Visual Art: Illustration, AA (VART-AA-ILL)

This program prepares students with a foundation of courses in art and provides them with an opportunity to pursue a career as an illustrator or in a related field that includes animation, cartooning, and fine arts.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of all program requirements, graduates should be able to: 

• Become competent in a variety of artistic and digital media.
• Develop the ability to identify, analyze, and solve design problems.
• Obtain an understanding of the aesthetics of illustration and of the history and current state of design. 
• Become proficient in the selection and use of relevant technologies and computer software in illustration. 
• Ability to use available software and non-digital processes to sketch, model, and produce an illustration. 
• Design and develop an illustration from sketch to mockup to finished process.
• Become proficient in presenting work as well as discussing and constructively critiquing the work of others.