ILUS 382 Comic Creation

3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course

Through a planned series of lectures, demonstrations and assignments, students will explore the medium of comics as a vehicle for storytelling and narrative communication. Using a combination of imagery and typography, students will complete assignments that will further their understanding of panel and page composition, controlling pace and mood in a story, and sequential writing and character development. During the process of these projects, students will be introduced to various techniques that include a mixture of computer-based media and traditional media to develop preliminary sketches and complete finished pages. Emphasis will be placed on story development and the idea of the artist as creator.

Prerequisites Complete 12 credits from subjects IMAG, TIME, OBJT, or ENVI

This course is not repeatable for credit.