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Academic Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Courses
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CDIL205 Media Techniques 3 cr.
An introduction to the practical application of a range of Illustration materials with a focus on water-based paint media. Through demonstrations, in-class exercises and comparative assignments, students build technical skills and increase knowledge of color in applied problems.
Prerequisites: SFDN181, SFDN185
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall & Spring
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CDIL208 Digital Illustration 3 cr.
This course explores digital imaging using scanners, drawing tablets, digital cameras, Photoshop and Illustrator for the Macintosh. Concept-driven assignments have strong drawing components.
Prerequisites: SFDN181, SFDN185
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall/Spring
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CDIL211 Human Figure in Illustration 3 cr.
By drawing the human figure in a variety of situations, students explore basic anatomy. Assignments include use of figure or anatomical drawing in professional practice situations.
Prerequisites: SFDN181, SFDN185
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall/Spring
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CDIL214 Drawing: Observation to Concept 3 cr.
The course stresses the process of working with dry media techniques (graphite, pastel, colored pencil. scratchboard) basic drawing skills, and2D principles to render concepts. Visual, metaphors are explored by manipulating the contexts and relationships of objects and figures.
Prerequisites: SFDN181 and SFDN185
Critique
Departmental Elective
Fall/Spring
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CDIL215 Sophomore Illustration 3 cr.
An introduction to professional illustration with emphasis on drawing and painting from observation. Assignments will introduce students to a variety of illustration venues including book, editorial, and product illustration while exploring the visual methods of color and composition as precise visual tools.
Prerequisites: Take 9 credits from CDIL-205, CDIL-20, CDIL-211 CDIL-214,
CDIL-216
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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CDIL216 Color for Illustrators 3 cr.
Color is a powerful aspect of an illustrator’s education. In response to this assertion, this studio course draws upon the understanding of color theory -though the steadfast focus remains on practical application, on tutoring intuition, heightening awareness, and refining skill. Through a practical exploration of theoretical/conceptual issues, students investigate the complexity and interrelatedness of elements of color - its perceptual, emotional/psychological, technical and aesthetic aspects. Students are required to complete a series of studio projects emphasizing the informed intuitive awareness, creative use, and practical application of color as a formal means of visual communication and expression for storytelling.
Prerequisites: SFDN181 and SFDN185
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall/Spring
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CDIL302 Narrative Illustration 3 cr.
An exploration of the storytelling power of illustration. Emphasis is on the research and drawing skills needed to develop strong characters in sequential imagery. Students work in a variety of media, both traditional and digital. The course also examines historical and emerging trends in the business of children’s books, textbooks, book covers, artists’ books, and graphic novels.
Critique
All College Elective
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CDIL303 Watercolor 3 cr.
An exploration of watercolor as a medium for illustration. Emphasis is on value, light, and applied color theory, working toward an evocative and personal palette. Work of historical and contemporary illustrators is discussed.
Prerequisites: CDIL215 or permission of instructor
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDIL304 Advanced Drawing Projects for Illustrators 3 cr.
The course is a continuing deep investigation into informed drawing. Focus is on drawing as a way of understanding objects, figures, animals, and place in terms of physicality, substance, and subjective response. The practice of drawing is explored as means for research, inspiration, and expression. A series of open-ended topics will be approached individually and idiosyncratically, with the goal of producing a series of rendered essays which inform, reveal, report, and narrate.
Prerequisites: CDIL205, CDIL208, CDIL211,CDIL214, CDIL215, CDIL216
Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall & Spring
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CDIL305 Word and Image 3 cr.
Exploration of letterforms as pictures and pictures as symbols. Typography, the language of designers and art directors, is examined by studying the history and development of fonts and letterforms. Progressively challenging assignments use words and text as pictorial elements in illustrations to strengthen and reinforce concepts.
Prerequisites: CDIL205, CDIL208, CDIL211,CDIL214, CDIL215, CDIL216
Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall & Spring
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CDIL308 Painting for Illustrators 3 cr.
This studio course explores various techniques using watercolor, gouache, acrylics, oil and mixed media in the development of advanced drawing and painting skills as they apply to illustration. The effective use of color will be a primary consideration in all assignments and exercises. Students work in class on painting and drawing skills through still life, landscape and figure studies.
