The Virtual Art Academy Reviews

(based on 12 reviews)

28 of 58 people found this review helpful

Whether you like this course will depend on how much feedback you want. The curriculum and the chronology is sound, although the reading assignments are pretty shallow and the video demonstrations are quite bad. However, it's easy enough to Google better explanations of various concepts, and YouTube has hundreds of demonstrations of similar topics that are vastly more professional and helpful, so that's ok. Although each reading assignment is followed by "you can master this topic by doing the following workshop", you of course will not master it so easily. But if you are realistic and willing to practice a lot outside the course curriculum, you will improve.

The feedback (or lack of it) is the biggest failing of this course. I am well into my 4th year of course content, and I have had feedback from Barry Raybould exactly once (and it was pretty basic feedback, too). Sometimes other students give feedback, and sometimes that feedback is helpful, but the opinions of other students who in many instances have even less experience than I do is not really worth the price of admission. Feedback, and early correction of misconceptions before they become habits, is absolutely essential to improving. Each time... (Read the full review)

In summary, I would not recommend The Virtual Art Academy to a friend.