Illustration FdA at University Of Brighton
Our Illustration Foundation course, based at Sussex Coast College Hastings, will provide you with an understanding of the function and scope of illustration. You will have the opportunity to approach the discipline in a way that is individual, questioning and innovative. Cultural and critical theory provides a basis for subject practice. Business awareness and vocational skills are raised through work-related learning and links with employers.
Areas of study
You will explore how meaning is conveyed through all visual images. The use of media is wide ranging with the opportunity to specialise in year 2 in printmaking, type and image, digital technology, animation, book arts, and mixed media. For the most part, it is drawing in all its forms that will inform your experience on this course. It is the wide-ranging nature of the experience offered, together with an emphasis on the understanding of the critical and contextual dimensions of illustration, which will challenge you to develop your own personal style and working method. This, together with a strong emphasis on professional practice, will provide you with a sound basis on which you can draw throughout your career and in response to ever-changing professional environments.
You will have access to research and information resources at the University of Brighton.
Syllabus
Year 1
Drawing
Ideas Generation and Development
Graphic Narration
Animation
Specialist Practice
Personal and Professional Development
Culture, Context and Meaning
Year 2
Concepts and Ideologies into Practice
Specialist Pathway
Presentation project
Professional Practice
Culture, Context and Meaning
Career and progression opportunities
Opportunities for illustrators are generally on a freelance basis whether within editorial, book publishing or advertising. In addition, illustrators may exhibit their artwork and develop a range of creative ideas and applications from which they develop their own markets. Students have successfully undertaken work placements at Coley Porter Bell, London; understudied leading illustrators within the work place in Hastings and Brighton; organised an illustration event entitled Alternative Fashion using paper clothing; and produced window displays for environmentally focused shops in Hastings as well as an exhibition at the Rye Gallery.