11 Illustration Bachelor's Degree Programs

In the Illustration program, you will learn how to produce images that complement the written word or stand on their own. You’ll be encouraged to express your individual artistic voice while examining the world we live in. You will work closely with faculty and practicing illustrators in traditional and digital techniques. This program will help you grasp communication art, while also learning the business skills required to work as independent freelancers. At the end of this four-year program, you will earn a Bachelor of Design degree.

Our three-year Illustration degree program stands apart offering an international study path, offering both an unique and interdisciplinary educational opportunities. Join us to discover the ultimate means to unleash your creativity. By participating in our program, you'll be exposed to new ideas and learn how to harmonize visual intuition with the timeless art of storytelling.

Bachelors in Graphic Design and/or Bachelors in Illustration The Bachelors in Graphic Design and/or Bachelors in Illustration are 3-year programs that prepares students for major professional work in the Visual Arts. The programs offers a complete selection of courses that combine creativity, expertise and professionalism.

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.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Illustration focuses on developing students’ artistic skills and storytelling abilities through hands-on projects and specialized coursework. Students explore variou...

Understand the possibilities of illustration as a plastic artistic language depending on the message and the audience, which seeks balance and synthesis with the text for an effective message. Editorials, design studios, advertising agencies, newspapers and magazines. You can work freelance or in a dependent relationship.

It starts with an idea: a story to tell, a character to bring to life, a sequence to storyboard, or a surface to design. Combining visual language with traditional and experimental techniques, build the skills you need to prepare for a career in illustration. From sequential narratives to character design, concept art, editorial, or surface design, discover infinite possibilities for making your mark as an illustrator. With an illustration degree from Lesley, you'll blaze a trail in our contemporary visual landscape as you grow into your career as a graphic novelist, cartoonist, book illustrator, set designer, creative strategist, and many more possibilities. And, with our reimagined general education curriculum, you’ll know how to succeed in an increasingly complex, diverse, and global world. You'll leave Lesley ready to make your mark on the art world.

The “Advertising illustration” program brings together the four major spheres associated with visual communication: traditional, sequential, digital, and urban illustration. Collège Salette is the only educational institution in Quebec to offer training specifically focused on the profession of illustrator. Through this program, you will receive comprehensive and rigorous training that includes a range of styles, mediums, and techniques to highlight different illustrative concepts. In addition to approaching all facets of creation, communication, and production, you will also learn project management as well as the administrative aspects of your profession as an illustrator.

You will work closely with faculty and practicing illustrators in traditional and digital techniques. This program will help you grasp communication art, while also learning the business skills required to work as independent freelancers.

Illustrators are excited by the surprising unpredictability of contemporary imagery in our media-driven world. Learn the language of visual communication while engaging in relentless experimentation. Students encounter a range of challenges in areas that integrate animation, drawing, new media, printmaking, photography, painting, design, sound art, motion graphics, digital sculpture, and installation.

Manga is "the most easily communicated means of communication in the world." Therefore, excellent manga expression has explosive appeal and diffusion power. To develop people who can learn and understand the skills, create new expressions, and be active in society at large. That is the goal of our manga major.