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Student Artwork by Audrey Quinton

Course Prices

Inside UK

£400.00

Outside UK

£425.00

Instalments UK & International

£400.00 in 4 instalments at £100.00 each

International students will not be supplied with a paper copy

Cartooning Online Art Course

Tutored by John Byrne

Bring your cartoons to life! Whether you’re cartooning for fun or starting out on a new career, the Cartooning Diploma Course is the first step toward bringing your cartoon world to life. Caricatures, comics, or satire, if you’ve got a passion for cartoons, the Cartooning Diploma Course will teach you the skills you need to excel.

Observe your artistic progress as we lead you through various cartooning techniques. Cultivate and refine your unique style with the guidance of our expert tutor in this meticulously designed course. Enhance your skills through hands-on experience and constructive feedback provided by our course tutor while working on your assignments. You will receive personalized feedback, valuable insights, and guidance tailored to your specific strengths and areas for improvement.

Our course is a comprehensive learning experience, covering essential concepts and progressively building your skills. With 28 written units covering everything from colour and perspective to features and expressions, you’ll learn a range of skills that can dramatically improve your work. Many study units have video demonstrations by the tutor to guide you through the course.


Course subjects include:

  • Getting started
  • Basic techniques
  • Colour and perspective
  • The art of humour
  • Cartoon layouts
  • Children
  • Animals & birds in cartoons
  • Figure drawing
  • Heads & eyes
  • Features & expressions
  • Character identification
  • Main joke formats
  • Strip cartoons
  • Caricatures
  • The course is supported with 5 videos

  • The course also includes advice on promoting your work and developing contacts and opportunities.

    Our tutors have been helping cartoonists for over 75 years. London Art College started out as a teaching school in Fleet Street – the heart of the UK’s press. Since then our tutors have been helping students develop their cartooning skills with personalised help and advice. The critiques help you understand your strengths, identify areas for improvement, and refine your cartooning techniques.

    Typically, the course can be finished within one year, but we offer a generous allowance of up to two years, ensuring a relaxed and flexible learning experience without any time constraints 

    So begin your journey into a brighter and more colourful cartooning future today. Click on the link below for course prices and start a Cartooning Diploma Course with London Art College.

    All our courses are written to be your comprehensive guide into each of their subject matters. We understand that students appreciate clarification about various aspects of their work from a course tutor, whom provide reassurance that techniques are put into practice effectively. 

    Each courses has its own dedicated Tutor. The tutor keeps the course up to date and relevant to today's students. They are available to the individual student for advice and encouragement. Each course has regular exercises and assignments that are constructed in such a way as to give the student the opportunity to practice the techniques learnt on the course and to test themselves as they go along. Students are encouraged to submit the assignment work to the college for the tutor to critique.

    The student's work will be returned together with the tutor's personal critique. On many courses the assignment work may be suitable for inclusion in a student's Portfolio of Work that could be very useful later. The college will use the assignments submitted as the basis for any award of a letter, certificate or diploma.

    Student Artwork (detail) by Daniel Brown

    All our courses are written to be your comprehensive guide into each of their subject matters. We understand that students appreciate clarification about various aspects of their work from a course tutor, whom provide reassurance that techniques are put into practice effectively. 

    Each courses has its own dedicated Tutor. The tutor keeps the course up to date and relevant to today's students. They are available to the individual student for advice and encouragement. Each course has regular exercises and assignments that are constructed in such a way as to give the student the opportunity to practice the techniques learnt on the course and to test themselves as they go along. Students are encouraged to submit the assignment work to the college for the tutor to critique.

    Coursework can be submitted online, as digital photographs, in your individual art room account and the tutor will upload their critique for you to download and retain forever. On many courses the assignment work may be suitable for inclusion in a student's Portfolio of Work that could be very useful later. The college will use the assignments submitted as the basis for the award of your diploma.

    On successful completion of this course you will have studied new skills and gained knowledge purely for your own enjoyment and development.

    Student Artwork by Rosie Burch


    This course is also supported with video demonstrations of some study units.

    Media: Equipment used Subject: Areas covered Techniques: Skills developed
    • Pencil
    • Pen & Ink
    • People
    • Facial Expressions
    • Backgrounds
    • Caricatures
    • Children
    • Animals & Birds
    • Single Frame Cartoons
    • Strip Cartoons
    • Children's Cartoons
    • Topical Cartoons
    • Editorial Cartoons
    • Sport Cartoons
    • Drawing
    • Developing Ideas
    • Perspective
    • Layouts
    • Basic Animation
    • Selling Your Work

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    Below are a few images from the course itself illustrated by tutor and artist John Byrne.

    I think the course I did was great and really helped me improve. Also my tutor’s feedback was very helpful and will help me for when I draw in the future. Overall I think the course was educational and I really enjoyed doing it.

    G Pryse


    Overall a very informative and creative course that offered a great range of helpful knowledge and skills that have greatly developed my passion for cartooning.

    S Froelich


    This has been the most positive learning experience I've ever had. In just over a year, I have gone from barely being able to draw to executing four-panel strip cartoons and single panel cartoons in more detail than I imagined possible. John's guidance was positive and really allowed me to get the best out of myself. I can't recommend this course highly enough to people who are interested in humorous cartooning. Also, the price is very reasonable for the value that's on offer.

    P Graham

    The course was extremely good, well constructed and the whole experience more than exceeded my expectations. The admin/tech support staff were excellent - Melanie was very helpful throughout. The tutor, John Byrne, was exceptional. His comments were totally constructive, well thought out and always very helpful. A great course!

    A Quinton

    Lovely course and very helpful. I would use a course like this again.

    A Wood

    Good course to lay down the base of your knowledge about the specific course and after that you can by practising get improved.

    P Singh

    Just saying thank you very much, my tutor was really helpful and very kind. Thank you :) :) :) :)

    B Colina Attili