Illustration for Graphic Novels
BA (Hons) Design: Illustration for Graphic Novels
Why choose Illustration for Graphic Novels?
This new and unique course is much more than “comic book illustration”. It enables you to specialise within illustration in developing images and characters for graphic novels allowing you to gain practical experience and detailed knowledge and techniques appropriate to this area.
The degree is designed to encompass a broad range of creative skills that are vocationally orientated giving you experience and techniques which will promote a confident approach to prospective employment as illustrators in the graphic novels industry, traditional and e-publishing, newspapers, magazines and related creative industries areas such as animation and film.
You will develop your skills in character design, graphic design working with layout, colour, typography, a host of digital software packages and creative writing through this course. These skills can be put to use in a variety of roles in the creative industries.
Special features
- There are opportunities to work with a range of media and materials using traditional and digital creative techniques.
- This is the only degree in the UK that specialises in this aspect of writing and illustrating.
- The course has strong links within the graphic novel/comic book industry.
Career opportunities
The degree has a strong vocational focus and aims to ensure that on completion of your studies you will have a range of vocationally relevant skills. It takes into account the fact that the future needs of the creative industries are likely to be very different and aims to prepare you for emerging work scenarios. There is an exciting range of career opportunities open to you including opportunities to work as independent professional practitioners or freelance.
