Illustration BA (Hons)

Here is an overview of current modules available on this course. Regular updates may mean that exact module titles may differ.

Mandatory

• Drawing for Animators and Illustrators
• Image & text
• Illustration & Printmaking
• Illustration: Origins & Function
• Illustration: Digital Processes

Optional

• Character & Characterisation
• Origins & Function
• Design: Skills & Theory
• Creative Digital Imaging
• Creative Typography

• Visual Statement
• Illustration Forms & Genres
• Entrepreneurial Practices
• Location drawing & Reportage

Optional

• 2-D Animation
• Stop Motion
• Digital Photography
• Graphic Design: Publication
• Childrens book design
• Sequential Illustration

Mandatory

• Final Research Project
• Professional Practice
• Contemporary Practice
• Authorial Practice

Optional

• Negotiated Project

• Case study Cheryl Howard

  Cheryl Howard is the 2013/14 winner of the Worcestershire County Council Illustration scholarship. Her work was exhibited in the New Art West Midlands exhibitions (Birmingham Art Museum and the Barber Art Institute) as well as in the Creative Quarterly in New York. Cheryl says of her experience on the course:

  The support and advice on the Illustration course at Worcester have enabled me to discover strengths in my own visual language. Through embracing the modules to try different media, including print making and collage, it challenged me to understand different briefs and what would enable a strong visual concept.

• Case study Kathryn Martin

  Since graduating from the University of Worcester, Kathryn Martin has been studying for an MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art in London. During her first year at RCA, she has participated in two pop up exhibitions at the university, and will have work published in the first issue of a new graphic newspaper, Modern Times. Kathryn says about her years in Worcester:

  "Without Worcester Illustration, I would not be at the Royal College of Art. During the three years of my BA, I was introduced to many different ways of thinking and working by excellent tutors who not only supported me, but gave me the freedom to play with my own ideas and research to reach something new. This level of freedom, especially during my third year, not only helped me get the most out of the direction I wished my work to go in, but prepared me for the self-directed nature of the MA course I am on now."