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| Children's Book Illustration 1 | Students are familiarized with the illustrator’s role in the development and creation of a children’s book. Assignments include breaking up manuscripts, designing characters, creating a storyboard, a wrap around jacket, a 3-D page dummy and several finished pieces. | Class |
| Conceptual Illustration | The information age demands that the illustrator must absorb complicated text and summarize it with a single image. In the areas of advertising, editorial and institutional illustration, the artist does just that. This course defines and develops the necessary methods required to successfully conceive and produce powerful single image illustrations that quickly communicate to a mass audience. | Class |
| Junior Portfolio Review | All Juniors are required to participate in their departmental Junior portfolio review, which occurs at the completion of the Junior year. This review enables the department to redirect students toward certain remedial tasks and helps them to focus on their professional objectives. | Class |
| Basic Illustration | This course is the foundation illustration course. Students learn to apply their problem-solving skills to make narrative illustrations in various media, such as pencil, pen and ink, scratchboard, charcoal and watercolor. Students are challenged to develop finished illustrations through a series of preliminary drawings which analyze and direct the meaning of the work. | Class |
| History of American Illustration | This course offers the beginning illustration student a broad view of the major personalities who influenced the illustration field. Examining how past illustrators conceived and produced their artwork for the mass media; this course uncovers the roots of style, and reveals the singular philosophies that shaped the major avenues of illustration. | Class |
| Illustration Media | Students explore a variety of media that are particularly effective for illustrators working with deadlines. The emphasis of this course is experimentation with innovative techniques using both water-based and oil media to discover new ways to express their ideas visually. At the conclusion of this course the student will have practical usage and application of various drawing and painting media. | Class |
| Life Painting 1 | Students paint from live models to further develop artistic skills in this studio course. They explore the potential of the human figure as a vehicle for creative visual expression. The integration of drawing, painting, composition, color and content are important. | Class |
| Illustration Sophomore Portfolio Review | Students who have completed over 60 credit hours (at the end of their sophomore year) are required to participate in this mid-career portfolio review. This review is designed to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses so that they may address both in their upcoming major course work. | Class |
| Drawing 2 | This course introduces students to methods of structural based drawing through rigorous observational practices. With an emphasis on composition, ideas such as light, shade, value contrast, tone, proportion, texture, mass, volume, and technique are introduced. Utilizing the study of natural and man-made objects, students become familiar with one, two, and three point perspective. | Class |
| Freshman Portfolio Review | This is a non-credit portfolio review taken by all Freshmen at the end of their second semester of study. Attendance at the Freshman portfolio review is mandatory as this is a graduation requirement. Prerequisite: two semesters of Foundation study
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Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design
Denver, Colorado | 800.888.ARTS