like figure drawing, anatomy, perspective, etc. and offers a vast array of classes to help do that, as well as a huge number of additional classes in supporting topics, such as animal anatomy, landscape painting, character design, etc.

* What stands out: The volume of comprehensive courses; The ability to follow a course/career track from beginning to end; and the titans of the art industry teaching.

* Who it's great for: Artists of all skill levels. It's especially geared toward the serious art student. They have a full section for beginners to get started with fundamentals and intermediate & advanced artists will find more than enough to help them hone, refresh and level up skills. Any artist following or interested in pursuing a career in fine art, illustration or entertainment will especially love the classes here.

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[peggywickham]

I was so interested in becoming an artist until I was a sophomore in high school. I took a design class and said to the teache, "I want to go to college and major in art". She kept on erasing the chalk board and said, without looking at me, "don't bother."
It took me another 25 years to take a college level course in drawing. Drawing is not my favorite thing but that professor was life changing for me, as he told me to go and "just DO it!" So I did. After graduation it took another 17 years (when my youngest graduated from high school) to actually work on becoming a professional artist but here I am at 73 years old and loving every minute of my ability to work as an artist and sell my work. I'm a poster child for not listening to the negative feedback from even teachers you respect.

[ravenshadowz]

You should check evolve artist training course, you pay for the foundation course, you're given all your oil painting supplies, you just have to furnish the easel, there are no monthly payments other than the monthly 12 payment plan. Other than that you have no monthly fees and an instructor will grade your work.

[alvh]

Our stories are so similar, I’m well into my 30s and just picked up the pencil again after 17 years!! Never to late 🙏 thank you for the reminder!!

[path]

I had a love of art when I was in school and I wanted to be a Commercial artist. But my parent was against it. They said a black artist will never be hired in the 1980s. So I swiched to a nursing course and over the years my artist spark died. Nursing was just a 12 hour job, but I had no time for art. Now that I am retired I am trying to find that love again but it is not easy.

[asenwolf]

omg thanks for making this!!! i wasn't sure where to start looking and this was super helpful

[amysbees]

I can fully understand giving up on art. I have struggled with this for quite some time. My lack of confidence (from a lack of training) is crushing.
I hope you've successfully resumed your artistic journey!🎨

[acatinthecradle]

Great Video! I was a member of the virtual instructor for quite a while and it helped me trendously! I'll be glad to check out some of the others as I'm always eager to learn more. Thank you so much for this!

[irinaiakovleva]

Thanks a lot! I subscribed to NMA because of your video

[synystrsoul]

Have to agree about The Virtual Instructor. Very good instructor, and plenty of refence material. I havent tried the others but will look into it. Thanks for the push! :-)

[rachelalley]

Thanks very much for the video. I got a Bachelor of Fine Arts, but it really didn't give me adequate skills to become the artist I want to be. I spent the last couple of decades busy with family and now want to get back into it so this is helpful.

[Michellew]

Thank you so much for making this video, it really helped me out a ton :D

[JasonEyermann]

Thanks so much for this video. So useful

[milagroslizarraga]

Thank you so much for making this video. You has helped me a lot cause I am where you were at the beggining and I didn't know how to start, so thank you. ♥

[sandycovington]

What's nice about creature art teacher is that you only have to pay once and you own the course forever. So your subscription can expire, but you can still watch the courses you saved.

[elizabethbennett]

Thank you for the helpful information🙂

[antares]

Schoolism is insane, I subbed for a year like 8 years ago, and it was filled to the brim with knowledge
Can't imagine all the content they've added through all this time

[SebastianGarcia-gotx]

I'm not even done with the video and I'm already impressed by the quality of it !!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯

[threesisterscomanonbenade]

Your beginning of your story is the story of my life...

[sachinkhanna]

Hi, i really liked ur recommendation for New Masters Academy...i love the way you explained about all the websites..
i m Sachin Khanna from India ..i m planning to shutdown my clothing business and go after my passion...i do pencil sketching. could u pls let me know which direction i should choose to a professional artist.

thanks for ur wonderful helpful video.

[AhamBrahmasmi_]

A little more expensive, but life changing : Milan Art Institute. 🙏🏽