DRAWING AND ILLUSTRATION

About this Course

This course provides the necessary technical and manual skills in drawing and imaging that are required in graphic illustration. Students enrolling in this course will be exposed to extensive studies in both manual and computer skills in order to find solutions to given problems.

Course Learning Outcomes

1) Display skills in drawing and illustration that are necessary for good graphic illustration.
2) Apply skills in drawing and illustration that are necessary for good graphic illustration.
4) Demonstrate self managerial skills and strategies in composing creative illustration projects through desktop publishing.
3) Demonstrate work ethics through critiques session related to the assigned tasks.

Course Syllabus

+ Course Syllabus

1) Types of Illustration
? Three basic components of a work of art
? Subject
? Form
? Content
? Savoring the ingredients
? Two dimensional media and techniques
? Two Dimensional picture plane
? Picture Frame
? Positive and negative areas

2) History and influence of illustration on commercial products and fine arts
? The need and search for art

3) Drawing skills in illustration.
? Form
? Line
? Shape

4) Composition in illustration (color and surface rendering).
? Vocabulary of color
? Characteristics of color
? Light: The source of color
? Additive Color
? Subtractive Color
? Artists color mixing
? Physical Properties of color
? The evolution of color wheel
? The role of color in composition
? Color balance
? Color and harmony
? Color and variety

5) Computer type-setting with illustration
Introduction to Photoshop
? Scanning image/
? File format
? Understand the tools in Photoshop
? Effects on Photoshop ?
i. posterization
ii. line posterization
iii. multicolor line posterization
iv. tone posterization
v. duotones

6) Developmental project in graphic, 'paint and graphic software'
? Motion pictures
? Television
? The Computer and Art
? Multimedia

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