Illustration
Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication Design
If you can’t get enough of drawing, are constantly coming up with new ideas and enjoy expressing your thoughts through colour, line and texture, then you should look further into this area of study.
An illustrator creates images that communicate ideas and tell stories. Illustrators have the power to establish new worlds and test boundaries of reality through drawing and stylisation.
The course thus explores various mediums and stylistic approaches that can be combined in order to arrive at an illustrated visual expression that outlines and clarifies specific concepts or ideas. Illustration communicates by combining visual cues in a considered composition and can be applied to various platforms such as posters, books and editorials, amongst other things.
Careers
- Editorial Illustrator
- Illustrator in Advertising
- Illustrator (General)
- Children’s Book Illustrator
- Visual Artists
- Medical Illustrator
- Graphic Novelist
- Comic Artist
- Illustrator
- Storyboard Artist
- Not limited to the above!
If you are addicted to doodling and can’t stop drawing, painting and expressing your thoughts and ideas with colour and line, this area of study is definitely for you.
An illustrator crafts images that express ideas – they will absorb all the information on a certain topic and distill it into a single, striking image, in the most suitable style.
The course explores various mediums and approaches that can be combined to arrive at an illustrated visual expression which outlines and clarifies concepts or ideas. Illustration communicates through various styles to present illustrated content for posters, books and editorials, amongst other things.
Careers
- Editorial Illustrator
- Illustrator in Advertising
- Illustrator (General)
- Children’s Book Illustrator
- Visual Artists
- Medical Illustrator
- Graphic Novelist
- Comic Artist
- Illustrator
- Storyboard Artist
- Not limited to the above!
