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Undergraduate Course: Developing an Illustration Project (intensive) (LLLA07088)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryTHIS IS A FOR-CREDIT ONLY COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED
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.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. 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
  2. PRACTICE
    use a range of established and experimental techniques to explore and inform visual ideas and develop a personal visual language
  3. PRESENT
    complete an ambitious personal illustration brief.
Reading List
Recommended Reading and Web sources

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, The British Council
New, J., 2005, Drawing from life: the journal as art, Princeton Architectural Press
Blake, Q., 2005, In all directions: Travel and Illustration, National Touring Exhibitions/Hayward Gallery
Zeegen, L., 2012, Fundamentals of Illustration, 2nd ed., Worthing: AVA Publishing
http://www.theaoi.com
http://illustration.eca.ac.uk
http://www.illustrationfriday.com
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
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMr Robbie Bushe
Tel:
Email: r.bushe@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Sherrey Landles
Tel: (0131 6)50 4400
Email: s.landles@ed.ac.uk
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