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2024-2025 College Catalog 
    
2024-2025 College Catalog

DAR 140 - Digital Arts IllustrationStudio:Illustration Technique & Media

4 Credits, 5 Contact Hours
3 lecture periods 2 lab periods
Basic principles, techniques and media applied to digital and traditional illustration styles, subject matter used in print illustration. Includes subject, media, technique, composition, and professional environment.

Prerequisite(s): DAR 101  
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Course Learning Outcomes
  1. Determine a subject for an illustration.
  2. Use various media and techniques to create an illustration.
  3. Use composition of elements to control focus and message in an illustration.
  4. Work within a professional environment with specifications and deadlines.

Outline:
  1. Subject
    1. Character
    2. Story
    3. Object
  2. Media
    1. Ink
    2. Colored pencil
    3. Collage/paper construction
    4. Paint
    5. Three-dimensional modeling
  3. Technique
    1. Traditional
    2. Digital
    3. Combination
  4. Composition
    1. Dynamic
    2. Static
  5. Professional Environment
    1. Deadlines
    2. Critiques


Effective Term:
Full Academic Year 2019/2020