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| DR 252 - Life Drawing |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered summer, fall, spring. This course is an intensive study of the nude. Issues of form, structure, volume, movement, composition, and expressive possibilities are explored and practiced. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. Required for all majors except graphic design, interior architecture, and photography. Recommended sophomore course |
| DR 298 - Studio Drawing |
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| A general introduction to portrait drawing, this course covers skulls, planes and masses of the head, muscles of expression, age differentiation, characterization, adornment, lighting and the double portrait, among other subjects. There are models of all ages and some clay modeling. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. This course fulfills the studio drawing requirement. Recommended sophomore course. |
| IL 200 - Illustration I |
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| 3 credits. Linn, Villarrubia, Krall. Offered fall. Designed to provide an informative initiation into the disciplines of illustration, this course includes a slide lecture on the history of illustration and instruction and demonstration of traditional painting and drawing methods. Students learn a variety of media and investigate the role of the artist as storyteller, problem-solver, and reporter. |
| IL 201 - Illustration II |
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| 3 credits. Linn, Krafchek, Krall. Offered spring. A continuation of Illustration I, this is more challenging. Media demonstrations and a continuation of discussion of historical and contemporary illustrators. Emphasis is on the elements that form strong visual images and ideas. Prerequisite: IL 200. |
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| IL 202 - Visual Journalism |
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| 3 credits. Krafchek, Beam. Offered fall. Visual journalism is built from an appreciation for and understanding of one's own environment. Students investigate relevant and meaningful community topics, acquire an understanding of the physical appearance of his/her own environment, as well as the "unseen" social, cultural, political, economic, and religious factors that define it. A variety of mediums is used to create a body of advanced work based on the student's investigations within the community. Guest lecturers conduct seminars and workshops on social, cultural, political, economic, and religious issues as they relate to visual arts. |
| IL 230 - Narrative Illustration |
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| 3 credits. Krafchek & Shipley/Sparrow/Staff. Offered spring. Narrative illustration is traditionally defined as the marriage of image and text, a collaboration of sorts between author and visual artist. For this intimate relationship to be truly fruitful, each must have a comprehensive understanding of the other. To this end, students acquire an appreciation for and an understanding of literature--its forms and functions--and the "Great Ideas" found therein. This course is structured to afford the student the opportunity to explore a variety of mediums and processes both in and out of class, create a body of work based on issues and themes addressed in the student's readings and develop narrative or story-telling skills. Guest lecturers conduct seminars on the analysis of readings. |
| IL 340 - Illustration Concepts I |
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| 3 credits. Villarubia, Bohlander. Offered fall. The object of this course is to provide a solid grounding in the procedures and practices of Illustration and the development of personal style. Students learn about representational, narrative, conceptual approaches to problem solving and how they apply in editorial, book, and advertising art. The course includes demonstrations of techniques, investigation of innovations in digital image making, discussions on professional practice, and guest critics. Prerequisites: IL 200 and 201. |
| IL 341 - Illustration Concepts II |
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| 3 credits.Villarrubia, Bohlander. Offered spring. This course continues IL 340 and the further development of a personal style. Students begin to consider directions that will lead to their work in Senior Thesis. Informal discussions are held on the business of illustration: professional practices, client relations, studio practices, client relations, and self-promotion. Guest lectures, workshops, and slide presentations are occasionally included. Prerequisite: IL 340 |
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| Illustration Electives |
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| Studio Electives – any department |
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| IL 328 - Character Development |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered occasionally. This course explores the creation of visual characters based on texts. Students will be given specific assignments to generate characters from classic literature, explore visual icons for advertising and television, and produce model sheets for animation as well as their own inventions. Topics to be discussed are anatomy of body type relating to specific genre, ages, genders and ethnic differences and realism vs. fantasy as well as costuming, environment and historical periods. |
| IL 355 - Conversations on Illustration |
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| 3 credits. Comport. Offered spring Within a seminar format, guest artists will make bi-weekly theme based presentations which will serve as the basis for extended research concerning illustration as an art form, a professional venture, a social tool and as form of public expression. Working with the coordinating faculty, students will prepare and develop materials to engage with the guest artist. The collected research will be used to create essays which will be published in an anthology at semester's end. |
| IL 238 - Digital Illustration |
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| 3 credits. Vaughan. Offered fall. This course will focus on creating illustrations in a digital medium. Assignments will emphasize traditional illustration skills such as visual problem solving, composition and drawing skills while exploraing the digital possibilities to execute the artwork. Students will spend half of their time in the studio working on sketches and concepts for illustration assignments. They will specnd the second half of their timein the computer lab executing these assignments in digital programs. The emphasis will be on Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Painter. Other programs such as Photoshop will be discussed and there will be an exercise in creating illustrations in more than one program. Crossing software and mixing media is encouraged. Prerequisite: EA 210. |
