Character Concepting/Comic Illustration courses in (or near) London

Torch

Hi all, I've been doing a lot of sketching/painting for a while now and have been studying Loomis and Bridgman as well as other books like Hogarth's work. I also wanted to branch out a little more and would like to try some stylised art similar to that of the comic style's of Darksiders and Creaturebox, as well as gain a firm grounding in the fundamentals like color theory, perspective, etc.

I was searching a while this afternoon and found a few short courses, but wanted to see if anyone had experience with a concept art course within the London area at all? I guess the best way to put it is something like Escape Studios but more for concept and traditional artwork. I also found a few good online courses but just wanted to see if anyone's attended a good course they could recommend here first. Any advice appreciated, thanks :thumbup:

EDIT: Forgot to say preferably a short course, not looking to do a degree or anything like that

Torch

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Torch

Just thought I'd necro this thread with an update - so I found a few good courses online rather than studying at colleges in London, a year diploma with the FZD school looked awesome - http://www.fzdschool.com/index.html ...but was pretty damn pricey, so it would need consideration.

The other places I looked at were the concept design academy and CGMA ( http://www.cgmwmasterclasses.com ) which I'm swaying more toward. If anyone had experience with these I'd love to hear more about them. Thanks

Julmust

I would recommend not attending schools without industry veteran teachers and proven track record. It really needs to be stressed that if you're just going to some cash-in school then you're better off studying on your own.

Read Loomis "creative illustration", it will probably give your more info than any mediocre school will ever be able to give you.