The course will introduce students to illustration. They will learn the different types of illustration through the analysis of the field and by carrying out artistic projects where they will have to develop their own illustrations.
The objective of the course is that students learn about the different areas in which an illustrator can develop his or her artistic career and that they end up defining their own style that differentiates them from other illustrators.
We will experiment with analogical techniques that can be combined with digital techniques using photoshop, illustrator and indesign, in order to define our own style.
Titular Professors
It is necessary to have completed digital graphic illustration.
Introduce students to illustration and its main professional fields.
Develop technical and creative skills by combining analog and digital techniques.
Foster visual analysis skills and knowledge of key industry references.
Apply conceptualization and composition processes to create coherent and expressive images.
Consolidate conceptualization and visual narrative processes, applying them to artistic projects where students transform texts, ideas, or experiences into images with conceptual coherence.
Apply visual narrative and composition techniques, especially in children’s illustration projects, including storyboard, color, final artwork, and layout.
Encourage reflective practice and self?evaluation through the visual journal, oral presentations, and discussions about creative processes.
1. Characteristics of an Illustrator
What skills an illustrator should have and what traits are commonly shared by professionals in this field.
2. Editorial Illustration
What editorial illustration is and what its main characteristics are. Visual references from this field will be analyzed.
3. Poetry, Visual Poetry, and Rhetorical Figures
Exploring the expressive possibilities of poetic language and how it can be translated into illustration to create engaging and understandable visual narratives. The goal is to produce illustrations that are deeper and richer in meaning.
4. Composition and Its Basic Elements
Study of compositional resources, their symbolism, and how to apply them to effectively convey visual concepts.
5. Conceptualization
Process Creative connection exercises will be practiced, using both texts and narrative-based activities. These tools will be applied to the course projects.
6. Experimentation with Analog Techniques
Experimentation with various analog techniques to explore new creative possibilities, both in terms of form and concept.
7. Digitization of Analog Pieces
How to properly digitize analog pieces and combine them with digital techniques using Photoshop.
8. Children’s Illustration: Visual Narrative
Introduction to visual narrative and composition techniques used in children’s picture books. Presentation of key references in children’s illustration. A real creation process of a children’s book will be carried out from a given text: planning, group creative decision-making, storyboard development, color study, and final artwork (interior, cover, and back cover). The final layout will be done in InDesign and prepared for print.
9. InDesign Layout Review
Review of basic layout, design, and typography tools in InDesign.
The course will work through different teaching methodologies. There will be a lecture part in which the teacher will introduce certain concepts, which will be combined with discussion classes and analysis of visual references. In order to achieve these concepts, students will develop artistic projects where they will apply the knowledge explained during the semester.
MD 1: Master Class with the support of audiovisual material.
MD 2: Exercise classes.
MD 3: Project-based learning.
MD4: Seminar
MD7: Flipped Classroom
The course has two evaluative parts:
- Class participation and visual diary
- Projects
In order to evaluate the projects, experimentation and originality, coherence, adequacy, final result and good presentation will be taken into account.
The exercises or projects that do not present a correct written, grammatical and orthographic expression or a good structuring of the document, or do not include a consulted bibliography, will be evaluated with a maximum grade of 4.
If the conditions for passing the exam are not met, the maximum grade will be 4.
You will have the right to review the grade of the projects on the day fixed by the teacher. In this review the student's grade can be raised or lowered.
All the recoveries will have a maximum grade of 5.
The grade of the projects approved in the ordinary exam will be kept.
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