This Blog is authored by three people: the BA (Hons) Illustration team at CSAD:
Chris Glynn (paymoreattention), Subject Leader.
Amelia Johnstone (ameliajohnstone), Lecturer.
Anna Bhushan, Lecturer.
(SpikeDennis)
This blog is a playful space where we will post interesting things that we find, and interesting things that we do.
The menu on the right contains a link to our official Illustration course website, some links to our other websites, and links to a selection of our student’s blogs and portfolios.
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ABOUT ILLUSTRATION AT CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN (CSAD),
Illustration is a far-reaching, critical discipline for the 21st Century, connecting historically established practice with contemporary visual enquiry and technological experimentation. At Cardiff, we are pioneering ambitious developments in its teaching, practice and research. Illustration speaks to all people on all levels, and even in desensitised, image-saturated arenas it can enchant, inform and inspire.
BA (Hons) Illustration is a unique, intense three-year course inspired by a vast potential for communication, and taught by enthusiastic and varied practitioners. Digital and analogue processes sit side-by-side and the importance of teamwork, as well as individual excellence, is recognised.
Dedication to your subject, especially drawing, is important to your success as an illustrator. By exploring different methodologies, we ask what drawing is, how it can be used, and what makes ‘good’ drawing? It does not necessarily involve a piece of paper and a pencil!
Graduates may choose to follow careers in illustration and design professions, pursuing opportunities in publishing, animation, film, TV and the Web. By developing transferable planning, communication, and critical skills graduates may also find career pathways into other creative and influential roles: illustrators work as catalysts, fuelling conversations and collaborations of consequence.
Graduates also continue within academia, studying illustration at Masters level.
(see http://cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/courses/illustration/).
I am considering studying illustration at degree level- I love drawing and would love to be an illustrator. I am considering studying this a Loughborough university but after seeing your blog I think I may have made the wrong decision! You seem very dedicated and inspirational.
Dear Beth,
We would welcome your application, we seek to find thoughtful, delightful engaging students with who we can pursue the discipline in a triumphant and important way.
Please look at Cardiff School of Art and Design csad.uwic.ac.uk website for details of how to apply, if you have ay trouble please email ajohnstone@uwic.ac.uk
very best wishes, and keep working hard
Amelia