Children's Book Illustration II: Focus on Style

Build on your illustration experience and develop your style with this fast-paced children's illustration course. We will focus on developing your children's illustration abilities by experimenting with materials and techniques, practicing characters and compositions, and creating work from the ground up--sketch to final.

Through a range of inspiring assignments, critiques, slideshows and collaborative exercises, we'll investigate environment, perspective, horizon, color, line/tone, mood, expression, body language, scale, and the unique ability illustration gives us to bring our imaginations into the picture! Prepare to have fun, work hard and be challenged.

 

Quarters Typically Offered: Spring (live online) | Fall (live online)
Course Fee: $425
Prerequisite: Children's Book Illustration I: Thinking in Pictures (ART-40634)
Contact: For more information, please email the academic department at ahl@ucsd.edu.

Note: 

This course is taught Live Online via Zoom with weekly scheduled meetings.
Course materials are accessed online via Canvas.
Further details are provided in the section notes below (when the blue bar is visible).
 

Course Number: ART-40635
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Children’s Book Illustration

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9/26/2024 - 11/21/2024

$425

Live Online

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• SECTION ID:

  184965

• CLASS TYPE:

  Synchronous web-based class meetings that are scheduled to meet online at published times (time/date).

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Hewitson, Jennifer, A freelance illustrator since 1986 nationally recognized for her editorial, publishing/ children’s books, and advertising work.

  Jennifer Hewitson has been a freelance illustrator since 1985, after graduating from California State University Long Beach with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration. Born and raised in Southern California, Jennifer has been drawing and painting since early childhood, thanks to encouragement from her parents, who were both teachers. She gained inspiration from nature and travel, which spurred many long and exotic trips across the globe. The evolution of her Illustration became both the reason for, and the result of, learning about the world. Most of Jennifer's illustrations are created on scratchboard, a thin cardboard with a clay coating, pre-inked black or left white for hand inking. Color is added to finished art. Jennifer’s illustrations have appeared in l...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  No textbook required.

• POLICIES:

  Early enrollment advised.
  No refunds after: 10/3/2024.
  Early Enrollment Discount: $400 ($425 if enrolled after 8/26/2024).
  

• NOTE:

  Synchronous web-based class meetings that are scheduled to meet online (via Zoom) at published dates and times. You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed, if you enroll on or after the published start date. To login to your course, go to your MyExtension account, select My Courses, select this course and then click the link that appears under Online Provider.

DATE	DAY	START	END	LOCATION
9/26/2024	Thu	5:00 p.m.	8:00 p.m.
10/3/2024	Thu	5:00 p.m.	8:00 p.m.
10/10/2024	Thu	5:00 p.m.	8:00 p.m.
10/17/2024	Thu	5:00 p.m.	8:00 p.m.
10/24/2024	Thu	5:00 p.m.	8:00 p.m.
10/31/2024	Thu	5:00 p.m.	8:00 p.m.
11/7/2024	Thu	5:00 p.m.	8:00 p.m.
11/14/2024	Thu	5:00 p.m.	8:00 p.m.
11/21/2024	Thu	5:00 p.m.	8:00 p.m.