Year Two Modules


Professional Practice

At the heart of Illustration is the requirement to work to commission for a client - visually interpreting a message they want to convey to a particular audience in a given context.  Throughout this module our students respond individually or in teams to a range of creative Illustrative/image-making tasks.

We run an assignment titled 'Competitive Spirit' which is delivered in two stages: The Great Editorial Race followed by selection and completion of National/International Competition briefs.
The Great Editorial Race - where teams work together across 21 days to complete professional mock-ups of 10 editorial illustrations all to win some illustrated pounds and chocolate coins!

Kelly Walton's illustration for an article about borrowing  money

Megan Rodger's illustrate's Jools Holland 

while Briony Cloke illustrates Camila Batmanghelidjh

Sasha Seraia selected an article on sleep apnea - 

Katie Vowden's mock-up illustration - an article on Yoga as Therapy 

Dom Tsoi's mock up illustration for an article about dreams

Elliot Skelly's mock-up Little White Lies Cover - The Grand Budapest Hotel


Phill Darlington's short story illustration


In the second stage of the module, students select from a variety of national/international illustration awards - Macmillan Children's Book Prize, Penguin & Puffin Design Awards, Design Against Fur, Young Creatives Network Awards, D&AD student awards... 

























































Independent & Self Promo Practices 

As working outside the commission has become more popular, new spaces in which audiences can engage with illustration have developed over the last decade and self-directed and authorial (Illustrator as author) approaches to both creating and presenting work are explored by many Illustrators.  Work produced within this module is intended for sale so is carefully considered in terms of pricing, presentation, packaging alongside consideration of potential audiences, markets and outlets.

 Deadline Day photo's for the Independent Practices module:





Ella Doherty's jewellery range

Pauline Reeve's pencil cases
Laura Week's first adventures with collectibles using resin moulds
Laura's limited edition red squirrel screen prints


Toby Allen's mini concertina books - Monster's in Hats

Hand-painted china dolls by Jonthan Habens and Zoe Binner
A full range of products designed and produced by Joanna Birkett 

A joker from Jordan Wray's pack of cards

Dan Budd's greek myth inspired limited edition screenprints



Self Promotion 

Year two students have the opportunity to research, design and produce creative self-promotional strategies that suit their particular aspirations.  Digital, print and portfolio outcomes are explored.


Chris Dodd's self promo mask

Micah Shaw's creative CV



A one day project to produce self promo badge packs

Haz Russell's creative CV


Sequential Image-making

Within this module our students take on the role of Illustrator as storyteller or communicator through the production of sequential images.  Developing their skills in exploring image-text relationships through visual narrative, they extend their awareness of the potential contexts of Illustration and the convergence of their practice with other disciplines, such as creative writing, graphic design and animation.  

Dan Budd

James Rae

 
Isaac Goscombe

Joe Griffiths

Kadi Vowden

Mikey Coombes




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Year Three Modules


RESEARCH, EXPERIMENTATION & DEVELOPMENT


This module provides our students with the opportunity to reflect upon where they are – in terms of skills base and previous learning & experiences - and where they want to be – from personal aims for the course to career aspirations/progression.  It is about re-evaluating their potential as an Illustrator and working outside their comfort zone - therefore, year three begins with a series of one-day 'wake-up' projects:

 Dan Budd's 'Wild Swimming' illustration


Two very different responses to the 'Museum of Spectres & Spooks' one day project - the first from
Dom Tsoi, the second Jack Viant


















Chrissy Vale's editorial illustration - about the invention of the paperclip



















Jordan Wray's response to the 'Element of Surprise' workshop






















Briony Cloke's response to a one day workshop to design a cover for Roald Dahl's The Magic Finge
Briony returned to this theme later in the module to produce a set of covers - here's her Fantastic Mr Fox cover

Chris Dodd's outcome to a one day workshop on collective nouns - an intricate Owl design

Lindy Lewis's response to the same 'Owls' workshop, her emphasis throughout the day was on creating different characters through basic variations of shape and colour
Laura Jayne Weeks - another one day project to create a cover design for Anthony Bourdain's 'Kitchen Confidential'
 The same workshop, this time Ryan Salter's design

...and here's another by Emily Watkins

Emily Watkins here again, this time with 2 characters developed beyond the one-day workshops
  


CREATIVE & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Professional portfolio building is at the heart of this module as our students identify routes into the Illustration industry and as part of their transition from student to practitioner they identify their own starting points for projects.

 Jack Viant's menu concept for a Mexican restaurant








































Katie Turner's British wildlife pattern




















Caroline Morgan's re-telling of a WW2 tale





















Kelly Walton's 'Wicked Arrabella'


















Lindy Lewis ('he marched them up to the top of the hill, and he marched them down again')


James Mankiewicz - bringing those Yr1 Art & Language module hand drawn text skills to play in this 3rd year project

CREATIVE & PROFESSIONAL CONCLUSION

 This module builds upon previous achievements and culminates in a body of work that demonstrates each student's aspirations as a creative practitioner. Alongside negotiated creative briefs, they consider ways in which they can establish themselves within their chosen specialist area and how to best promote their professional portfolio.

 Dan Budd's ethical clothing brand
Jack Viant's self promo business card - a self portrait

James Rae's shortlisted book cover for the Penguin Design Awards

Detail from one of Lottie Woolnough-Rai's repeat patterns

Micah Shaw

Stu Harmer's live commissions - working in Los Angeles during YR3 for Newaza Apparel




















Sasha Seraia - from her Seven Deadly Sins editorials
























Angie Henriques' 'Made in Great Britain' greetings cards and prints
































Sam Thorne's 'gig posters' inspired by thoughts and experiences as a student





















Images from Ben Challen's wonderful self-authored narrative The Ghost Explorer 


Emily Watkins 'The Doll's House'


Jonathan Habens' final images of the course were an extension of his dissertation on representations of androgyny - here his portrait of male model Andrej Pejic


Laura Jayne Weeks ended the year and her degree with the splendid 'Sad Circus '





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