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Introduction to Illustration

ART-40428

10 Weeks | Live Online

Learn the fundamentals of illustration by exploring the link between language and image. Translate ideas, text, or narrative into pictures that communicates to others. Through demonstration, in-class exercises and homework projects, students will work on both concept and drawing skills. Basic techniques of using pen and ink, ink wash, and opaque paint (tempera or acrylic) will be covered.

Quarters Offered: Winter, Summer | Live Online
Course Fee: $325
Course Length: 10 weeks
Prerequisite: Drawing I: Focus on Perception (ART-40166) or equivalent experience.
Note: Elective course for Art and the Creative Process professional certificate and Children's Book Illustration professional certificate. 

Materials: Materials list is based on instructor:

Instructor Michelle McCunney: 11x14 sketchbook (Strathmore Sketch recommended), 6B pencil, sharpener, Staedler white eraser for first class meeting. Full materials will be available in the first week of class.
Instructor Kelsey Worth: pencil, eraser, watercolor palette, mixed sizes watercolor brushes (Princeton synthetic recommended), fine liner pen (Sakura Micron sizes .01, .02, .03), Sakura Pigma Brush Pen (3PC Black Set), painter’s tape, Bristol Paper Pad, 11 x 14 Strathmore Mixed Media Paper Pad or Hot Press Watercolor Paper, Winsor & Newton Watercolor Tube set, Prismacolor Colored Pencils 

Course Information

Live Online
3.00 units
$300.00

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This course applies to these programs

Art and the Creative Process Children’s Book Illustration

Course sessions

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Section ID:

186149

Class type:

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

Textbooks:

No textbook required.

Policies:

  • No refunds after: 1/15/2025
  • Early Enrollment Discount: $300 ($325 if enrolled after 12/9/2024)
  • Early enrollment advised
  • No visitors permitted

Note:

SCBWI/MOPA/SDMA members can receive our $25 Early Enrollment discount prior to course start date. The max discount a member can receive for one class is $25. It is applied upon course enrollment over the phone or in person with proof of membership. This is a live online course; all class sessions are taught via Zoom. Course materials like the syllabus and handouts are delivered online. Login on your MyExtension account, select My Courses and click the link under LOCATION.

Schedule:

Date Day Start End
1/8/2025 Wed 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
1/15/2025 Wed 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
1/22/2025 Wed 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
1/29/2025 Wed 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
2/5/2025 Wed 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
2/12/2025 Wed 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
2/19/2025 Wed 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
2/26/2025 Wed 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
3/5/2025 Wed 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
3/12/2025 Wed 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
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Instructor: Michelle McCunney

Michelle McCunney

Michelle received a master's in visual arts from the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (UNAM) in Mexico City and bachelor's in visual arts from the University of California San Diego. She has taught painting, drawing and illustration for university programs in Mexico and the US since 1988. Michelle´s art revolves mainly around the animals she observes, and their stories of habitat loss.  

She teaches the following courses for the Professional Certificate in Art and the Creative Process:

- Drawing I: Focus on Perception
- Drawing II: Refining Technique
- Watercolor I: Basic Techniques and Materials
- Intermediate Watercolor
- Introduction to Painting 

When Michelle is not teaching she enjoys playing blues and hiking with her family, always keeping an eye out for wildlife. She is working on a book about animal scientists.

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