BA (Hons) Illustration

CAREER POTENTIAL:

Illustration is currently enjoying a renaissance, while the demand for innovative and multi-skilled illustrators remains constant. Illustrators can purse careers within the expanding world of animation and game design, conceptual design for film and television, advertising, scientific and product visualisation. Markets for fine art and authorial illustration have grown, alongside traditional client-led practice. Graduates may find career pathways in other areas where a high level of communication and creative skills are required.

COURSE CONTENT:

Activities are centred around helping each student find their creative voice and informing the future direction and purpose of their work. To engage with new opportunities and rapid technological and cultural shifts, the successful illustrator needs a range of practical abilities and the willingness to adapt their work to different contexts and purposes. The course content is therefore designed to students to operate in multi-tasking situations, where digital and hand-crafted processes interconnect. Students are encouraged to develop their portfolios and skill-base by taking part in selfauthored as well as collaborative projects.

BA (HONS) ILLUSTRATION Campus: Llandaff Campus Course Length: Three years full-time

From first to final year, there will be a progression from tutor-led to negotiated projects, enabling you to identify and develop a direction and emphasis for your work. You will develop awareness of the demands of professional and commercial practice, a process enhanced in year three by live projects. This aspect of your development will be supported by wider-ranging modules exploring illustration’s contemporary and historical contexts.

The programme is taught by artist- teachers and lecturers with extensive professional experience within commercial and educational illustration, graphic design, animation design, fashion and information illustration, fine art, exhibitions, printmaking and bookmaking. A range of visiting speakers with niche expertise in illustration and creative business also support the course.

The principal aspects of the programme are: • Illustration studies: the development of the practice of visual communication, with some emphasis on the relationship between words and images • Drawing and visual experiment: establishing the foundation and the structure for illustration and visual communication • Critical and cultural studies: providing a background of visual culture, and the contextual and theoretical

means to reflect and understand how and why illustrations communicate with their audiences • Professional studies: preparation for the realities of the areas of the visual communication industry in which illustrators practise.

ASSESSMENT: Throughout this course you will be assessed through a combination of practical based work and written projects.

UCAS CODES:

W220 (Route A), E220 (Route B)

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:

Foundation course in Art & Design, A Levels considered, dependant on portfolio. We have a very open mind to the qualifications you bring with you. We simply look to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile. We may ask you to bring a portfolio of your work to show us.

FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/illustration

Programme Leader: Chris Glynn - cglynn@uwic.ac.uk