Ready to find your visual voice and develop your own personal style? Taught in a studio-style environment, students will work with text and drawings as well as moving image and printmaking to develop concepts for multiple industries; from commercial graphic design to fashion and animation.
With access to state-of-the-art facilities and with strong industry links, the course will enable students to sharpen their skills, promote their craft and prepare them for industry.
This course spans the creative spectrum, turning illustrators into contemporary visual storytellers. It takes an innovative, experimental and critical approach to the broad practice of illustration and helps students to find their individual visual voice. Through a mixture of practical and theoretical learnings, the course prepares students for the ever-moving creative landscape.
Working in a collaborative studio environment, students will have the opportunity to apply their skills across a range of illustrative applications including:
- Editorial
- Publishing
- Packaging
- Product
- Print
- Advertising
- Character
- Film
Course Details - Modules
Year 1:
This studio-led introduction to illustration expands mindsets and skillsets through workshops and projects.
Students have the opportunity to explore ideas generation, documentation and process experimentation and the creation of image-making through computing, animation, photography and digital print.
A programme of industry practitioners and speakers supplements and enhances the core delivery.
Year 2:
Year Two explores a more individual approach to image-making and encourages the development of creative thinking and ideas generation, combined with a deeper understanding of the subject.
The ability to have a personal vision, a point-of-view and philosophical stance is explored and a range of electives help facilitate collaborative projects with other disciplines.
Year 3:
The culmination of three years of study in Illustration is channeled into practical projects, increasingly professional in scope.
A range of self-directed project solutions form the basis, along with a major project, of the final portfolio of work appropriate to applied contexts across a range of disciplines.
Course Details – Assessment Method
Students will be assessed through the completion of practical and written work including essays and a range of individual or group artefacts, presentations, projects and reports that focus on practical and business skills.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
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.
Application Codes
Course code:
W220
Institution code:
R06
Campus Name:
Main Site
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
64 Tariff Points from accepted Level 3 qualifications.
Students will also be expected to possess five GCSEs (grade C/4 or above) or equivalent (including English) .
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
5.5
IELTS 5.5 overall with 5.5 in each subtest.
TOEFL (iBT)
72.0
TOEFL IBT with 72 points overall including minimum Reading 18, Listening 17, Speaking 20, Writing 17
PTE Academic
42.0
PTE Academic or SELT: 42 overall with minimum 42 in each subtest.
Trinity ISE
Trinity College London - B2 SELT ISE II. Pass Overall with Pass in each component.
Please view our website for full English Language requirements and options. If you have any questions please email international@rave.ac.uk