Illustration Workshop Short Course

Topics covered

12.5 hour (5-week) format:

• Practical workshop activities exploring contemporary illustration
• Idea generation techniques
• Narrative and storytelling through character generation and storyboarding and simple bookmaking
• Expressive lettering and hand drawn type as a form of illustration
• The relationship between words and images in visual communication – testing layout and composition
• Exploring successful illustrations; discuss what an illustrator’s life is like through contemporary and historical examples
  
  

Additionally covered in the 25-hour (5-day) format:

• Reportage illustration (visual journalism) and how to gather primary research through observation and working on location
• Creating images through drawing, collage and printmaking – including Lino cut and Mono-printing
• Creating images for a particular audience, e.g. children or editorial images for newspapers and magazines
• Experimenting with a variety of media, e.g. using two colours, incorporating a logo with your illustration, and working to a set size

Learning outcomes

• Have the practical knowledge of how to work from a project brief and create illustration imagery.
• Identify common areas of Illustration practice, e.g. editorial, publishing, narrative and sequential imagery and expressive lettering.
• Create an experimental collection of images on paper.
• Explore basic relief printing and bookbinding
• Understand the life of an illustrator and how to communicate with your intended audience.
• Develop a range techniques using different materials for illustration.

Materials

• Sketchbook / notebook (comfortable size)
• Couple of pencils (selection: 4B - 7B)
• Any preferred drawing materials, pens, brushes