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