Prerequisites: CDIL215 or Permission of Instructor
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDIL309 Digital Painting and Techniques 3 cr.
This class will use software to apply traditional painting and drawing techniques in a digital format. The students will also have the opportunity to reinforce certain traditional aesthetic values in the creation of a digital painting. Students are encouraged to work as much as possible with their own images and references and to use traditional drawings and utilize found textures. They will be encouraged to use the program to experiment stylistically. This is an advanced course and a basic knowledge of Photoshop and its tools are required.
Prerequisites: Take CDIL-205 CDIL-208 CDIL-211 CDIL-214 CDIL-215 CDIL-216
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDIL313 Experimental Illustration Techniques 3 cr.
Students explore a variety of experimental techniques that push the boundaries of the 2D/3D plane. By looking at the work of mixed media artists of the past and present this class will investigate the possibilities of alternative image making. As the semester progresses these experiments develop into more advanced conceptual pieces over multiple weeks. Some of the techniques covered in the course: various media transfers, collage and layering techniques, various distressing techniques, screen printing, working with found objects, working with 3D objects and photographing your 3D pieces. Basic drawing skills and being open to experimentation are required.
Prerequisites: Open to Juniors and Seniors
Critique
Undergraduate Elective
Fall and Spring
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CDIL314 Book Arts 3 cr.
Students will explore bookbinding techniques for various adhesive and non-adhesive book structures, as well as a range of spine structures: sewn, concertina, leperello, wrapped, stabbed, coptic. Methods for creating the student’s own cover papers will be demonstrated and explored. Students will design and create an illuminated trilogy using three different book structures, and design and build a container to hold these. Illumination media may be simple relief printing, painting, drawing, collage, stenciling, or photography, and incorporated text may be self generated or borrowed prose, poetry, lyrics, or dialog. Graphic design and printmaking majors welcome. Students should be at junior or senior levels.
Prerequisites: Open to Juniors and Seniors
Hybrid Studio/Critique
All College Elective
Fall & Spring
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CDIL326 Junior Illustration 3 cr.
This course explores various areas of professional illustration. Assignments address book, editorial, product and advertising illustration and emphasize working with color as
a precise visual language.
Prerequisites: CDIL-205,CDIL-208, CDIL-211, CDIL-214, CDIL-215, CDIL216
Departmental Requirement
Fall & Spring
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CDIL327 Technical Illustration 3 cr.
This course includes an introduction to the laws of linear perspective,–an exploration of how three-dimensional reality is depicted on a two-dimensional surface. Additional course content includes tools of the trade, various techniques for producing technical illustrations, informational art and instructional illustrations in sequential series.
Prerequisites: CDIL205, CDIL208, CDIL211, CDIL214, CDIL215, CDIL216
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall/Spring
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CDIL329 Advanced Human Figure:Clothed 3cr
This course allows for a more advanced study of the clothed and unclothed human figure from an observational perspective. The course focuses on clothed models and application of the clothed figure in context (interior and exterior space, as well as multiple clothed figures interacting), with the emphasis on exploration of the variety of clothing and fabrics in relation to the body’s anatomy and movement.
Prerequisites: CDIL-211 and CDIL-214
Hybrid Studio Critique
Spring
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CDIL334 Professional Illustration 3cr
Boston is a city rich in diversity as well as
being home to over 100 non-profit organizations
that serve the community at large.
The Professional Illustration for the Community
course aims to provide students with an
opportunity to partner with a variety of area
non-profit organizations, creating illustrated
projects specific to their needs.
Similar in structure to the very popular
Professional Freelance Studio class, assignments
produced in Professional Illustration for the
Community would however have one major
difference: intent.
This course will make students aware of the fact
that illustration need not be limited to the
commercial realm and that their artistic
contribution can lead to greater understanding of
themselves, the community and beyond.
Organizations such as Eagle Eye Institute
(empowering urban people from low-income
communities, especially youth of color, to play
an active role in caring for our environment),
The Bay State Reading Institute (ensuring that
every child leaving elementary school a
proficient reader) and The Boston Tree Party (an
urban agricultural and participatory art
project), would be invited to collaborate with the class.
