Diploma in
Concept Art

Design Your Destiny

FROM CHARACTER DESIGNER TO STORYBOARD ARTIST

The Diploma in Concept Art at USV is your all-access pass to leveling up your drawing, digital painting, and visual storytelling skills — whether you’re sketching in the studio or from home. It’s not just about creating stunning characters and environments — it’s also your launchpad toward a Bachelor’s Degree at USV.

PROGRAM OFFERED ON-CAMPUS AND ONLINE

Here’s the lowdown:

Earn Your Concept Art Diploma: Dive into drawing fundamentals, digital imaging, character design, storyboarding, and more — and come out the other side with a diploma built for your creative career.
Start Your Concept Art Career: From character designer to storyboard artist, get ready to build the portfolio that’ll open doors in games, animation, and film.
Stack Credits Toward Your Bachelor’s: Big creative dreams? This diploma is designed to flow straight into USV’s Bachelor of Arts in Digital Art & Animation, so you can keep leveling up.

Concept Art Diploma Highlights & Outcomes

DRAWING & RENDERING PRINCIPLES

Build a strong foundation in traditional drawing techniques, focusing on form, perspective, and rendering to bring your ideas to life on paper.

DIGITAL IMAGING & PAINTING

Enhance your skills with industry-standard tools to turn sketches into polished digital art, exploring color, lighting, and texture for game and animation projects.

CHARACTER & ENVIRONMENT DESIGN

Learn to design compelling characters and immersive environments, developing portfolio-ready pieces that showcase your storytelling skills.

STORYBOARDING & VISUAL SEQUENCING

Gain practical experience planning visual narratives through storyboarding and sequential art, a key skill for animation and film pre-production.

Join Our Alumni Hall of Fame

USV alumni have gone on to work at some of the most prestigious music, film and video game recording studios in their respective industries.

CONCEPT ART CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Your Experience Just Got Real

Concept Artist
Character Designer
Storyboard Artist
Environment Designer
Illustrator
Production Artist
Digital Artist
Visual Development Assistant
Junior Illustrator
Sketch Artist
Background Artist
Layout Artist
Comic Artist

DO YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO CREATE CONCEPT ART?

USV's Learning Approach

At USV, full-time students take 3 courses per term versus the traditional 4 courses per term. Why is this important to our students? Our learning approach allows our students to have improved retention and increased engagement of course material, better work-life balance, reduced stress, and a more successful path to graduation.

That’s the USV difference.

The University of Silicon Valley:
The USV Difference

3 COURSES / TERM
(12 Credits)

Cognitive

Deeper learning.
Improved retention and increased engagement with material.

Well-Being

Reduced stress and a better schoolwork-life experience.

Success

Better opportunity to complete your degree and be prepared for employment opportunities.

Other Universities:
The Traditional Approach

4 COURSES / TERM
(12 Credits)

More courses means the possibility for more stress, less time for hobbies or other responsibilities, and a greater effort to retain course material.

Students may not graduate on time or be as successful in their classes.

Learn more about our Concept Art School

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