Introduction to Illustration - Short Course

The course will include:

• drawing exercises and a self-portrait exercise
• materials and mark making: experimenting with pen and ink, collage watercolour, pastel and mixed media in order to create imagery
• editorial illustration: analysis of existing editorial illustration, survey of contemporary editorial illustration, exploration of relationship between text and image, working on an editorial brief
• editorial continued: completing mixed media editorial brief including analysis and discussion of selecting appropriate materials and colours
• narrative illustration: exercise involving converting a written story into a panel or eight images (a narrative illustration brief where you'll use randomly selected words to create a simple narrative which will be developed into a six-page book)
• narrative illustration: continuing work on the book project
• narrative illustration: completion and group critique of book project (followed by demonstrations on book cover illustration, hand-drawn type and model making)
• book cover/3D illustration: working individually to create either a book cover image or a model based on your book
• overview and discussion of the contemporary illustration market, self-editing and creating a portfolio
• Photoshop basics: scanning and cleaning up work to create a series of jpegs for a web/print portfolio