Bachelor of Fine Arts - Illustration

The School of Illustration's BFA program embraces the art of visual and conceptual storytelling in any medium. Students develop the skills necessary to transform themselves into skilled, distinctive, professional illustrators able meet the marketplace’s growing need for artists trained in visual problem solving in both traditional and digital media. Exciting career paths await in comics and graphic novels, children's books, advertising, editorial illustration, and interactive illustration.

Undergraduate students will meet the following student performance criteria:

Research Skills

• Conduct research for quality and usable reference
• Create coherent thumbnails, comps, and layouts

Drawing

• Effectively use line, edge, and or value
• Accurately depict gesture in proper proportion

Composition and Color

• Effectively apply value pattern and establish focal point
• Communicate underlying concept and mood
• Effectively harmonize color
• Apply perspective when appropriate

Tools and Technique

• Execute illustration work using appropriate tools and media

Personal Style

• Demonstrate evidence of individual style – personal voice

Presentation Skills

• Professionally present work, orally and digitally

Professional Development

• Demonstrate the ability to tell a story visually and meet client-based solutions
• Create a consistent, marketable, quality portfolio

*Note App Fee Waiver in effect for ApplyBoard to reduce the application fee to $50*