Art Academy (video game)

Art Academy
North American DS box art
Developer(s)	Headstrong Games Nintendo SPD
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Tancred Dyke-Wells
Producer(s)	Kensuke Tanabe Keisuke Terasaki
Composer(s)	James Hannigan
Series	Art Academy
Platform(s)	Nintendo DS, DSiWare, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U
Release	DSiWare First Semester NA: September 14, 2009 JP: November 18, 2009 PAL: December 25, 2009 DSiWare Second Semester NA: September 28, 2009 JP: November 18, 2009 PAL: January 8, 2010 Nintendo DS JP: June 19, 2010 EU: August 6, 2010 AU: September 23, 2010 NA: October 25, 2010 Nintendo 3DS JP: September 13, 2012 NA: October 1, 2012 EU: July 28, 2012 Wii U JP: August 8, 2013 NA: August 9, 2013 EU: August 9, 2013
Genre(s)	Art training game (edutainment video game)
Mode(s)	Single-player

Art Academy, also known as Art Academy: Learn painting and drawing techniques with step-by-step training in the PAL regions and Artistic Taste Classroom DS (絵心教室DS, Egokoro kyōshitsu DS^?) in Japan, is an art training software for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It was developed by Headstrong Games, and published by Nintendo. Art Academy was originally a two-part training application only available for download via the DSiWare service since 2009. It was later re-released in 2010 as a fully compiled, retail-able DS Game Card with added features, thus also making it available for original Nintendo DS and Nintendo DS Lite users.

The original DSiWare applications are known as Art Academy: First Semester and Art Academy: Second Semester. Each one has six and four lessons respectively, and both DSiWare applications are worth 800 Nintendo DSi Points each. Art Academy: First Semester and Second Semester were released in North America on September 14, 2009 and September 28, 2009 respectively, and in the PAL regions on December 25, 2009 and January 8, 2010 respectively. In Japan both DSiWare applications were released on November 18, 2009 as Fairly Authentic Artistic Taste Classroom: First Semester (わりと本格的 絵心教室 前期, Wari to honkaku-teki eigokoro kyōshitsu zenki^?) and Fairly Authentic Artistic Taste Classroom: Second Semester (わりと本格的 絵心教室 後期, Wari to honkaku-teki eigokoro kyōshitsu kōki^?).