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| Fantasy Art |
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| IL 263 - Media Kitchen: Dry |
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| 3 credits. Natchev. Offered Spring. In this studio class, students explore the aspects of dry media techniques best suited for narrative art. The storytelling possibilities of color, lighting, composition, and perspective will be examined and practiced in class and homework projects. Students will learn traditional rendering techniques in graphite, charcoal, pastel and conte. Assignments include a variety of topics such as portraits, nude and clothed figures, interiors, cityscapes, and landscapes. Approaches range from reality to fantasy. This course may be repeated for up to 6 credits with ap[proval of the Chair. Sophomore Illustration elective - senior level. Sophomore priority. |
| IL 262 - Media Kitchen: Wet |
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| 3 credits. Villarrubia. Offered occasionally. In this studio class students explore through assignments the aspects of painterly techniques best suited for narrative art. The storytelling possibilities of color, lighting, composition and perspective will be examined and practiced in class and homework projects. Students will learn traditional rendering techniques in watercolor, gouacheacrylic and water-based oils. Assignments include a variety of topics, such as portraits, nude and clothed figures, interiors, cityscapes and landscapes. Approaches range from reality to fantasy. |
| IL 230 - Narrative Illustration |
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| 3 credits. Krafchek & Shipley/Sparrow/Staff. Offered spring. Narrative illustration is traditionally defined as the marriage of image and text, a collaboration of sorts between author and visual artist. For this intimate relationship to be truly fruitful, each must have a comprehensive understanding of the other. To this end, students acquire an appreciation for and an understanding of literature--its forms and functions--and the "Great Ideas" found therein. This course is structured to afford the student the opportunity to explore a variety of mediums and processes both in and out of class, create a body of work based on issues and themes addressed in the student's readings and develop narrative or story-telling skills. Guest lecturers conduct seminars on the analysis of readings. |
| IL 393 - Sensualists, Technocrats... |
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| 3 credits. Fasshion Illustration is hot. More and more, the most arresting fashion images seen today are not photographed; they are drawn, painted, collaged, printed, constructed and digitally generated/ manipulated. Laid Borrelli, a fashion historian at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, has divided contemporary fashion illustration trends into three groups: Sensuyalists who work in the fine arts tradition with paints, inks, wood blocks, and stencils, and who concentrate as much on the process of illustration as the subject. Gamines & Sophisticates whose work is figurative and who use caricature and cartooning to create characters and comment on behavoir. Technocrates are those wizards of computer-generated art who explore the limits of illustrations newest frontier. Fashion illustration today conveys a host of moods reflecting the state of the modern world as much as that of the fashion industry, and revealing a tendency toward the erotic, fantastic, introspective and sometimes sinister. This class would be team taught in 3 sections (reflecting the groups listed above.) At least one faculty would be from NYC. The coordinator and one of the three faculty is Dan Krall, known for his young elegant gouache figures. In this course, the students will be exposed to the current trends in fashion illustration and through weekly assignments, encouraged to develop their own approach through experimentation with the mediums and styles. |
| IL 372 - Sequential Art |
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| 3 credits. Ralph. Offered spring. This course is a drawing driven intensive exploration of how storyline is developed and conveyed. Students research sequential imagery in movies, video, digital and traditional animation and web sites, as well as graphic novels and comic strips. Framing, point of view, lighting, and pacing are addressed and developed through drawing based approaches. The premise of this course is that even in digital based media, the depiction of action and movement needs to be worked out and conveyed through drawing. |
| IL 5456 - The Illustrated Book |
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| 3 credits. Turner. Offered fall, spring. This is a comprehensive course designed to prepare students for entry into children's book and textbook markets. Technical and trade insights will be given with practical assignments that prepare students for a competitive and creative career. Analysis of the text, story boarding, and character development is used to prepare for completion of final art. |
| IL 444 - The Lab |
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| IL 202 - Visual Journalism |
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| 3 credits. Krafchek, Beam. Offered fall. Visual journalism is built from an appreciation for and understanding of one's own environment. Students investigate relevant and meaningful community topics, acquire an understanding of the physical appearance of his/her own environment, as well as the "unseen" social, cultural, political, economic, and religious factors that define it. A variety of mediums is used to create a body of advanced work based on the student's investigations within the community. Guest lecturers conduct seminars and workshops on social, cultural, political, economic, and religious issues as they relate to visual arts. |
| AN 202 - Intro to 2D Computer Animation |
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| This course offers students the opportunity to explore the possibilities of creating art that moves in time and space. From developing storyboards to combining imagery with sound, voice and music, students examine time-based terminology and techniques while applying their drawing and painting skills in a new way. Prerequisite: EA 210 |