Drawing and Illustration
- HER-D 201 Drawing III (3 cr.) P: HER-D 101 and HER-D 102; Herron Undergraduate. Investigation of nature and the human figure through drawing. Emphasis on structure, line, gesture, and movement.
- HER-D 202 Drawing IV (3 cr.) P: HER-D 201
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 in addition to recording what they perceive.
- HER-A 205 Introduction to Illustration I (3 cr.) P: Foundation Program and Herron Undergraduate
Through a series of directed studio projects, related lectures and group critiques, Introduction to Illustration I serves to familiarize students with the communicative aspects of visual representation, as well as the methods and practices applicable to the illustration discipline.
- HER-A 206 Introduction to Illustration II (3 cr.) P: HER-A205 and Herron Undergraduate
Introduction to Illustration II serves as a continuation of the lessons presented in Introduction to Illustration I, by transitioning the more generalized exercises of the prerequisite course towards more specific applications. Subjects include book cover illustration, editorial illustration, character design and collaborative project development.
- 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 and Herron Undergraduate
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-D 303 Drawing/Illustration-Digital Rendering (3 cr.) P: HER-D 101 and 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 205 and 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-A 403 Advanced Drawing and Illustration I (6 cr.) P: HER-A303, HER-A304; Herron Undergraduate
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.
