**Overview** Illustration is about absorbing the world around you and putting your personal spin on visualising such observations. Do you love to draw, develop engaging visual narratives, and bring stories to life? Do you want to take your illustration practice to degree level and gain new knowledge and techniques to fuel your creative professionalism? If so, this HNC Illustration course is ideal for you. Enjoy learning to channel your artistic talent and passion into the exciting, fast-paced world of contemporary illustration. You'll explore industry-standard design software and equipment to produce innovative, dynamic illustrative briefs – as well as make use of our: - Adobe-equipped digital suites - 3D modelling workshops - Spacious photography dark rooms - Richly resourced print facilities (including screen-printing, dry-point etching, letterpress, and heat-press) When you graduate, you can progress to the second year of BA (Hons) Illustration at the University of Portsmouth, enabling you to finish the degree in two years. You'll also have a variety of employment options in your reach, including many aspects of design and illustration, graphic art, model making, digital publishing, and marketing – or you can even branch into puppetry, textile design, or animation. **Location** This course takes place at Eastleigh College. While studying at Eastleigh College, you can access the University's student support services and community, including study support, the Students’ Union and our library's online resources. **What you'll experience** On this course you'll: - Explore the disciplines, practices and theories of illustration - Improve your drawing, printing, digital software and fundamental making skills, over a challenging and varied curriculum - Enhance your exhibition and presentation skills - Develop an awareness of professional practices in illustration and beyond through talks by creative professionals - Be enrolled at both the University of Portsmouth and Eastleigh College, so you'll have access to activities and certain facilities at both locations - Display a selection of your work at a final exhibition and learn the various ways in which contemporary illustration is disseminated - Be taught by teaching staff who have professional experience as illustrators and digital media specialists **Careers and opportunities** Completing this course successfully allows you to enter university-level study of illustration and other visual design disciplines. For instance, you'll only need to complete a further 2 years of study to gain a BA (Hons) Illustration degree. The skills and knowledge you develop could also allow you to advance your existing career or secure your first role in the industry. Areas you could work in include: - Traditional print-based media - Digital publishing - Graphic design companies and agencies - Animation/model-making industries - Industry work also delivers a range of flexibility not seen in more traditional sectors and the knowledge and skill that you obtain from this course will be applicable to work in small startup businesses and global multi-national companies, as well as in a freelance capacity.

You'll study modules worth 120 credits. The core modules you'll take on this course are: - Introduction to Illustration - Cultural Studies and Critical Theory - Line, Colour, Form and Development - Narrative and Storytelling There are no optional modules on this course. We use the best and most current research and professional practice alongside feedback from our students to make sure course content is relevant to your future career or further studies. Therefore, some course content may change over time to reflect changes in the discipline or industry and some optional modules may not run every year. If a module doesn’t run, we’ll let you know as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.

You'll be assessed entirely through coursework on this course.

Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.

26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: W221

Institution code: P80

Campus Name: Eastleigh College

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The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

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Test	Grade	AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)		English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 5.5 with no component score below 5.5.

English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.

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EU	9250.0	Year 1
England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1
Channel Islands	9250.0	Year 1
International	15500.0	Year 1

Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship Placement Year and Year abroad: UK/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students – £925 | EU – £925 (including Transition Scholarship)| International (Non-EU) – £1,800. Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice. Fees may also go up in later years, in line with inflation. For more information about fees, go to port.ac.uk/ug-tuition-fees

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