Games

Best of 2009 | 08 |07 | 06 | 05
Advanced Search

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed games.

Art Academy: First Semester

EMAIL PRINT ds

9.0 User Score:

No score yet

Based on 3 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 4 votes
Read user comments
Rate this game >

Game Info

Publisher: Nintendo

Developer: Nintendo

Genre(s): Art

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: September 14, 2009

Summary

[DSiWare] Art Academy is a portable art course that replaces the lecture-like structure of art school and the trial-and-error of working on canvas. Art Academy: First Semester can guide you through the basics of pencil and paints, using Nintendo DSi controls to draw like the real things. With your own paintbrush set and color palette, you'll learn texturing and blending techniques, plus ways to depict light and shade. There's also Free Paint mode, which allows you to select and draw from photos in your Nintendo DSi Camera Album. In just a few lessons, you'll be discovering your inner artist and creating your own masterpieces with art skills that you can apply with real-life materials. [Nintendo]

Also On The Web: Official Website

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

NintendoWorldReport

The game has virtually limitless replayability thanks to the free paint mode, which is accessible right from the start of the game. All in all, this is an excellent piece of software.

Read Full Review >

Official Nintendo Magazine UK

A fantastic paint package, but don't be fooled into buying the same thing twice. [Mar 2010, p.92]

Nintendo Life

Art Academy: First Semester is a fantastic program for creating art, though it doesn't offer much else.

Read Full Review >

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

tupwee gave it a9:
this game was great umm.. i'm about a hundred times better than i am when i started and i only did three lessons.

Liam G gave it a9:
The Art Academy series is, in my opinion, the best DSiWare to date. Sure it's not a unique little game, but it is the best art application to ever come to the DS. I would have happily bought this for full price. Excellent lessons, each of which are well explained and demonstrated, and the free paint mode gives you the tools to make a masterpiece. It doesn't have everything, but what it has it well worth the 800 points.

Jacob E gave it an8:
A very decent attempt at art and one of the better choices to downlopad at the DSi Shop.

Myron A. gave it a10:
This is a fantastic program. As an artist, I can say that this one of the best DSi-Ware releases. When I say it feels like you're really drawing and painting, I mean it. The sounds of the pencils & paint brushes do a great job of making you feel as though you're really drawing on paper or painting on canvas. I really do enjoy the classes and especially drawing on my own; It is very impressive to say the least. One of the most beautiful parts about this software is the way the pencils work. There are 3 pencils; 2H, HB and 2B. For instance, the 2H marks the lightest on screen and works best at doing rough drafts of your work. The pencil marks look just like they should. It’s not like using Flip Note Studio’s (another great download) where you can see the pixels that form a line when you draw. Here, it looks like you’re really marking on you DS’s touch screen with pencil marks or paint; it looks very convincing. In fact, you really couldn't ask for anything more for something that only costs you $8.00 (or 800 points). Even if you just like to doddle, it’s worth the price. Best of all, it’s integrated with the gallery used to store the photos you take with the DSi’s camera. When you finish your work, you can save it into the gallery with or without one of the 10 available frames in the program (there should’ve been more IMO). I would've paid $35.00 for it if they had added markers and color pencils and more classes into the program (but more semesters are on the way, though). “NintendoLife's” quote is kind off in left field, "Art Academy: First Semester is a fantastic program for creating art, though it doesn't offer much else." Is kinda stupid because it's a paint program; what where they expecting to come with it, an animation studio? Geez. The only thing I wish they would've including are markers and color pencils; perhaps those will be included in one of the next semesters they release. This one’s well worth your hard earned “green backs”.

Games

Sony

Microsoft

Nintendo

Other Platforms

Upcoming &Recent Releases

Art Academy: First Semester

Game Info

Summary

What The Critics Said

What Our Users Said

Upcoming &
Recent Releases