Credit Points: 30
Study Time: 300 Hours

This unit will lead you to reassert your creative practice as an artist, image-maker or illustrator as you move towards the end of Level 4. You will now be in a position to explore your own individual response to a research problem and to take a sustained, progressive and developmental approach to resolving this problem satisfactorily. You will critically examine the aesthetic, moral, ethical and social contexts of Illustration and develop a creative approach to contextualising your own creative practice. To this end you will be asked to produce a body of work based on a suitable theme. You will interrogate and investigate this theme with appropriate academic rigour before producing a series of images, some or all of which will be formatted collectively as part of a group presentation. The work at the end of the unit will be presented in a way that is deemed appropriate to the project.

Outline Syllabus
(An indicative guide to the content covered in this unit.) 

• Selecting, exploring and testing an idea through continued reflection and evaluation and presentation
• Thinking about publishing, exhibiting or otherwise beginning to promote your practice to a wider audience
• Social contexts of Illustration practice
• Potential for collaborative practice and exploring the relationships made between creators and/or audience
• Portfolios and their uses
• Producing work in series
• 3D Illustration workshop (making, casting, building, constructing)
• Bookbinding

Method of Delivery
Lectures, seminars, studio based project work, presentations, group critiques, workshops, study trips, tutorials and independent study.

Aims

A1 To provide an awareness of aesthetic, moral, ethical and social contexts in order to develop an understanding of informed creative decision-making
A2 To promote an historical and technological awareness of the relationships between screen and print based media
A3 To utilise a strategic approach to resolving and communicating solutions to creative problems

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit you will be able to:

LO1 Relate your own practice to wider aesthetic, moral, ethical, social and technical concerns
LO2 Demonstrate a broad contextual awareness of the development of your practical work in relation to the creative exploration of appropriate media
LO3 Appropriately manifest and present your ideas in relation to the potential development of your practice as an illustrator

Reference Material

Key
Rose, G. (2007). Visual methodologies. 2nd ed. London: Sage.

Recommended
Duncan, C. (1995). Civilizing rituals: inside public art museums. London: Routledge.
Goffman, E. (1969. The presentation of the self in everyday life. London: Penguin.
Klanten, R., Ehmann, S. and Hubner, M. (eds.) (2007). Tactile: high touch visuals. Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag.
Salisbury, M. (2007). Play pen: new children's book Illustration. London: Laurence King.
Vago-Laurer, V. (ed.) (2005). Area. Oxford: Phaidon Press.

Also recommended
Le Gun. (2010). Le Gun 1-3: Magazine of International Illustration. London: Mark Batty.  
3x3 The Magazine