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Academic Catalog 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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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: SFDN186
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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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: CDIL205
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.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Culturally Diverse Content
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
Culturally Diverse Content
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
Culturally Diverse Content
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.
Prerequisites: CDIL220 or permission of instructor
Critique
Culturally Diverse Content
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: CDIL220 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: CDIL210, CDIL209, CDIL211,CDIL220
Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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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: CDIL220, CDIL310
Critique
Culturally Diverse Content
Departmental Requirement
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: CDIL205 and CDIL220
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: CDIL208
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDIL313 Experimental Illustration Techniques 3 cr.
In this seminar the class will look at the work of contemporary artists, and figures from the past, who have expanded their visual vocabulary using unexpected materials like chocolate, lead, gunpowder, straw, pills, blood and recycled tires. The class will examine how concept can initiate the exploration of unconventional media and how form can enhance and expand content. In addition to in-class discussions, students will investigate alternative approaches to image creation in their own work via assigned problems and student driven projects.
Prerequisites: CDIL205 Media Techniques; Open to juniors & seniors
Critique
Departmental Elective
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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
Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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CDIL318 Collaborative Projects: Illustration and Graphic Design 3 cr.
This studio elective course offers juniors and seniors in Illustration and Graphic Design a unique opportunity to work in collaborative teams on a series of project assignments. The course will be team taught by a faculty member from each discipline. All aspects of the creative and production process will be addressed. Students will conceive and execute the design and illustration of three projects (whenever possible, actual professional projects will be assigned) in a variety of graphic forms such as posters, calendars, book covers, editorial spreads, with the goal of producing strong, practical portfolio pieces.
Prerequisites: critique
Departmental Elective
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CDIL319 Illustrative Mask-Making 3 cr.
In this course students will create three-dimensional painted masks as mixed-media solutions to illustration assignments. Projects will focus on 2D and 3D character design, the history of masks in various world cultures, and puppets. Students will experiment with various traditional and non-traditional materials in making a series of masks, simple costuming and puppets, with a strong focus on research, sketching, painting and personal voice.
Prerequisites: critique
Departmental Elective
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CDIL326 Junior Illustration 3 cr.
Prerequisites: CDIL2215
Departmental Requirement
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
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Culturally Diverse Content
Departmental Requirement
Fall/Spring
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CDIL330 Color for Illustrators 3 cr.
Color is easily the most powerful and neglected aspect of an illustrator’s education. In response to this assertion, this course is conceived as a studio course for illustrators which draws upon color theory for understanding (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 become aware of the complexity and interrelatedness of elements of color - its perceptual, emotional/psychological, technical and aesthetic aspects. Students 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 - as a means of storytelling.
Prerequisites: CDIL220 or permission of instructor
Critique
Culturally Diverse Content
Departmental Elective
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CDIL350 Illustration Thesis Project I 3 cr.
This course is the first of two semesters involving investigation of a topic relevant to illustration and of personal interest to each student. This course demands far reaching scholarly research and extensive comprehensive drawings in preparation for a finished body of work.
Prerequisites: CDIL205, CDIL208, CDIL211, CDIL214
Critique
Culturally Diverse Content
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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CDIL392 IL Course Assistantship
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CDIL399 IL Independent Study
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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: Take CDIL-304, CDIL-305, CDIL-326, and CDIL-327
Critique
Departmental Elective
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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: CDIL220
Critique
Departmental Elective
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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
Culturally Diverse Content
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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CDIL419 Senior Illustration 3 cr.
This course is focused on the development of a body of images geared toward a specific area of
the illustration marketplace that is of particular interest to each student.
Prerequisites: CDIL-403 & CDIL-404
Critique
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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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
Critique
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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