ILLUSTRATION 1: INTRODUCTION TO ILLUSTRATION

Catalog description

This studio course focuses on the fundamentals of visual storytelling. Using a combination of digital and traditional techniques students will complete projects in editorial, sequential, instructional, advertisement, surface pattern design and visual development illustration. The primary emphasis for this course will be to learn the illustration process from initial research, ideation and comp sketching to drafts and finishes. Students will learn industry standards as they model the client-illustrator relationship through multiple rounds of review. Time will be spent looking at historic and contemporary examples. Students will collect and analyze illustrations that appeal to them in order to establish their visual taste and direct their personal styles. For Illustration concentration students the class will culminate in a mid-program review where students submit their work in order to qualify to continue in the concentration.