Illustration Practice

Recommended Prerequisites

Drawing and Representation, Drawing and Composition, Design e Multimedia degree from FCTUC or similar courses.

Teaching Methods

Experimentation and exploration of graphical expressiveness, narrativity and creating new situations (illustration) from images, texts or concepts, are the method for the development of skills that allow conceptual, plastic and graphic experimentation; capacity of transformation and fusion between analogic and digital illustration.

Learning Outcomes

This course's goal is to expand the capacity of  illustration drawing and the interaction between digital and analogic media, testing the possibilities of articulation between image and narrative applied preferably in digital media.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Appropriation and recontextualization of image

Appropriation and recontextualization of analogic draw to digital draw

Narrative potencial of illustration

Digital illustration

Exploring different tecniques and graphic solutions

Illustration as a fact, illustration as a fiction

Text as image, image as text.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Alice Barriga Geirinhas dos Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 100.0%

Bibliography

Chwast, S., Heller, S., & Glaser, M. (2004). The Push Pin Graphic:A Quarter Century of Innovative

Design and Illustration. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

Heller, S., & Chwast, S. (2008). Illustration: A Visual History. New York: Abrams.

AA.VV. (2012) American Illustration, Nova Iorque: Amilus Inc.

Melot, Michel. (1984) L’Illustration- Histoire d’um Art, Genève: Skira