Illustration and Printmaking

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. engage the processes of illustration and printmaking; 2. explore innovative engagements; and 3. situate processes for a variety of visual communications contexts.

This course seeks to provide a studio exploratory experience on diverse illustration media for artistic self-expression and the printmaking medium. Relief and reduction, dry point and etching, screen printing techniques, lithography, and photographic processes shall constitute the core focus for the provision of competence in artistic self-expression. Students are made to learn techniques conducive to artistic growth, which is coupled with a sound, well-rounded background in the concepts, history, and craft of printmaking. Assignments stress the specificity of the medium, while regarding illustration studio assignments will range from illustrating the industry’s product, educational/social awareness campaigns to the generation of imagery for texts.