Drawing and Illustration
- HER-A 205 Introduction to Illustration I (3 cr.) Introduction to Illustration I familiarizes students with the building blocks of visual storytelling. Students utilize vital tools of the illustration discipline through projects focused on creative uses of composition, color, and contrast, while simultaneously developing their abilities to effectively convey emotional content and narrative concepts.
- HER-A 206 Introduction to Illustration II (3 cr.) P: HER-A205 and Herron Undergraduate Introduction to Illustration II directs the generalized exercises of the prerequisite course towards more market-specific applications. Students will create visual development assets for industries such as animation, gaming, and film. They will also focus on publishing-based projects surrounding aspects of cover art, sequential art, and picture books.
- HER-A 303 Intermediate Illustration I (3 cr.) P: HER-A206 and HER-A206; Herron Undergraduate
A303 challenges students to create illustrations as they develop personal individual styles. Projects are based on stories, editorials and personal writing. Students research, build models, use props and costumes, and photograph figures, models & settings as they complete an illustration. Assignments encourage students to use various narrative and visual concepts.
- HER-A 304 Intermediate Illustration II (3 cr.) P: HER-A303
Building upon concepts and skills employed by students in A303, the A304 assignments are based on professional illustration projects. Students are directed to develop the personal direction of their work in content, mood, form and style. One project requires the students to create a series of illustrations in sequence.
- HER-A 403 Advanced Drawing and Illustration I (6 cr.) P: HER-A304
This Advanced Drawing/Illustration course teaches contemporary standards and practices enabling each student to seek related professional opportunities upon graduation. Through a combination of drawing and illustration projects, independent investigations and critiques, students will develop technical and conceptual skills and acquire individual styles/portfolios demonstrating myriad materials, methodologies and philosophies.
- HER-A 404 Advanced Drawing and Illustration II (6 cr.) P: HER-A403 and Herron Undergraduate
The Advanced Drawing/Illustration course will teach advanced and contemporary standards and practices enabling each student to seek related professional opportunities upon graduation. Through a combination of class projects, independent investigations and critiques, students will develop superior technical and conceptual skills to acquire an individual style/portfolio demonstrating various materials, methodologies, and philosophies.
- HER-A 407 Rotating Topics in Illustration (1-3 cr.) P: HER-A403 and Herron Undergraduate
This course allows students to develop their abilities in specified, senior-level rotating topics related to contemporary Illustration studio practices.
- HER-A 414 Children's Book Illustration (3 cr.) P: HER-A303 and HER-A304; Herron Undergraduate Working with a preexisting children’s text, students will develop a layout and mock-up or “dummy” of a children’s picture book. Each student will then produce three finished illustrations for interior pages and/or the cover. Issues of page composition, sequential imaging, visual flow, and use of techniques will be covered.
- HER-D 201 Drawing III (3 cr.) This course investigates drawing from nature and the human figure to expand students’ knowledge of visual structures and human anatomy while emphasizing line, value, gesture, and movement. Advanced work includes interpretive approaches to figure and object drawing along with experimental use of media.
- HER-D 202 Drawing IV (3 cr.) P: HER-D 201 and Herron major This course is designed to heighten students' awareness of the abstract qualities in drawings, and to expand their abilities to utilize them. While still working largely from observation, students will be increasingly required to interpret the observable world while incorporating their unique perceptions of it.
- HER-D 230 Figure Drawing (3 cr.) P: HER-D 102 and Herron major
Elements and principles related to the human figure with drawing from live models.
- HER-D 251 Anatomy for Artists (3 cr.) P: HER-D 101 and HER-D 102; Herron Undergraduate. This studio class focuses on the study of human anatomy and its function in the fine arts. Course work includes lectures and study of skeletal and muscular structure of the body and is supplemented by drawings from anatomical and live models to examine the surface form of the body and its relationship to artistic anatomy. Accurate observation and recording of individual and cooperative bone and muscle structures of the human form are emphasized.
- HER-D 301 Drawing V (3 cr.) P: HER-D 201 and HER-D 202; Herron Undergraduate. Investigation of traditional and nontraditional elements of space in drawing. Emphasis placed on conceptual development and on drawing as an exploratory process and a means of producing finished works of art.
- HER-D 302 Drawing VI (3 cr.) P: HER-D 301; Herron Undergraduate. Investigation of traditional and nontraditional elements of space in drawing. Emphasis placed on conceptual development and on drawing as an exploratory process and a means of producing finished works of art.
- HER-D 303 Drawing/Illustration-Digital Rendering (3 cr.) P: HER-D 102; Herron Undergraduate. Digital Rendering addresses a range of theories in studio practice for representation and interpretation in contextual frameworks. It provides expertise in digital art programing as artistic tools in expressing unique style, content, enabling the use of drawing tablets and navigating various software interface to understand capabilities, limitations, and artistic value.
- HER-D 304 Drawing/Illustration-Narrative Imagery (3 cr.) P: HER-A 206; Herron Undergraduate. This course deals with broad range of theories to advance studio practice in narrative storytelling, providing meaning through imagery. It offers a sophisticated value addition approach to visual expression in figure drawing advancing knowledge of working with multiple interconnected layers of meaning via organization of parts to the whole.
- HER-D 401 Drawing VII (3 cr.) P: HER-D 301 and HER-D 302; Herron Undergraduate. Concerned solely with conceptual and technical capabilities in drawing necessary to satisfy the student's individual expressive needs. A primary aim of the course is to refine and extend analytical and verbal skills by means of participation in regularly scheduled open class critiques.
- HER-D 402 Drawing VIII (3 cr.) P: HER-D 401; Herron Undergraduate. Concerned solely with conceptual and technical capabilities in drawing necessary to satisfy the student's individual expressive needs. A primary aim of the course is to refine and extend analytical and verbal skills by means of participation in regularly scheduled open class critiques.
