FALL 2020

interactive small classes once a week for 14 Weeks with two teachers

enrollment closed
  • Comic Covers, Book Covers & Dynamic Storytelling
  • Special industry guest: Irene Gallo, Publisher of Tor.com
  • Wed 8-11pm       Eastern Time
  • September 9 through end of December or January*
  • 14 students max
  • $2500
  • Includes FREE survey of any other mentorship
To survey without full mentorship $495 Survey Only-Fall 2020, Click Here
​If you need a payment plan there's PAYPAL Bill Me Later interest-free credit HERE
*SmArt School teachers sometimes have to travel for professional reasons. If they must miss a class they will notify all students during class time and add a session to the end of the calendar. No class is held during Thanksgiving, Illuxcon Week**, or between Christmas and New Years. All Classes meet live and are not recorded due to proprietary content. Teaching will not happen via email, only during class time.

**At the time of the spring enrollment, ILLUXCON was still planning to meet, but has since been cancelled-check in with your individual teacher when classes begin to fin out if they will teach through this week or be staying with the above week off.

Book and Comic Covers, Dynamic Narrative and Storytelling 

In this new format we are introducing for fall 2020 two masters of the craft jointly provide interactive demonstrations on technique and provide feedback on student work. Each teacher shares their own perspective. This makes for an extraordinarily rich learning environment as the students engage in a fourteen week creative relationship with both of them. In addition to giving weekly assignments tailored to each student Scott and Greg will introduce the class to an industry professional. Students will receive feedback from that industry professional at the end of the semester.
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​After taking this class students will also receive a free profile on the Smarter Art Market, a destination for art directors and collectors.

About Scott Fischer

​​Scott Fischer’s illustration has won acclaim in many parts of the contemporary illustration world.  He has illustrated multiple #1 New York Times best selling books, including Peter Pan in Scarlet, Between the Lines, and the Magesterium series. He has produced numerous comic covers for Dark Horse comics’ Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise. His book cover clients include: Simon & Schuster, Tor, Harper Collins, Scholastic, Penguin, Del Rey, Random House, and Daw. He has illustrated three children’s books for Simon & Schuster including Jump, which has three million copies in print. Scott is also well known for his gaming illustration for clients including Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, World of Warcraft, and League of Legends. As a concept artist he has worked for Microsoft, Disney’s Tron franchise, and Cartoon Network.

About Greg Manchess

During Greg's forty year long illustration career his artwork has graced movies, book covers, magazines, advertising campaigns, and the walls of galleries and museums. His illustration clients include: National Geographic, Time, Atlantic Monthly, the Smithsonian, and the U.S. Postal service. He exhibits regularly at the Society of Illustrators and has earned their highest honor, the Hamilton King Award. He also has regular solo shows at Galerie Daniel Maghen in Paris. Greg’s paintings featured prominently in the Cohen Brother’s 2018 movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. In 2017 Greg's book Above the Timberline was published by Simon & Schuster. For this work Greg created 124 oil paintings, thirty of which were then organized into a solo exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum.  Greg’s work is included in Walter Reed’s definitive history of illustration The Illustrator in America 1860-2000.
Scott Fischer's Website: https://www.scottmfischer.com/
Some of the artists who studied with Scott now have pages on Smarter Art Market. Everyone can have a portfolio page after they've finished a mentorship beyond the beginner level or attended an IMC. If you qualify email smarterartmarket@gmail to join.
​Mariah Tekulve, Allen Panakal, Mary Haasdyk, Ashley Hankins, Ben Hill, Christine Rhee, Yanqing Low, April Gormley, Kim Dingwall, Paige Carpenter, Sarah Finnigan, Tia Kinsman
Greg Manchess's Website: https://www.manchess.com/
Some of the artists who studied with Greg now have pages on Smarter Art Market. Everyone can have a portfolio page after they've finished a mentorship beyond the beginner level or attended an IMC. If you qualify email smarterartmarket@gmail to join.
Jenn Ravenna, John Anthony Di Giovanni, Ryan Pearse, Bernard Lee, Doug Hoppes, Ruwen Liu, Colin Boyer, Agam Neiman, Chuck Grieb, Judd Mercer