OFFICE HOURS: before class or by appointment
TEXT:Text - "How to write and illustrate Children's Books and get them published" consultant editors: Treld Pelkey Bicknell and Felicity Trotman -Quarto Publishing plc ISBN 1-58397-013-0
OPTIONAL ADDITIONAL TEXT: Illustrating Children's Books: Creating Pictures for Publication (Paperback)
by Martin Salisbury ISBN: 0764127179

and a blank (unlined) journal or large sketchbook, Handouts & Reference Bibliography
ATTENDANCE POLICY: The work for days missed is expected to be made up.
COURSE GOALS AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
This class will explain the process and execution of steps required to illustrate and bring a children's Book to completion and to present it to a publisher for publication. In this class, we will explore traditional and non traditional illustrative techniques and new idea-generating concepts, methods, and materials. We will focus on using original story making as a vehicle for generating image ideas and the process of constructing a book. Students will work from the models provided and develop individual projects in consultation with the instructor. In addition, the class will examine many twentieth-century children's book artists and art movements as we seek new ways to "make our mark" in this genre. Previous drawing experience is recommended. Bring sketchbook and your preferred drawing or painting materials to the first class. Bring a children's book sample for reference and study in class.

This course encourages you to develop an original combination using a story idea and illustrative media together with your imagination, intuition, and experience to exploring various ways of seeing, both visually and conceptually. In class projects we will create imaginative, fantasy, or dream works, and experiment with abstractions based on realism as well as sounds, ideas, and words. We study the relationship of medium to subject while working with a variety of concepts and materials and experiment with unconventional media such as natural materials, textural elements, and found materials to augment our illustration techniques.

The student will acquire critical skills to evaluate children's book illustration in most available media. The student will acquire additional skills in the materials and techniques of illustration, which is a learned skill. This class offers a combined theoretical and design curriculum, where evaluative skills are as important as acquired expressive skills. Beginning students will be expected to learn the basics of a classical illustration curriculum, line, mass building, values, composition, perspective and 3-dimensional representation. They will also learn the basics of non-objective and experimental drawing and color preparation for book illustration.

CLASS ASSIGNMENTS: For every assigned drawing day inside class there will be an additional drawing required outside class in the sketchbook. Each drawing assignment will explore part of the techniques and goals of Illustrative drawing, historically and explore the possible steps towards creativity. There will be class demonstrations on the practical aspects of illustration -- including: charcoal, graphite, Conté, ink as well as oil and watercolor crayon and mixed media. The class and instructor on a regular basis will conduct constructive critiques.

IN CLASS ADDITIONS: The daily work and homework, will be digitally photographed (for those students amenable) and put online together with the class notes. These will allow a running review of all the student daily work, and provide a resource for the students to show their work to others, as well.

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