The visual journal can be a place of exploration that is portable, economical and inter/cross-disciplinary. Daily journal entries can include and are not limited to drawings, paintings, collages, digital renderings and photography, paper engineering, written observations, and more.
Capture a child’s imagination with original artwork while learning the tricks of the illustration trade. During this class, students will explore the wide range of children’s book illustration, from traditional to contemporary.
Demystify the process of making comics! Working from classic short stories, students will explore a variety of approaches to visual storytelling structures. Learn how clear, precise techniques can convey even the most complex stories.
This fully online, asynchronous course examines American illustration from 1800 to the present day, and the dynamic forces that drive its evolution. Course material will combine a chronological overview with surveys of selected genres, and discussions will focus on ephemera in the Golden Age, Howard Pyle and The Rise of American Illustration.
Imagine designing T-shirts for Urban Outfitters, home decor items for Target, or even greeting cards and stationery for Hallmark. There are many opportunities to explore graphic illustrations within the consumer world. This class will highlight methods for designing and illustrating for specific audiences, products, and lifestyles.
Illustration is essential to the success of the advertising, greeting card, product packaging, and publishing industries. During this dynamic class, students will be exposed to a wide cross-section of illustration styles, media, and approaches.
Looking at graphic novels in the genres of mystery, superhero, manga, memoir, and works beyond categorization, students will examine how these stories are structured: the forms of novel, novella, and short story will help differentiate and explain the subtleties of these forms.
The illustrated portrait provides a fresh new look at the strengths and flaws of people who shape popular culture, our government, and everything in between. The history of portraiture will be used as inspiration and as a technical style-guide. Students will create their own vision of important (and not so important) people while working in traditional and digital media.
Influence the masses! As an art form and a medium for communication, posters are uniquely effective at expressing ideas, raising awareness, and inspiring change. This course will focus on the application of the poster in service of the "greater good"
For a century, poster art has been used effectively for commerce, propaganda, protest, image, and personal expression. This course will focus on two particularly vibrant and expressive applications of this medium: the concert poster and the theatre poster.
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