ART273 Illustration III

Monday / Wednesday 2:00-4:30 pm

Room: Wolf 318

Kristin Kest, Illustrator; kkest@ycp.edu,  www.kestillustration.com

Office Hours by appointment

 Welcome  to Illustration III!

In this course, you will begin to produce work with an eye towards creating work for a professional portfolio. This means that you will continue to hone a personal style and work within a specific genre, as well as begin to perfect your painting and drawing abilities.

We will continue to discuss the specific markets within the publishing industry in regard to your work, so that you can begin to identify how to contact publishers and send your artwork samples in mailing packages.

The reading assignments and discussions will help you to understand and set up budgeting, contracts, office requirements, taxes and other legal issues for a budding career in illustration.

(And, of course, we will still continue draw until the cows come home.)

ART273 Illustration III (from YCP Handbook)

This course builds on the principles and skills learned in Illustration II, with an emphasis on professional practices and creative concept development in terms of both subject matter and medium. Through hands-on studio projects students continue to develop their own personal style, and with faculty guidance will begin to assemble an illustration portfolio and self-promotional identity suitable for prospective clients. Prerequisite: ART273

3 credit hours. Satisfies ADR I. 

Goals: We will cover more in depth illustration's business aspects like business plans and budgets, concentrate on particular methods for style, execution, and painting techniques. However, content will be continued to be emphasized, with more projects that involve sequence and character development and interaction. You will be encouraged to more closely align your content with your ideas. You will continue to research illustrators for your own influences and improved practice.

Basic Plan for the Course: You will be executing 6 or more illustration projects over the course of the semester, plus you will be reading chapters from Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer for which I will request written replies via e-mail. Classtime will be mostly studio time, dedicated to discussion of the projects and sketches, materials techniques and some illustration history, but plan to complete most of your work at home in your studio. We will hold quick, group mini-critiques of the completed projects on days specified by the syllabus schedule.

          Syllabus is subject to change during the course of the semester.