Digital Painting Courses
Specialized online digital painting courses to prepare you for an exciting career in the entertainment industry
Student work by Gonzo Apestegui
Study illustration and concept art
Learn illustration and concept art from award-winning artists
Turn your artistic passion into a career with our beginner and advanced digital painting programs. With an established digital artist as your guide, you'll discover how to plan, develop and present compelling industry-standard artwork using Adobe Photoshop, and graduate with original art for your portfolio. Traditional artists welcome!
Benefits of studying digital painting at CG Spectrum:
- Be mentored by established film and game artists
- Discover your niche and build your portfolio
- Active online community to support you
- Software licenses included in course
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At CG Spectrum digital art school, your career training includes direct access to some of the best digital artists who will share their experience working with clients like Marvel, Scholastic and Blizzard. Besides learning expert digital painting techniques, you'll also learn critical job skills such as how to market yourself and build lasting client relationships.
DIGITAL PAINTING COURSES
CG Spectrum has given me the skills I need to make my art a professional career.
I've always wanted to pursue training in concept art, but living rurally I never had the opportunity to do so, until I came across CG Spectrum. The online learning capacity allowed me to study from home. My mentor gave me detailed critiques, not just pointing out flaws, but painting over and showing how to improve them. I was always encouraged to push the envelope, and gained valuable insight into the industry. A fantastic school, I highly recommend it!
I honestly couldn’t have had a better experience with the classes.
I got an hour each week of dedicated one on one time with the mentor. He would give me critiques and paint overs of my work. The paint overs from a professional are the biggest benefit in my opinion. Not only are the classes immensely helpful, the staff are quick to answer emails and they even went out of their way to send my certificates to colleges here in the USA, which helped me get accepted to some of the top art schools on the east coast.
Training with a mentor 1-on-1 was instrumental in learning what to expect in the industry.
Shortly after completing the course, I landed several long term projects. I'm very grateful for the time and patience my mentors gave me. Highly recommend CG Spectrum to anyone looking to learn new skills or up their game in the digital art world.
Brandon Reimchen
Brandon brings almost 20 years of experience as a video game concept artist with a long client list that includes EA, Activision, Capcom, Gree, and Disney Interactive.
Read full bioManager of Digital Painting
Known for Resident Evil
Eric Wilkerson
Eric is an illustrator/concept artist for film, TV, advertising, publishing, comics and games. Clients include Wizards of the Coast (Magic: The Gathering), Weta Workshop, Marvel, Upper Deck, Scholastic and Disney.
Read full bioMentor of Illustration
Known for Magic: The Gathering
Esther Wu
Triple-A game concept artist Esther has worked on titles like Forza 6, Destiny 2, Call of Duty Black Ops 4, and Back 4 Blood while at studios like Turn10, 2K Games, High Moon, and Turtle Rock Studios.
Read full bioMentor of Concept Art
Known for Back 4 Blood
Tyler James
Award-winning artist Tyler has worked with major clients like Cryptozoic and Blizzard on titles including Heroes of the Storm, Warhammer, Rift, Star Wars, Hex, Warcraft, and RWBY.
Read full bioMentor of Concept Art
Known for World of Warcraft TCG
Mike Thompson
Award-winning artist Mike has worked with clients such as Marvel, Hasbro, Dimension Films, HBO, Electronic Arts, Warner Bros, Mattel, DC Comics and Cartoon Network.
Read full bioMentor of Concept Art
Known for Black Panther
Vicki Sarkissian
Vicki's worked as an artist at companies like Turbine/WB Games, Proleteriat Inc., and Moonshot Games. Titles include: Infinite Crisis, Game of Thrones: Conquest, and Spellbreak.
Read full bioMentor of Concept Art
Known for Spellbreak
Brian Huang
Art director and concept artist who has worked on PC/mobile games at studios such as Blizzard. Brian's work has influenced games like World of Warcraft, Starcraft II and Diablo 3.
Read full bioMentor of Concept Art
Known for Star Craft II
Bernie Kang
Now art director at Phoenix One, Bernie created creatures, characters, weapons and FX concepts for cinematic trailers for World of Warcraft and more while at Blizzard.
Read full bioMentor of Concept Art
Known for World of Warcraft
Humza Khan
Humza has worked for EA, Microsoft, Activision, LucasArts, Wargaming, Ubisoft, Fischer Price, Hasbro, Mattel. Credits include: Call of Duty, The Division 2, and the Sims.
Read full bioMentor of Concept Art
Known for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Imery Watson
Imery's first job out of school was on the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 20 years on he's still working as concept designer and art director with top clients like Universal, Paramount, Warner Brothers, and Disney.
Read full bioMentor of Concept Art
Known for Warner Bros, Universal, Disney
