Illustration Drawn to Digital Short Course
Course description
You will start with handmade drawing, printmaking and mark-making and be encouraged to develop drawings and texture libraries. With the guidance from your tutor, you will be encouraged to explore the transition between these two ways of working to create projects that can be printed and manipulated digitally, but still retaining the hand of the artist. By working in this way you will be able to make digital technologies work for you, and gain the confidence to use these to support your current practice.
Course outcomes
You will leave with an understanding of how personal artistic practice can be enhanced by digital means. By uploading work onto the computer you will learn how to manipulate your designs in Adobe Photoshop. You will learn how to clean up images, add and experiment with textures, as well as playing with the possibilities of pattern repeat and digital collage. By concentrating on using Adobe Photoshop you will be confident with the program to continue developing skills in your own time and finding new ways to add personal style to digital images.
Who should attend
Any artist, designer or illustrator looking to use more handmade elements alongside digital work. Suitable for those looking to keep the traditional methods of mark-making alive without abandoning the benefits available with digital methods. An ideal course for those wanting to find new approaches to their practice and find inspiration from working within an experimental environment.
LevelBeginner / Intermediate
Clear, easy to understand lessons:
- Our tutors will explain things in easy to understand, accessible English. If they need to use any special terminology they will make sure they explain what they mean.
- New methodologies will be explained or demonstrated
- We also offer learning resources for you to access outside of the classroom
All our on campus courses include:
- Network and share ideas with students from across the globe
- Access the technology and materials relevant to your discipline
- Shop in our college shops for any materials you might need
- Ask questions to your tutor in real time
- Receive feedback and critique on your assignments
- Experience the many sights of London on your down time
All our online short courses include:
- Live and interactive online lessons with classmates from around the world
- The same course content and learning outcomes as our face to face courses
- Lesson recordings, for review, so you never have to miss a class
- Access to the virtual learning environment with course content
- Forums for support
- 2 weeks online access to the recordings of the live classroom sessions
- Ask questions to your tutor in real time
A certificate of completion:
- You've put the work in so we want to make sure you have something to show for it!
- As long as you attend a minimum of 80% of your classes, we will provide you with a certificate of attendance.
- However we always recommend you attend all of the classes so that you get the most out of the experience!
- Certificates are a great addition to your CV
Available dates
Make an enquiry or call us on 0207 514 7015.
Details
Topics covered
- Artist research, inspiration boards and project development
- Creating handmade textures
- Image and texture Libraries
- Printmaking (stamps, stencils, collage, mono printing)
- Experimental painting
- Specific areas of Adobe Photoshop
- Cleaning of images
- Adding digital colour
- Digital Collage
- Digital pattern repeats
- Preparing artwork for print
Materials
Onsite short course materials
- Please bring a laptop with access to Adobe Creative Cloud. A mouse would also be helpful if you have one.
- If you do not already have Adobe Creative Cloud, please sign up for a free 7 day trial of Adobe Creative Cloud for the duration of the course.(to coincide with the start of your course)
- Sketchbook and loose sheets of paper - size A4 or A3
- Pencils for sketching
- Access to a scanner, camera or smart phone to create digital images of your work. The device that you use should have the capability to transfer images to your laptop.
- Craft foam sheets - size A4 Craft Foam roller, Jakar or similar for rolling ink
- Black printing ink
- A perspex sheet or an old tray for rolling out ink - size A4 is fine or A3 is better
- A scalpel
- A cutting mat or rigid piece of card to cut on
- Tracing paper size A4
Online short course materials
- Please bring a laptop with access to Adobe Creative Cloud. A mouse would also be helpful if you have one.
- If you do not already have Adobe Creative Cloud, please sign up for a free 7 day trial of Adobe Creative Cloud for the duration of the course.(to coincide with the start of your course)
- Sketchbook and loose sheets of paper - size A4 or A3
- Pencils for sketching
- Access to a scanner, camera or smart phone to create digital images of your work. The device that you use should have the capability to transfer images to your laptop.
- Craft foam sheets - size A4 Craft Foam roller, Jakar or similar for rolling ink
- Black printing ink
- A perspex sheet or an old tray for rolling out ink - size A4 is fine or A3 is better
- A scalpel
- A cutting mat or rigid piece of card to cut on
- Tracing paper size A4
To take part in the Online sessions you will need:
- An up-to-date web browser (we recommend Chrome)
- Microphone and headphones (a headset with a microphone function is recommended. The built-in microphone in your device would also be fine).
- Webcam
- Strong Internet connection - we recommend a minimum of 2 Mbps download, and 1 Mbps upload, faster if possible. You can test your network speed here - https://www.speedtest.net
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Join Illustration Drawn to Digital and experiment with combining old and new technologies, bringing together the handmade and the digital.
Contact us:
- Chelsea College of Arts
- Telephone +44 (0)20 7514 7015
- Address Chelsea College of Arts 16 John Islip Street London SW1P 4JU
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