The course is designed for talented, motivated people who have the ambition to fulfil their creative potential and the drive to succeed professionally as illustrators. The course is designed to develop individual approaches to the creation of descriptive images applied to a wide range of illustration contexts. Life and location drawing, painting, photography, digital imaging and animation are integral to the course. Art and design history and the history of illustration provide the cultural framework. Business studies lectures and seminars provide the necessary information for students entering the market place.
Subjects provoke inventive and vigorous responses to conceptual development.
A wide range of subject options and approaches are offered, testing intellectual rigour and practical skills to the full, in the creation of illustration and animation. Personal exploration of subjects is encouraged. A field trip abroad or in the UK is arranged. Students participate in national competitions. Tutorial support is given throughout.