History:
While most portfolio schools are relatively new inventions, SVC dates back to the days before Photoshop, the web, and recycled paper; 1971, to be exact. That year, two gifted and highly successful illustrators, Dick and Cherry Brown, decided to open an art school where working professionals would do the teaching. Since computers hadn't been invented yet, they stressed hand skills and conceptual thinking. Nearly 43 years later, their underlying philosophy is still quite intact. Today, SVC still believes you should learn to draw and think, before you start to point and click. We're not opposed to technology. Hardly. What we're opposed to is people who think learning to pound a hammer qualifies you to be an architect.
