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Concept Art Illustration Training

Develop your artistic and technical skills with a complete 3-year course after a preparatory year, combining theoretical and practical learning.
As an Illustrator, the Illustration Concept Art Professional Cycle will give you the keys to creating worlds in different areas of entertainment, from Video Games to Animated Film and Comics.

  • PERIOD

    1 year, full-time, classroom-based

  • Hours of lessons/year

    800 hours of teaching

  • Evaluation

    Continuous assessment, evaluation of projects and knowledge
    Final assessment: end-of-year cross-disciplinary project
    Oral presentation of the year's artistic work.

  • Prerequisite

    Bac (all subjects) or equivalent level 4 qualification
    Examination of academic record and interview

Preparatory Year Design

What if transforming the future was just a stroke of the pen?

Through a solid grounding in the basics and fundamentals, the preparatory year in Design is an opportunity to experiment with all aspects of applied art and to discover the diversity of the professions involved.

If you have a baccalaureate (all subjects), the Prépa Design is open to you with a view to joining our Professional Cycle in Illustration Concept Art.

At ESMA we take
success seriously.

  • 98% Certification success rate (2022)

  • 75% Job entry rate at 6 months (2022)

  • 99% Rate of submission for certification (2022)

What does this preparatory year involve?

You have the passion
We teach technique.

Throughout the year, the key word is artistic practice: plastic expression, drawing, colour and form, visual arts, etc.

Everything is done to enable students to acquire a solid grounding in applied arts and drawing, through a complementary approach combining vocational and technical teaching.

By the end of this preparatory year, our students will have built up the perfect methodological, graphic, cultural and technical toolbox to enable them to become the professionals of tomorrow.

Discover the associated professions

Our teachings

Your objectives

  • Acquire the technical and creative foundations through drawing practice
  • Refine your critical eye and analytical skills
  • Assimilate a methodology for work, research and creation specific to design
  • Develop the skills needed to develop personal graphic and visual worlds as part of a design project.

Further studies

  • Professional Illustration Concept Art Cycle

    Year 1

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  • Professional Interior Design Cycle

    Year 1

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  • Les métiers du Design Graphique Plurimédia

    Multi-media Graphic Design Professional Cycle

    Year 1

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The achievements
of students

When they outdo each other, it doesn't go unnoticed!


Any other questions?

Contact the Campus Education Manager for further information.

The curriculum

Illustration Concept Art

A year's training in preparation for certification