Fall 2014: Illustration
Illustration has always helped define (or energize) the story and as a result, has helped
record the diverse human experience and related visual narratives. Illustration has had
many faces and various venues always seeming in flux, moving forward and transitioning
now toward what seems to be a new personal view. This morphing of purpose and exciting
change continues. It’s definition, dependent upon the avant-garde creative and passionate
producers who through their cutting edge work, inform us of it’s ever changing direction,
culture and identity.
Here at KCAI, we value and help deliver to the external community, young artists that
mirror our unique interpretation of those narratives and help celebrate them as the
visual essay. The art we develop and form for print or the screen, individually or
collaboratively, is creative, thoughtful, innovative, and communicative.
The illustration program emphasizes the development of unique and effective imagemaking skills, a contemporary approach to creative visual solutions and the professional
practice necessary to help promote living life as a productive artist and as a viable
contributor to the ever-changing visual culture.
Illustration – Required Curriculum
FALL 2014 / SPRING 2015
SOPHOMORE YEAR
FALL
Sophomore Studio:
Organic Perceptions
3.0
Color and Space
3.0
Analytical Drawing Systems
3.0
Storytellers and Myth-Makers
3.0
Mechanical Perceptions
0.0
Graphic Form for Illustrators
0.0
Image and Form Exploration
0.0
SPRING
JUNIOR YEAR
Junior Studio:
Conceptual Problem Solving
Paper and Ink
US (Collaboration)
Narrative Image
Covers and Pages
ME (Individual Expression)
SPRING
Studio Elective
Liberal Arts
Studio Elective
Liberal Arts
SENIOR YEAR
Senior Studio:
Image Thesis I
Launch Pad
Professional Practice
Image Thesis II
Cultural Safari
Internship/Mentorship
Open Elective
Liberal Arts
0.0
3.0
15.0
FALL
3.0
3.0
3.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
3.0
6.0
18.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
3.0
3.0
3.0
3.0
6.0
18.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
3.0
3.0
3.0
3.0
9.0
18.0
FALL
SPRING
0.0
6.0
15.0
3.0
3.0
15.0
3.0
3.0
3.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
3.0
3.0
3.0
Fall 2014 Course Offerings
ILLU200
Organic Perceptions
3.0 credit hours
This course will introduce to the student a representational drawing system of recording
organic structures. Figure drawing, thru an understanding of human anatomy and animal
drawing, also through similar anatomy, will both act as a drawing foundation for additional
study. This course requires a sketchbook, in addition to course work, and an exit exam.
-01
-02
Mayse
Ferry
MW 8:00-10:50am
MW 8:00-10:50am
JG105
JG102
Capacity 15
Capacity 15
ILLU210
Color and Space
3.0 credit hours
Color theory, both cmyk and rgb, will be realized through the hands-on painting experience
in this course. An understanding of 3-deminsional space through collage, still-life
construction and models will add to the student’s formative experience.
-01
-02
Ferry
Richardson
MW 2:30-5:20am
MW 2:30-5:20am
JG102
JG105
Capacity 15
Capacity 15
ILLU235
Analytical Drawing Systems
3.0 credit hours
Students will explore various drawing systems that together will help establish their
understanding of the basics of defining a visual result. 1-2-3 point perspective, plan
drawing, top-front-side view drawing, isometric and other systems will make up the
content of this course.
-01
Mayse
MW 11:30am-2:20pm
JG105
Capacity 15
-02
Benson
MW 11:30am-2:20pm
JG102
Capacity 15
ILLU250
Storytellers and Myth Makers
3.0 credit hours
Discussion and related narrative projects will help the student discover the value of the
artist’s role in society as a story-teller and myth maker. This course will cover ethics,
codes, various other professional opportunity issues and be supported by area (external
community) visiting artist professionals.
A liberal arts connection can support the value of the personal story.
-01
-02
Casanova
Benson
MW 6:00-8:50pm
MW 6:00-8:50pm
JG101
JG103
Capacity 15
Capacity 15
ILLU300
Conceptual Problem Solving
3.0 credit hours
In this course, the student will undergo exercises and/or projects that will support the
building of the smart visual image. Sound idea generation, the metaphor, the mind map,
21 ways of wit, the visual pun and other types of incorporating intelligence in the visual
image are explored as a foundation in the visual building process.
