Welcome Guide 2014BA (Hons) Illustration

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A welcome from your Course Leader 3

Summer project 4

Course contacts 5

Pre-arrival 6

Reading list 6

Magazines 6

Illustration & Art books 7

Equipment list 8

Course costs 10

Student checklist 11

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From your Course Leader

Welcome to BA (Hons) Illustration. In this pack you will find all the information you need to help you settle into your studies at UCA Farnham this September. We are confident you will have a great time on the course, make new friends and enjoy the challenges and rewards the course will offer you.

We’ve enclosed a summer project brief for you to complete, and a list of materials that you will find useful. We’ve also given you a list of interesting reading material. Don’t feel you have to rush out and buy them all - just have a look at as many as you can.

Illustration students will benefit from numerous resources such a first class printmaking studio, digital technology area, mediastores, Mac digital suites and bookmaking/arts.

The first year of the course will be an introduction to the essential skills and knowledge needed to establish your practice. You will experience a range of drawing methods and techniques, undertake an exploration of processes and materials across different media, cover studio methodologies and skills development, and study history of art, culture and theory.

I wish you all the best for the summer break and look forward to welcoming you in September.

Best regards

Jane Cradock-WatsonCourse Leader, BA (Hons) Illustration

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Summer project

Task

Whether you decide to sail the seven seas, go backpacking in the Himalayas, or just stay at home to save up money, your summer project is to complete a sketchbook as a visual documentation of the people, places and events you encounter this summer.

Requirements

• Use an A5 sketchbook of your choosing, NOT spiral bound.

• Your drawings must be largely from life, however you may also draw from memory or imagination as long as it has some relationship to your actual experiences.

• Use whatever media and processes you like. You may decide to draw, paint, collage, cut and paste, use found objects, or combine a number of approaches.

• This is a purely visual exercise and you have complete freedom of expression.

• Be bold, be experimental and most of all have fun!

Deadline

The work made during this task will be required for your project in the first few weeks of term.

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Course contacts

If you have any queries please contact either:

Faculty Office

01252 892794

Jane Cradock-Watson

Course Leader

jcradock-watson@ucreative.ac.uk

An answer phone service is available on all of the above lines for any out of hours enquiries.

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Wenxiao Sun

Pre-arrival

Reading list

On the Illustration course we expect our students to be active in seeking out art to enhance their knowledge and understanding of the creative world.

Here, you will find a suggested reading list including books and magazines, which are all available at www.amazon.com and the UCA Library. You can also find them at all good book stores such as Waterstones, where we recommend you spend time browsing over the summer. Keep this list as a starting guide to help your studies over the next few years. We have also included a list of websites that we would like you to explore.

Enjoy the variety and be inspired!

Magazines

The Illustrated Ape Magazine, Cross Fields, Creative Review, ROJO, V&A Magazine, The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, Baseline, Eye, Artists and Illustrators Magazine, Le Gun, 3X3, Varoom Magazine, Wrap Magazine, Nobrow.

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Charlotte Rose Turner

Illustration and Art books

Abdelouahab, Farid, Journeys and Journals: Five Centuries of Travel Writing.

Backemeyer, Sylvia (ed.), Picture This Artist as Illustrator, Coventry: The Herbert Press.

Bell, Roanne and Mark Sinclair, Pictures & Words: New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration, London: Laurence King.

Berger, John, Ways of Seeing, London: Penguin.

Blackwell, Lewis, 20th Century Remix, London: Laurence King.

Fletcher, Alan, The Art of Looking Sideways, London: Thames & Hudson.

Grosenick, U. (2005). Art Now Vol 2: the New Directory to 136 International Contemporary Artists. Koln, Taschen.

Hyland, Angus and Roanne Bell (eds), Hand to Eye Published Contemporary Illustration, London: Laurence King.

Hyland, Angus, Pen and Mouse: Commercial Art and Digital Illustration, London: Lawrence King.

Wiedemann, Julius, Illustration Now!, Koln, Taschen.

Jean, Georges, Signs Symbols & Ciphers, London: Thames & Hudson.

Le Coultre, Martijn F., A Century of Posters, Aldershot: Lund Humphries.

Madden, Matt, 99 Ways to Tell a Story, London: Jonathan Cape.

McCloud, Scott, Re-inventing Comics, New York: Paradox Press.

Noble, Ian, Picture Perfect: Fusions of Illustration and Design, Hove: Rotovision.

Poyner, Rick, Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World, London: August Media.

Saunders, Gill and Rose Miles, Prints Now: Directions and Definitions, London: V&A.

Zeegan, Lawrence, The Fundamentals of Illustration, Worthing: AVA Publishing.

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Equipment PA1 portfolio – essential for handing work in for assessment

Pair of compasses

Steel ruler – at least 50cm long

Metal set square

Dip pen and range of drawing nibs

Range of pencils – please no ‘H’ !

Graphite sticks

Old toothbrush

Putty / kneadable Rubber

Glue – BOTH Pritt type stick and PVA

Gouache paints – quality rather than quantity

Watercolour paints – quality rather than quantity

Inks – quality rather than quantity

Scissors

Scalpel and blades – Swann Morton handle / 10A blades (with a cork to store safely)

Stanley Knife

Cutting matt – At least A3 size, ideally larger

Chalk/pastel fixative

Chalk pastels

Coloured pencils

Masking tape

This is a very basic list, be imaginative with your collection of media and tools. Tip: You may want to begin a collection of interesting papers to draw on.

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Equipment PRoll of lining paper – try B&Q / Wilkinsons

Brushes – a wide range, to include watercolour sizes 3,6,12, decorators brushes

Sketchbooks- preferably hardback not spiral bound, in a range of sizes, A3 and A5 are good

Anything else that you can think of that has the potential to make interesting marks!

USB storage pen

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Course costs

Course costs for 2014/15 (excluding tuition fees)

If you are liable for tuition and registration fees these will need to be paid separately.

Costs

There will be some costs incurred during the course. The course will pay for materials used during inductions, specifically during printmaking inductions. Some materials, such as paper, charcoal and ink will be provided free of charge.

Once printmaking inductions are over you will have to pay for printmaking materials such as screens, plates, paper, etc. Any specialist materials which you might require, for example, oil paint, canvas, fine art inkjet paper, you will have to pay for yourself.

Visits

In the past, the course has made overseas trips to Paris and New York. Students must pay for these visits themselves. The Paris trip cost £270 for travel and hotel, and the New York trip £650 for travel and hotel. Field trips within the country are usually free. Each student year cohort will have one free trip per year, which might involve travelling up to London for an exhibition or going on location drawing.

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