Illustration (Hons) University of Gloucestershire

Overview

The Illustration (Hons) course from University of Gloucestershire first year will allow you to find what drives your practice. The second year explores audience, the wider world, and your place in it as an artist. In the third year students develop practice-based research methods and bring to life an independent project for the degree show.

The modern design facilities include printmaking studios, an Apple Mac suite, Risograph machine, letterpress workshop and book-binding equipment. We encourage students to explore illustration through all kinds of media and you can also learn on our laser cutters, 3D printers, and have access to our woodshop and ceramics studio.

We teach to develop students into autonomous learners, where curiosity leads the work that you do. Our studio provides a desk for each student and you can expect to be in the studio 30 hours a week.

You’ll also begin preparing for industry, developing your expertise in self-publishing and promotion. You’ll be equipped with the creative, technical and enterprise skills you need to progress into the creative industries on graduation.

Career opportunities:

The illustration graduates go on to all kinds of career possibilities. Students complete a placement in the second year so they start to learn what avenue they want to pursue. They work with freelance illustrators, social justice organisations, animation studios, and many other studios. As a course we visit or collaborate with Thought Bubble, London Book Fair, The Wilson Museum, and Cheltenham Literature Festival. We invite publishers, agents, and working illustrators throughout the year and go out to studio visits, including Jelly London, NoBrow Press, and Handsome Frank.

After graduation, the alumni excel in various creative fields, such as children’s books, comics, animation, editorial illustration, surface pattern design, graphic design, concept art, game art, and publishing.