Undergraduate Course: Developing an Illustration Project (LLLA07031)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course is designed for students who wish to create an ambitious personal illustration project. Students can adapt a written a story or series of poems to develop these into an involved illustration project or a non-narrative series of images and ideas which can be visualized further into a series or a book. This course will provide the support for students to discuss and test out ideas using a range of traditional and non-traditional techniques, methods and concepts. |
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Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, through attending classes and engaging in directed and independent study, students should be able to:
RESEARCH
research and develop personal visual ideas from existing or their own texts to create an extended series of illustrations
PRACTICE
use a range of established and experimental techniques to explore and inform visual ideas and develop a personal visual language
PRESENT
complete an ambitious personal illustration brief.
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Reading List
Recommended
Baines, P., 2005. Penguin by design: a cover story, 1935-2005. London: Allen Lane.
Hyland, A. and Bell, R., 2004. Hand to Eye. London: Laurence King Publishing.
Blake, Q., The British Library and Laing Art Gallery, 2002. Magic pencil: children's book illustration today. London: The British Council.
New, J., 2005. Drawing from life: the journal as art. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
Blake, Q., 2005. In all directions: Travel and Illustration, London: National Touring Exhibitions/Hayward Gallery
Zeegen, L., 2012. Fundamentals of Illustration. 2nd ed., Worthing: AVA Publishing.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Using drawing as a means of visual communication
Considering compositional devices for illustration
Ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of illustration within visual culture
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
Tel:
Email: r.bushe@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sherrey Landles
Tel: (0131 6)50 4400
Email: s.landles@ed.ac.uk |
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