Projects assigned will be consistent with these goals. A gpa of 2.5 and approval of the Design Arts chair is required. This course offers directed guidance toward specific career goals. Advanced senior students work on problems relevant to their professional aspirations and have unlimited opportunities to explore options not available in the structured curriculum. In this introduction to the fundamentals of drawing for illustration, freehand sketching, perspective, and drafting techniques are covered.
Emphasis is on tight rendering.
This course is designed to enable students to work and gain confidence in a variety of media used by illustrators. Media include opaque and transparent watercolor, prismacolor, pastel, airbrush, and mixed media. Assignments may include fairy tales, fables, book illustration, trade publishing, non-fiction, and editorial assignments. A body of work is presented at the end of each semester for review by a panel of peers and professionals. Studio Electives Computer Graphics Introduction to Computer Systems Learn fundamentals of computer operation with concentration on typographic, raster and object graphic applications using software tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and PageMaker.