Comic & Concept Art (with Professional Practice Year)

BA (Hons) Comic & Concept Art with Professional Practice Year is a four-year degree programme, in year three you undertake a placement within the creative industries to further develop your skills and CV.

Worldbuilding, character creation, and storytelling – all rolled into one.

The best comic and concept artists share something rare: the ability to create worlds. They have a unique way of seeing, creating, and telling stories – through character and environment concept art, or the panels and pages or a comic. This is a course designed to help you find that voice, develop it, and carry it confidently into an industry that cherishes originality and difference.

Here, you’ll build serious technical and creative skills across 2D and 3D – from life drawing and digital painting to character design, environment art, and sequential storytelling. From first year, you'll be encouraged to bring your own ideas, your own characters, and your own worlds to the table. From second year, you’ll collaborate with gaming students to bring your creations to life inside real playable productions.

By graduation, you'll have a clear creative identity, a portfolio built around your specialism, and the professional skills to take it wherever you want – studios, conventions, indie publishing, games pre-production, or a freelance practice of your own.

If you prefer a closer, more community feel, UCA’s creative campuses in Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, and Maidstone could be for you. Each campus is home to a vibrant community of like-minded creatives, with supportive and passionate academic staff to help you bring your ideas to life.

As a UCA student, you’ll have access to their specialist creative facilities, from VR studios and digital editing suites to traditional craft workshops and your own dedicated art space. Here you can experiment, find inspiration, and get all the support you need.

UCA know you're more than just grades – that's why they’ll look beyond your certificates to get an understanding of your passions, personality, and portfolio.

Applying through Clearing could lead to a degree you’ll love. Join UCA’s creative community this September.