Illustration with Foundation Year - BA (Hons)

Arts University Bournemouth

On BA (Hons) Illustration at AUB, you will experiment, test, and develop your creative practice. Curriculum and studio culture is prioritised around the space to build fun and engaging cultural product. In this environment, you will shape a skillset with appropriate tools, media, and conceptual approaches. With this aim in mind, students take part in workshops, lectures, seminars and more within our curriculum focused illustration studios located in Arts University Bournemouth’s exciting cultural learning specialised campus.Illustration is a way of seeing and understanding the world as well as a way of applying image making skills in a commercially relevant way. Throughout the course you will challenge and interrogate the way you think about illustration, imagery, and style, guided by a dynamic course team consisting of specialist practitioners. Visiting lecturers and industry partners also place considerable emphasis on the realities of working within the professional environment and the wider creative community.Overall, the course aims to foster rich, distinctive illustration-based practice. You will explore a range of processes and techniques from drawing, painting, and printmaking, towards digital painting, moving image, games art, CGI and more! This broad palette of creative strategies will let you hone and choose your own professional visual identity. The intention is for you to build a tool kit enabling connection and communication with diverse audiences across the multitude of contemporary platforms accessible in our world today.

+ Relate the specialist knowledge and skills that you have chosen to develop on the course to the dynamic possibilities of the commercial and cultural creative landscape.+ Critically evaluate discourses and practices, making informed judgements using an appropriate range of sources from both within and beyond the field of illustration.+ Make coherent visual statements integrating observation, analysis, interpretation, and speculation.+ Develop and refine ways of making and thinking about image through engagement with cultural, social, environmental, theoretical, and historical contexts.+ Apply transferable skills, exercise initiative and personal responsibility with the ambition of building sustainable post degree audience-based practice.

If you feel you need some extra preparation before the full undergraduate degree experience, this Integrated Foundation Year (IFY) might be for you. IFY is for those who may not have the academic qualifications needed for admission onto the degree course or perhaps want the time and space to develop a foundation in creative and conceptual skills. It is intended to be a bridge between pre-university study and the academic rigour of an undergraduate degree. After IFY, you will hit the ground running – ready to take on your chosen undergraduate degree course and lean into the learning opportunities.Students enrolled on the IFY will be a part of a cohort with other students in IFY courses across the School of Arts and Communication. Incorporating opportunities for you to work alongside your classmates, integrating opportunities for collaboration and fostering professional relationships to carry you throughout your degree and into your professional practice.The School of Arts and Communication Foundation Year currently encompasses degrees in the following fields:- BA (Hons) Commercial Photography- BA (Hons) Fine Art- BA (Hons) Graphic Design- BA (Hons) Illustration- BSc (Hons) Photography