Category: Illustration Courses

This course explores various procedures and professional methods used in creating and developing powerful, dynamic solutions for a variety of subjects including social justice and climate justice and sustainability among other important issues. Students learn how to clearly communicate the one idea or symbol associated with a poster. This course takes students from preliminary sketches to finished art and involves the use of many mediums (oils, acrylics, etc) and techniques.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 246, DIL 261

In this course students learn how to synthesize ideas and narratives of written texts into effective illustration. In addition, best practices and working methods of an editorial and publishing illustrator will be learned. By the end of this course, the students will demonstrate a knowledge of how current conceptual editorial illustration practice relates to issues surrounding race, gender, sexual orientation/Identity, community development, disability/differently-abled, climate change/justice/sustainability, global cultures, and economic class.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 231

The course continues the development and reinforcement of the critical thinking/conceptual method students develop in previous figure drawing classes, and focuses this skillset towards the entertainment/conceptual illustration marketplace. This course furthers the student’s skillset by combining the knowledge of perspective and animal/human anatomy with fully realized illustrative compositions. Assignments will emphasize how to combine all of these skillsets into creating fully realized narrative image-making. The typical professional illustrator’s “workflow” process will be stressed in this course, with a heavy emphasis that includes thumbnail (ideation) sketches, rough sketches, color sketches, and finished art for example.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 231

In this course, students will complete a deep-dive investigation into the role of a visual development artist within the animation industry. Students will come to understand how this creative role fits into a greater production pipeline, and know all of the various specialities that exist within this umbrella term. Students should leave this course with a solid visual development project for their portfolios. From the concepting stage to the final version of their project, students will develop projects that reflect diverse audiences including race, gender, sexual orientation/Identity, community development, disability/differently-abled, climate change/justice/sustainability, global cultures, and economic class.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 231, DIL 261 DIL 231

In this course, students are exposed to a variety of drawing experiences, methods and materials, using line, light and volume to explore the human form. This includes a diverse group of models enabling dialog and engagement on a range of body types, porportion, value and shape

Credits: 3

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In this course, students learn to incorporate traditional drawing and computer painting processes to produce finished projects. Conceptual figure invention, design principles and the use of both traditional and digital tools are explored. The creation of rendered pen and ink drawings are utilized as the foundation for producing digital paintings. Personal and classical character development and traditional painting techniques are used to produce mass-production quality CMYK images. Projects are developed to meet industry standards for entertainment companies; i.e. comics, syndication, editorial illustration and TV.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 261

Structural Figure Painting is an Illustration department course offered to seniors. It is designed to apply the knowledge a student has gained from their combined classes from Terms 1-6 in general, and specifically focus on drawing, painting, and analyzing the entire figure in a complex manner for finished work. This involves a number of multiple class session figure poses, larger sized in class work, as well as some larger scale and complex homework projects. A diverse grouping of past and contemporary artists from varied global cultural backgrounds of race, gender, sexual identity/orientation, among others will be critically discussed.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 246

This course is designed to teach students methods for mechanical and freehand perspective drawing. Topics covered are volumetric drawing, equal and unequal spacing in perspective, one point (parallel perspective), two point perspective, three point perspective, inclined perspective, ellipses (as well as the difference between ellipses, circles in perspective and ovals), and tonal values as they relate to atmospheric perspective and the rendering formula of highlight, light, shadow, shadow core, reflected light, and reflected shadow. Also taught are the understanding of light refraction and rendering of cast shadows and the use of hard, intermediate and soft edges to achieve a sense of dimension.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFN 101, DIL 147

In this course, students explore and develop craft and principles for the creation of art for greeting cards, novelties and other retail and merchandising markets. Students research and develop products which can potentially be mass-produced and marketed to diverse audiences. Students are encouraged and guided towards researching global cultures, and creating illustration that reflects diverse individuals from a variety of race, gender, sexual identity/orientation, disability/differently-abled, and economic class. Students will also develop a list of potential clients and contacts for the products they produce. Production methods and procedure for creation of finished work is open to individual exploration. Students have the option of using traditional or digital tools, or three dimensional mediums.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 231, DIL 261

“Illusionist Painting” is an atelier style course focused on contemporary representational practices, with an emphasis on creating the illusion of form from the live figure. Students will have extended class time to accomplish paintings from a diverse grouping of live figure models of varied race, gender, sexual identity/orientation, and disability/differently-abled backgrounds. The course will include an observational approach to painting the human figure and will develop skills in proportion, perspective, modeling form and illusion, based on an advanced level. The advanced class will emphasize the completed image ”lay-in” stages, rendering of complex realistic and representational form, surface quality, and personal outlook or “voice.”, We will cover contemporary methods and materials, and traditional methods in panel painting, canvas and chassis, ground preparation, pigment preparation, varnishes and mediums, and mural painting among other methods and practices.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 231, DIL 247