Courses in Comics and Graphic Novels by SAW's Top Educators

PAY WHAT YOU WANT E-Book! Get moving with Tom Hart's opus on freeing your creative self. A book about creativity, comics, writing with pictures, & staying engaged with your medium. Our most popular content with more than 3,000 downloads!

Loosen up and flow through your own ideas and images. 8 session, 5-Week Class starts again Sept 17, 2018.

Always Enrolling. Stay loose and productive with this group of sequential art monsters from all over the SAW community. Weekly exercises, teacher input & a wealth of rich, engaging, learning content all for you when you enroll for a month or more.

The Art of Telling Your Personal Story in Comics. This self-guided course of videos and exercises will help you on your way.

Always Enrolling. Shine a light on your ideas and memories in this intensive interactive working class in creating your graphic memoir. Sliding scale monthly pricing.

ALWAYS ENROLLING. Teacher input in SAW Group. Do you have good work waiting to be adapted to comics? This course helps you make that transition from prose to sequential art.

Looking directly at the most emotionally direct material. Words, drawings, honesty, transmutation, valences, and a little bit of lying in service of emotional power. A full community-based class.

Comics Bootcamp for serious students of comic book and sequential art. Apply now for 2018-19. This course of free materials tells you what you need to know!

Full Instructor Input. Go beyond hesitation, confusion and fear and learn to master drawing in ink line. Begins again April 2018

How to create more depth and details in your drawings without losing clarity.

Work from literacy to mastery of brush and ink in this 6-week intensive with SAW master instructor Justine Andersen.

Want to learn to paint in lush, vibrant gouache? Struggling to figure out how to mix colors? Let Jess Ruliffson show you!

Drawing detailed and accurate one-point perspective drawings is harder than it looks. In this 2-video mini-course, Jason Little shows you all you need to be able to understand one-point perspective.

Guiding you through the entire creation of a comic strip: idea building, drawing, lettering and coloring

A free course in understanding comics through the graphic novel, The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan

SAW's (evergrowing) free library of hints, tricks, techniques and inspirations. Sign in and browse around!

In this free 30 minute video, Jason Little demonstrates how to look at and draw a horse.

Take your research, interviews and journalistic materials and turn them into vibrant graphic storytelling. Full instructor input.

Learn joke-craft, brevity, pacing, drawing, and the secrets of the New Yorker Gag Cartoon here with E. Flake! Full instructor input.

Loosen up and flow through your own ideas and images. 8 session, 6-Week Class starts again May 14, 2018.