Catalog
In this course, students learn to develop environments that create a sense of place and time. Students also explore visual translations of invented environments, defined by perspective, and gain an understanding of form in dimensional environments. Various media are covered.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 342
This course provides students with a comprehensive survey of the entire human skeleton and major muscle areas as they relate to figure illustration. Focusing on human anatomy lectures, composition, proportion, and life drawings, students create their own anatomy sketchbooks. Study of the head, hands, and feet is a major part of this course, along with figure construction, using photo reference. Figure sculpture is also incorporated as the students create their own bone and muscle studies out of clay. A variety of media and illustration techniques are used.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 159, DIL 247
This course covers advanced processes and techniques for working with various media and encourages students to experiment with less traditional methods in an effort to develop personal voice and mark-making language.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 231, DIL 247
This course, which must be taken in the first semester of the senior year will provide a business education that will serve to empower students to obtain a fulfilling art career. Students will compare four illustration markets and identify what market is appropriate for their work and lifestyle. In addition to this topics and issues relating to best sustainable business practices relevant to local, national, and global communities, and how the student can have a positive impact as a responsible creative businessperson. Students will use the most contemporary resources and promotional practices to create materials to support the students in the illustration market of their choosing.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 342
Through the introduction of a variety of media, this course further explores and analyzes light, shadow, value and form in relation to the human figure in various settings and situations.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 147, DIL 158, DIL 159
This course offers fundamental instruction needed for development of visualization skills and vocabulary applied in the production of storyboards for cinema, gaming, animatics, television and advertising directed towards diverse audiences and markets. Students learn to utilize traditional drawing mediums to produce finished projects. Assignments cover composition, storytelling, camera angles and moves and presentation values to meet industry standards. Open to non-majors with departmental approval.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 258
Participation in an internship experience allows students to use classroom-learned skills in a related employment experience. Students must work a minimum of 135 hours over the course of the entire semester. To participate students must be of junior or senior status with completion of freshman and sophomore studios. Students must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8. Seniors may not be eligible to participate in an internship during their final semester. Transfer students must have attended one semester at CCS in addition to meeting the other eligibility criteria.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 246, DIL 247, DIL 261
This course is a continuation of Perspective. It covers advanced uses of mechanical and freehand perspective such as plan projection, drawing, orthographic drawing and curvilinear perspective as it is applied in the field of Entertainment and Traditional Illustration. Projects are given that utilize this information and contribute to the creation of environments that have a sense of spatial dimension based on linear and atmospheric perspective. The process of ideation leading to the completion of the finished illustrations are also explored. Students maintain a sketchbook of volumetric drawings that pertain to the various illustration projects completed during the semester.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 158
This course facilitates training in speed drawing, perspective, conceptual story development and cinematic language capabilities utilized for the creation and design of storyboards for diverse audiences. These skills prepare students with narrative conceptualization capabilities that can be utilized in pre-production in a variety of entertainment-related areas such as advertising, film, animation and video game development.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 261
In this course, with the assistance of the instructor, students create artist statements, and conceive of a body of work to start exploring in Illustration Studio A. The work (or portfolio) created in this course establishes the artist’s point of entry into their chosen market(s) or path within the illustration industry. The students’ artist statements will demonstrate a knowledge of current industry practice, and students are encouraged and guided to explore how their chosen direction relates to race, gender, sexual orientation/Identity, community development, disability/differently-abled, climate change/justice/sustainability, global cultures, and economic class.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 340, DIL 342