Savannah College of Art and Design
B.A. in Illustration
Savannah, USA
DURATION
180 Hours
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
USD 41,130 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* total, full-time student for one academic year
Introduction
- ARTH 701 Contemporary Art
- ILLU 701 Media and Techniques
- ILLU 714 Drawing for Illustrators
- ILLU 727 Illustration Concepts and Composition
- ILLU 730 Digital Solutions for Illustration
- ILLU 735 Illustration Markets
- ILLU 742 Directed Projects in Illustration
- ILLU 749 Illustration M.A. Final Project
- Select one of these three options:
- ILLU 779 Graduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- 500- to 700-level elective
- ILLU 779 Graduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- 500- to 700-level elective
Total course of study: 45 hours*
Admissions
Curriculum
Foundation studies: 25 hours
- DRAW 100 Drawing I: Form and Space
- DSGN 100 Design I: Elements and Organization
- DRAW 101 Drawing II: Composition and Media
- DSGN 101 Color: Theory and Application
- DRAW 200 Life Drawing I
General education: 85 hours
- COMM 105 Speaking of Ideas
- BUSI 110 Business I: Fundamentals
- CTXT 121 Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives
- CTXT 122 Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities
- ENGL 123 Ideas to Ink: Critical Concepts in Academic Writing
- DIGI 130 Digital Communication
- ARTH 207 20th-century Art
- BUSI 220 Business II: Economic Principles
- PHIL 301 Aesthetics
- ARLH or ARTH elective
- ENGL elective
- ENGL elective
- General education elective
- General education elective
- Mathematics/natural sciences elective
- Social/behavioral sciences elective
- Social/behavioral sciences elective
Major curriculum: 50 hours
- ILLU 100 Introduction to Illustration Strategies
- ILLU 160 Illustrative Anatomy and Perspective
- ILLU 204 Historical and Contemporary Illustration
- ILLU 218 Materials and Techniques
- ILLU 225 Digital Illustration
- ILLU 309 Illustrating Beyond the Page: The Narrative Experience
- ILLU 312 Color with Intent
- ILLU 321 Animated Illustration
- ILLU 325 Editorial Illustration
- Select one of these three options:
- ILLU 479 Undergraduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- Business-focused elective
- ILLU 479 Undergraduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- Business-focused elective
Additional electives: 20 hours
Total course of study: 180 hours
Career Opportunities
Become an art director. Become a book illustrator. Become an illustrator for game design. As a SCAD-educated artist, you will learn to use everything from cutting-edge digital technology to tried-and-true pen and ink to create dazzling illustrations. A variety of careers await upon graduation, including commercial illustration, book cover design, and film storyboarding.
Launch your career as a professional:
- Advertising illustrator
- Art director
- Graphic novel artist
- Animation character designer
- Entertainment design illustrator
- Illustrator for game design
- Storyboard artist
- Muralist
- Book illustrator
And get recruited and hired by the best of the best:
- Walt Disney Imagineering
- Comedy Central
- The New York Times
- Bento Box Entertainment
- A&E
- Game Informer
- Converse
- Revolver Studios
- ImagineFX