ARST 271 - Intermediate Sequential Illustration

FC ARHU

4 credits
An introduction to the art, creation, and production of comics, graphic novels, and sequential illustration. Students will focus on a semester-long project developing original stories and characters through writing and image making. Students will learn to design effective, strong, and original layouts; characters with distinct idea, shape, structure, and fun factor; and experiments with maps, diagrams, world building, and social structures. Students acquire a basic understanding of the history of the medium; current trends; and orthodox and experimental narrative techniques. Stories and artworks may have conventional and non-conventional plots and forms, and utilize a variety of materials, analog and digital. Field trip(s) required.

Prerequisites: one introductory course in ARST.