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