-01
-02
Cluthe
Hatem
MW 8:00-­‐10:50am
MW 8:00-10:50am
JG104
JG100
Capacity 15
Capacity 15
-01
-02
Cluthe
Strahm
MW 11:30am-­‐2:20pm
MW 11:30am-2:20pm
JG104
JG103
Capacity 15
Capacity 15
-01
-02
Cluthe
Casanova
MW 2:30-­‐5:20pm
MW 2:30-5:20pm
JG104
JG103
Capacity 15
Capacity 15
-01
-02
Terrill
Strahm
MW 8:00-­‐10:50am
MW 8:00-10:50am
JG101
JG103
Capacity 15
Capacity 15
ILLU310
Paper and Ink
3.0 credit hours
Editorial image production will be introduced in this course. Sequential story boarding,
the narrative forming (beginning, middle and end of the story), roughs to finished art
and construction of a book project will fill the eight-week session. Emphasis will be on
the personal story as content for the work.
ILLU315
US: Collaboration, Teamwork and Flexibility
3.0 credit hours
An opportunity to experience collaboration and flexibility will be the focus in this course.
The group dynamic can produce very interesting creative solutions. Learning to work in
a group, understanding the client partnership, the shedding of one’s ego, the collective
brainstorming process, or working with the (non-for-profit) external community can be
a part of this class. A liberal arts connection can help support the collaboration aspect
between the visual artist and the writer artist.
ILLU400
Image Thesis I
3.0 credit hours
This course offers a further opportunity to research and develop a personal body of
work that will represent the student’s personal voice. Emphasis will be focused on the
building of a visual resource library of files that acts as a foundation for the forming of
the personal portfolio thesis.
ILLU410
Professional Practice
3.0 credit hours
A seminar devoted to bringing artists in for discussions about the aspects of the practice:
business maintenance, entrepreneurship, self-promotion, ethics and guidelines,
contracts, records, billing, and other issues that are supported by the graphic artist guild
standards and practices and also supported by the IPA (Illustrators Partnership
Association).
-01
-02
Terrill
Baszta
MW 11:30am-­‐2:20pm
MW 11:30am-2:20pm
JG100
JG102
Capacity 15
Capacity 15
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-02
Terrill
Wilkes
MW 2:30-­‐5:20pm
MW 2:30-5:20pm
JG101
JG100
Capacity 15
Capacity 15
ILLU413
Launchpad
3.0 credit hours
The students will experience in this class an emphasis and attention to the process and
implementation of artwork for promotion as it relates to student competitions in the
print industry. These student competitions will, with other necessary venues, foster a
pro-active future involvement in self- promotion as an aspect vital to a successful
professional practice. In this class, the tools of promotion (website, leave-behind, image
identity, biz card/post card, etc.) will give the student an early start to promoting their
work.
Illustration Electives
ILLE220
Children’s Book Illustration
3.0 credit hours
Students enrolling in this class will cover the various aspects of creating and/or building
a children’s book. Areas of concentration will reflect all aspects of children’s book
construction: artist-client communication, artist-writer communication, ideation, design,
layout, rough sketches, comps and finished art for print and publication.
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-02
Kolar
Staff
TR 6:00-­‐8:50pm
TR 6:00-8:50pm
JG103
JG105
Capacity 15
Capacity 15
ILLE350
Biomedical Visualization and Illustration
3.0 credit hours
The visual artist is a valuable component to biomedical research. When data is
generated and research findings are published the scientists turn to the artist to
communicate these results to peers and to the public. A well-trained Medical Illustrator
is a multidisciplinary visual problem-solver that will be the bridge between complex
biomedical information and the public understanding. The participating students, in this
elective course, will be introduced to some of the main functions of the medical
illustrator today.
-01
Fernald
MW 6:00-­‐8:50pm
JG105
Capacity 15
ILLE365
Illustration Process
3.0 credit hours
Students will have the opportunity to practice the processes (methods) related to the
practice of illustration. the core of this course will be a focus on how the professional
illustrator works independently or with the art director/designer to produce visuals
necessary for any medium. we will focus also on the creative, aesthetic, thoughtful,
content-based, story-telling aspects of editorial and book work. Research, ideation,
problem solving techniques and forming the image as a creative and contemporary
solution will be integral to this unique course's productivity results, while balancing
processes that may range from painting, drawing, silkscreen, collage, 3-d and/or mono
print through to the digital realm of possibilities.
-01
-02
Ferry
Willaredt
TR 6:00-­‐8:50pm
TR 6:00-8:50pm
JG101
JG100
Capacity 15
Capacity 15