Our manga courses for teens offer budding artists the chance to explore the rich world of Japan’s most popular cultural export in a group of like-minded peers and with guidance from professional artists. Students will get to draw characters from their favorite series and try a variety of popular styles, all while developing the fundamentals necessary to create original characters and manga with their own unique artistic voices.
With several courses offered each semester, we have options suited to both complete beginners and experienced artists.
Fall 2025 Classes:
Story to Panel to Page – Making a Manga
6 Mondays, Oct 27 – Dec 1, 2025, 5:30-6:30 PM ET
Whether you have a story you’re ready to get down on the page or want to learn how to come up with an original idea, this is the class for you! You’ll learn how to create your own manga, with guidance every step of the way: from brainstorming and scripting your concept, to storyboarding a full manga and laying out the panels for each page. Make a one-shot comic, or the start of the next hit series—the choice is yours!
Pose, Proportion, Gesture — Anatomy for Manga Artists
6 Thursdays, Oct 9 – Nov 13, 2025, 5:30-6:30 PM ET
Join us for this 6-session fall course to level up your figure drawing technique. We will focus on sharpening our understanding of human anatomy and how it can help us draw a variety of dynamic and complex poses. Experienced artists will benefit from mastering this foundational skill as we sketch characters from hit series—as well as our own original creations!
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