Curricular Development. Advancing the Discipline.

Illustration serves as a cornerstone in helping students realize viable visual communication skills. In developing strong foundations in drawing, students are more readily able to articulate ideas and concepts while en route to creating cohesive bodies of work, conceptual designs and early planning for product design. 

The course sees students work to develop skills in anatomy and gesture drawing while navigating toward higher level understanding of form, volume and transitional structure of light and dark values. 

User interface management and application navigation are extensions of our communal relationship with computer aided design. Students expand on traditional skills in drawing while interfacing with industry standard software. Projects are aligned with standards in film, games, animation and product design spaces.

The course examines the constantly changing role of software and hardware applications along with providing foundational instruction in the areas of conceptual design, photo manipulation, transportation design and principles of animation.