If you already have some experience of Photoshop but want to push your skills to learn how to sketch up ideas using a Wacom tablet, this is the course to take your skills to the next level.

During the course you will undertake some warm

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

In this course you will explore a variety of techniques used to create images for picture books. You will be introduced to methods of communicating narratives through image making alone. By working through a series of exercises you will be

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

How do you make strong ideas a visual reality? By hand is always a great starting point - drawing, painting, etc. - but today illustrators often take hand-created work a step further, using digital tools to mix, layer and manipulate their

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

By blurring the distinction between illustration and graphic design and allowing type and layout to play an important role, this course will take a broader view of illustration and capture the spirit and enthusiasm of the BA Graphic Design degree

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

Fashion drawing is essential to facilitate the expression of ideas in the work of fashion designers. This course is for practising designers or would-be illustrators who want to improve their drawings. You will learn

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

This practical and inspiring six week course on Digital Illustration provides an overview to wide variety of digital illustration techniques. You will learn the basics of digital illustration and explore different techniques including digital

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

Starting with walk cycles and squash and stretch, the course will cover all the basics of traditional drawn animation, including matter, characters, acting and lip-sync.

Concepts of timing, layout and movement compositions will be covered

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

Whether you are new to illustration, or have been experimenting with visual language for a while, this course will help you to create unique and beautiful work, and enhance your creativity. Central Saint Martins has a world-renowned

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

Gesture drawing is the starting place for any drawing; the first marks made to build on when observing the action, energy and life of the pose. Gesture poses are held for a short time only, so the model can offer exciting, dynamic poses, (the

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

This workshop is for anyone wishing to create a character in clay that can be animated and drawn in any position required. These characters can easily be adapted to use for illustrating a narrative, a repeat pattern design for textiles or

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

This course takes a broad view of illustration for those who have an interest in the subject, or who wish to improve and develop established ideas. The course will capture the spirit and enthusiasm of the BA degree course at Central Saint Martins,

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

Do you want to develop your illustrative skills in the field of fashion? This course proposes a variety of approaches to consider when illustrating fashion. Different ways of drawing and seeing the figure will be explored. Emphasis will be

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

This is a course geared to teach traditional comedic cartoon animation timing and techniques. Students will learn how to animate a variety of cartoon actions such as double takes, scramble runs, impacts, staggers, perspective animation, as well

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

Reportage illustration is the art of recording real events and situations by hand on paper, just as a photo journalist would use a camera to record them for a magazine or newspaper feature. New directions and innovative developments will be

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

This beginners course will give you a foundation in the creative and technical aspects of all the applications of cartoon art. The skills that you'll learn may be applied to animation, comic books, graphic novels, panel cartoons,

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

The illustrator has a crucial role to play in determining the visual appearance of any picture book. This course will challenge you to push this responsibility even further by considering how to manipulate text to achieve greater impact and drama

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

In this fashion drawing for absolute beginners short course you will learn that the ability to get your designs on paper is crucial for anyone who wants to become a fashion designer. If you think you can't draw or are frustrated by your inability

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

Beauty is a growing factor in the fashion industry and this course will be focused on illustrating the fashion face.

This course is designed for students who already have some drawing skills and want to further explore illustration focusing

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

Are you interested in exploring visual communication through image making? With an emphasis on visual enquiry, innovative ideas and experimentation, this course will give you a flavour of the BA Graphic Design (Illustration Pathway) at Central

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

Fashion illustration is one of the most important tools that fashion designers possess for conveying and developing their ideas. This dynamic and energetic course is aimed at fashion students of all levels, including those about to commence

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

This course is an introduction to the art of the caricature. The methods of caricaturing are broken down into simple steps and techniques, such as implied personality, proportion, exaggeration and distortion. You will be shown how to achieve

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

This course will suite beginners or experienced designers wanting to develop a personalised style of drawing. A range of design techniques and materials are shown with demonstrations. You will be encouraged to experiment and choose your

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

This two-week intensive course explores different ways of creating a fashion designer's portfolio: your own personal sketchbook. It will be an opportunity for you to unlock your creative mind, and challenge your ideas about

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

A broad look at the different aspects involved in illustrating a comic. Through a series of workshops we will be exploring how to breakdown and draw from a script, page layout, timing and sequences, character generation, composition and body language

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

The Problem: Traditional life-classes emphasize anatomy, lighting and composition at the expense of emotional gesture, costume, facial expression, action/motion, and most of all, personality. The conventional life-class does not prepare the

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

This course is aimed at those who wish to understand the key aspects of illustration in greater depth and enhance their visual language and drawing skills with daily project briefings from sample editorial and publishing briefs to more sustained

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

Immerse yourself in a world of music, dance and art-making in this class devoted to capturing - with pencil, pen and brush - dance's movement, body language, gesture, style, line, grace and energy.

Our dancers - contemporary, hip-hop,

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

Improve your ability to authentically portray people and their surroundings through a weekend focused on drawing in cafes, pubs and other popular gathering places. We’ll find them in neighbourhoods like Soho, Camden Town, Covent Garden and

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course

Character design involves creating a character and being able to give it life by contextualizing it in different situations, moods and events. Whether you are a student, beginner or professional who wishes to learn about character design, and

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Short Course