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. At the end of this review, students and faculty will have identified and discussed both strength and weaknesses in the student portfolios so that the students may address both in their upcoming major coursework. Prerequisite: FD1990 Freshman Portfolio Review

This course examines the relationship of typographic design to illustration. Students will learn to apply the basic elements and principles of graphic design to a range of typographic projects to learn how type works with images to communicate ideas. In addition, students will discuss historical and contemporary use, examining page layout, identifying crucial relationships, with special emphasis on creative typographic design solutions. By the end of this class, students will exhibit increased abilities to arrange, design, and manipulate typography as a visual tool in order to more effectively communicate ideas. Prerequisites: FD1010 Digital Image Making and FD2120 Visual Design 2

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. By the end of this course, students will exhibit increased skills and knowledge in reading, writing, and in employing analytical skills in evaluating the influences of the past in shaping visual storytelling styles within American culture. Prerequisite: none

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. They will show a curiosity and openness to experimentation in non-traditional solutions. The student will understand efficient methods of creating images that require short deadlines. Prerequisites: FD 1115 Visual Design 1 and FD 1360 Structural Drawing

This figure drawing course allows students to exercise and develop both observational and constructive drawing skills. Students continue their study of gesture, the effect of light and shade on form, planes, constructive anatomy techniques, and achieving effective proportion through daily drawings of the draped and undraped figure. Character development, pose, composition, and illustrative storytelling themes add interest to the studies. Students use charcoal, conté crayon, inks, and pastels on various drawing surfaces. At the end of this course students shall, in a variety of media, have improved their ability to apply perceptual, geometric/constructive, and anatomical modes to the drawing of the clothed and unclothed human figure, and be able to place figures in a coherent story-telling setting. Prerequisite: FD 1380 Life Drawing 2

This course introduces basic oil painting materials and methods, using the still life as inspiration to develop the students’ perceptual abilities. At the conclusion of this course the student will have been introduced to and understand the basics of observational painting materials and methods in oils, using the still life as subject matter. Prerequisites: FD 2120 Visual Design 2 and FD 1360 Structural Drawing

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. Projects challenge the student’s ability to create pictures that communicate to a mass audience with impact and style. Upon completion of this course, students will have the knowledge of how professional quality illustrations are produced. They will have the understanding on how to produce preliminary sketches and to develop conceptual solutions. Students will comprehend the methods and steps required in successful compositional arrangements. They will be able to take their ideas and fully render them as a finished work of art. Prerequisite: IL 2510 History of American Illustration

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. At the end of this course the student will have created a portfolio of figure paintings demonstrating a command of color, form, gesture, and anatomy in rendering the clothed and unclothed figure. Prerequisite: IL 2550 Life Drawing 3: Human Anatomy

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. At the end of this review, students and faculty will have identified and discussed both strength and weaknesses in the student portfolios so that the students may address both in their upcoming major coursework. Prerequisite: IL 2000 Illustration Sophomore Portfolio Review

With emphasis on personal style, expressive approaches, and employing both the draped and undraped model, this course continues the anatomical, constructive and compositional ideas introduced in IL2650 Life Painting 1. Oils and acrylics are the primary materials used in this painting course. At the end of this course the student will have a portfolio of paintings of the model in and out of costume, demonstrating a firm grasp of a variety of techniques in oil painting. Prerequisite: IL 2650 Life Painting 1

Landscape painting continues the illustrator’s study of basic oil painting materials and methods. Students further their understanding of representational painting through both studio and location work and employing plein-air studies that observe the landscape to master traditional compositional principles. At the conclusion of the course the student will understand the basics of observational painting in oils, using the landscape as subject matter. Prerequisite: IL 2560 Still Life Painting

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. Studio projects will rely on the analytical method of thumbnail sketches, reference gathering, preliminary drawings, and color studies for the production of finished illustrations. At the conclusion of this course students will gain knowledge and skills in story analysis, compositional development and the production of finished illustrations in a variety of techniques. Prerequisite: IL 2570 Basic Illustration

A figure drawing course that utilizes pastels, watercolors, charcoal, graphite and conté crayon to exercise and develop the drawing skills of the student. Students study advanced concepts of storytelling, costumed drapery, pose, character development, composition, and continue their study of the anatomy with particular emphasis on the head and hands. Students also examine the effect of light on form. At the end of this course students will have a portfolio of drawings in different media demonstrating an improvement in the essentials of figure drawing developed in Life Drawing 1, 2, and 3, with special emphasis on the expressive possibilities of the head and hands, and in form lighting through long poses of the clothed and unclothed figure. Prerequisite: IL 2550 Life Drawing 3: Human Anatomy

This course is designed to inform students about the issues involved in visual storytelling. Through a series of interpretive studio projects, students will derive their inspiration from various texts, illustrating classic short stories, poems and children’s literature. By emphasizing advanced story analysis, development process, pictorial composition and color organization, students will analyze and develop a succession of narrative illustrations. At the conclusion of this class the student will have a better understanding of storytelling, understanding and interpreting text as well as other basic illustration principles such as composition, communication, drawing, character and color. Prerequisite: IL3590 Conceptual Illustration

Today, illustrators advertise their services to clients through their web page. Knowing the history, limitations and opportunities in web design using various browsers, enables illustrators enrolled in this course to research, design, and implement a professional level web portfolio. At the end of this course the student will possess the ability to clearly communicate and interpret ideas regarding basic graphic design concepts as they relate to web-page building. Additionally, the student’s web site will show effective understanding of using web-building software. Finally, the student will demonstrate the integration of knowledge from other classes to help enhance the student’s web-building abilities. Prerequisites: DM 2110 Vector Illustration and DM 2120 Raster Image Processing

Students specialize in a single area of illustration for the entire term. They may choose illustration projects in editorial, advertising, book, or institutional areas, in order to explore artwork in a related series of instructor-directed themes. At the completion of this course, the student will have created a series of three related portfolio projects that demonstrate advanced problem solving ability, greater command of a personal style in their artwork, as well as continued improvement in developing skills in illustration methods and materials. Prerequisite: IL 3660 Illustrating Literature

This is an electronic-based, technology-driven illustration course. Projects in editorial, advertising, and book illustration are created solely on the computer, applying the software programs from previous computer classes to communicate to specific audiences. At the end of this course, the student will possess the ability to clearly communicate and interpret ideas, themes and experiences as evidenced through the presentation and content of their portfolio. The student’s portfolio will show effective use of materials, processes and techniques, which display application competencies. The issues of illustration problem solving, inherent in this upper level class, will advance the student’s ability to understand how to integrate intercultural ideas into their professional work. The knowledge from other courses will be synthesized and used in new learning situations meant to demonstrate analogous concepts between illustration and other subjects. Prerequisites: DM 2110 Vector Illustration and DM 2120 Raster Image Processing

This course allows Senior students to develop their individual illustration concepts within the boundaries of editorial, advertising, or book illustration areas. Timetables and assignment themes are self-directed in consultation with the instructor. At the end of the course, a portfolio of professional-level work is completed for display in the graduation exhibition. Prerequisite: must be a senior in their last term.