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ARTC 165  Illustration

3 Units (Degree Applicable, CSU)

Prerequisite: ARTD 15A or ANIM 104
Corequisite: ARTD 20 or ARTD 21 or ARTD 17A or ANIM 101A (any of which may have been taken previously)


Contemporary illustration with an emphasis on story, editorial, and advertising applications. Proper uses of illustrative rendering techniques in traditional drawing and painting media, paper, and their integration to electronic media. Using professional illustration software, peripherals, and color laser printing, students advance to produce more complex illustrations.

    • Lecture Topical Outline
      - Terminology
      - Illustration history
      - Elements and principles of design
      - Illustration principles, problems, and practices
      - Illustration research, preliminary drawings, and use of black and white media
      - Color theory, color systems, color wheel, harmonies, color palettes, hue, value, and saturation
      - Issues of color media, prismacolor, pastels, and markers
      - Interpreting the visual world
      - Photography as source material, including copyright and publishing
      - Utilizing rendering and painted media as applied to illustration
      - Watercolor, gouache, and acrylics techniques
      - Scanning concepts and working with a variety of images
      - Utilizing the computer for color, drawing, painting, and special effects
      - Final exam
    • Lab Topical Outline
      - Using tools and materials
      - Using achromatic illustration media
      - Producing illustrations using color concepts and harmonies
      - Producing illustrations that utilize photography as a source
      - Exploring painting media, painting effects, and textures
      - Exploring computer drawing, painting, and special effects
      - Preparing illustrations utilizing scanned and imported images
      - Critiquing personal and professional illustrations
      - Final project critique and review
      - Final exam
    • Course Measurable Objectives
      Provide a minimum of five (5) course measurable objectives:
      1. Identify principles, problems, and practices relevant to illustration.
      2. Develop skills in the use of tools and materials which are common to the field.
      3. Describe the history of illustration and its application to various disciplines.
      4. Create original illustrations that interpret the visual world.
      5. Synthesize elements and principles of design with illustration skills and techniques in varying pictorial formats that range from simple to complex.
      6. Discuss, analyze, and evaluate personal and professional illustration projects in both written and oral critiques.