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Advanced Perspective for Illustration, Film and Games

Draw convincing backgrounds, architecture, and set treatments from multiple angles. You’ll learn to draw credible perspective relationships in any medium and from any point of view to create real, fantastic, and unusual art.

Digital Clothed Figure

Draw the clothed figure using digital media. You’ll practice the principles of clothed figure drawing with greater emphasis on value, construction, the design of shapes, drapery, opinion and editing.

Perspective for Characters and Environment

Learn to draw situations suggesting 3D believably. This will include naturalistic environments, lighting, and placement of characters, allowing your audience a full understanding of your stories.

Writing for Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Effective strategies for professional comic book scriptwriting are taught in this course. You will read graphic novels and critical writing about comics which emphasize the physical space words occupy. You will produce a completed comic book script by the end of the semester. (This course is cross-listed with ILL 217.)

Graphic Novel /Comic Book 2

Successful comic book artists are expert storytellers. You’ll learn the creation of style, story arc, page layout, sense of camera, and mood and time expression techniques needed to work with major or independent publications or self-publish. (This course is cross-listed with ILL 730.)

Studio 1

Develop illustrations using a clear concept, professional procedures, and core design principles. You’ll learn the process, media, tools, and current industry techniques in black and white, water-based media, and mixed media in color.

Process and Illustration

Illustrators are creative problem solvers. Building on concepts for various topics and aimed at different markets, you’ll hone your compositional skills while exploring different techniques for creating compelling art for multiple markets.

150 Years of American Illustration

Who were the significant American illustrators of the mid-19th to 21st century? Considering the printing and advertising capabilities of the time, you’ll analyze illustration’s techniques, styles, and its influences on social and cultural patterns.

Character Design

Through the exciting process of character design students will learn how to quickly combine a variety of simple shapes to lay the groundwork for creating detailed character designs. Students will explore the own characters and animals in various action poses and create Expression Sheets developing individual personalities. Students will learn… Read More

Refining Layouts in Ink

Working either traditionally or digitally, use inking to elevate your work. You’ll gain the inking skills to create mood, add definition, and convey a sense of dimension to augment your penciled sequential images. (This course is cross-listed with ILL 632.)