Prerequisites: CDIL-215
Critique
Undergraduate Elective
Fall
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CDIL337 Virtual 3D Illustration 3cr
This course teaches the basics of creating digital 3D illustrations using ZBrush. ZBrush is industry standard software that enables
artists to sculpt directly in a 3D environment. With an emphasis on drawing and composition, this course explores ways to translate 2D drawings into three dimensions. Topics covered include,
character development, environment, lighting and texture.
Prerequisites: CDIL-208 or CDAN 203 or Permission of Instructor
Hybrid Studio Critique
Fall
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CDIL392 IL Course Assistantship
A course assistantship allows qualified
sophomores, juniors, and seniors to assist a
faculty member with whom they have studied
previously. Duties may include set up, assisting
with demonstrations and critiques during class
meetings. Course assistants may not grade
students. Students may register for only one
3-credit course assistantship each semester, and
no more than two such assistantships may count
toward degree requirements.
Students selected by faculty to be course
assistants submit a Course Assistantship form
with the faculty and chair’s signatures to the
Registrar during registration and no later than
the end of the Add/Drop period. Students who are
performing a Teaching Assistantship should follow
Independent Study procedures
Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor
Fall & Spring
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CDIL398 IL Internship
An internship is a supervised professional
experience that allows you to use classroom
training in a real work environment, develop your
skills, focus your career goals, and make
professional contacts.
MassArt offers students enrolled in a degree
program the opportunity to register an internship
for credit. An internship counts as 3 studio
elective credits. To receive credit, the
internship must meet our basic internship
requirements, be approved by a faculty advisor,
and registered before you start the internship.
Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor
Fall and Spring
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CDIL399 IL Independent Study
Juniors and seniors who have a specific studio
project which cannot be accomplished within the
structure of a course may arrange to work with a
faculty member on an independent basis. The
Independent Study form (available in the
Registrar’s Office) includes a description of the
project. Students may take only one 3-credit
independent study each semester, and no more than
four independent studies will count toward the
degree.
Independent Study forms, with faculty and the
chair’s signatures, should be submitted to the
Registrar during registration and not later than
the Add/Drop deadline.
Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor
Fall and Spring
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CDIL400 Professional Freelance Studio 3 cr.
A course designed for highly motivated students interested in freelance illustration. Assignments, developed in conjunction with publishers, corporations, and small businesses, focus on illustration for publication and the experience of taking an actual commission from concept to completion.
Prerequisites: Seniors Only
Critique
Departmental Elective
Spring
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CDIL401 Black and White Illustration 3 cr.
Students will explore various dry and wet black and white illustration media and techniques, both additive and subtractive, including some experimental printmaking. Course will include working with brush and ink, pen and Ink, gouache and acrylic paint, stipple with technical pen, pencil on toned paper, block prints, monoprints with emphasis on the power of creating dynamic value as a means to communicate ideas. Students will complete a series of assignments designed to showcase each media’s distinctive strengths.
Prerequisites: Open to Juniors and Seniors
Critique
Departmental Elective
Fall & Spring
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CDIL403 Thesis Project I: Research 3 cr.
The first of two semesters involving investigations of a topic of personal interest to
each student which is relevant to illustration. This course demands far-reaching scholarly
research and extensive comprehensive drawings in preparation for a finished body of work.
Prerequisites: CDIL-304, CDIL-305, CDIL-327 or
CDIL-210, CDIL-350, CDIL-326 or
CDIL-310
Runs concurrenlty with CDIL-404 Co-requisites: CDIL404
Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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CDIL404 Thesis Project II: Imagery 3 cr.
This course is the second of two semesters in
which students continue to produce finished
illustrations/animations and prepare a bound
graphic summary for the degree project
exhibitions. (Previoulsy Illustration Thesis
Project II)
Prerequisites: CDIL-304, CDIL-305, CDIL-327 or
CDIL-210, CDIL-350, CDIL-326 or
CDIL-310
Runs concurrenlty with CDIL-403 Co-requisites: CDIL403
Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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CDIL420 Illustration Portfolio 3 cr.
Development of portfolio material based on the student’s professional focus. Through a series of discussions with the instructor and presentations by illustrators/animators in the field, students develop professional standards and produce finished portfolio pieces.
Prerequisites: CDIL-403 & CDIL-404 Co-requisites: CDIL419
Critique
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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