Objetivos: – The course helps prepare students to learn to confront the creative challenges of elaborating illustrations with content and form. – The course covers two parallel processes: firstly, developing the dexterity of drawing in each of the course projects, from the beginnings in brainstorming sessions, with thumbnails, to later finished hand made illustrations; and secondly, developing each student’s work with content and meaning; its elaboration with visual metaphors and creative invention. – The course stresses the importance of content and meaning in image making. That is why it contains classes that analyze myths, archetypes, and symbols. These empower us with an ability to communicate with images, and are found everywhere in a broad cultural realm of our society. – The course invites student to experiment with different traditional artistic materials and handmade techniques, and also create work with an emphasis on personal style.

Requisitos: The application for all IED Barcelona courses is made directly with the Orientation and Admissions Department Advisors or through an online Admissions Platform. Your Advisor will give you the credentials to access the platform once you want to start the Admission Process.

A quién va dirigido: This course is for students interested in design areas such as illustration, graphic and visual arts and other image related activities, and that have some background and experience in drawing and painting. It is also for those that are interested in learning how to create and elaborate handmade art-material illustrations with a special emphasis on drawing, as well as the use of inventive resources. It is for helping to explore processes that generate illustrations as visual metaphors. Skills Developed Our course offers a chance to test the student’s creative capacities with art materials that help realize each and everyone of their artistic talents. Many students have already studied Graphic Design and want to take a step back and have a chance to test their capabilities and dextrecity with traditional art materials. Some students may only work with computer visual design applications. It is after they experience the challenge of working with materials like watercolor and collage, that they can return to their digital graphic tools and excel with a new gained powerful creative art experience. Students learn to establish a sort of dialectices between the digital and real sensorial world.