Illustration

About this course

Illustration is the art of creating images that communicate: images that tell stories, explain ideas, evoke emotions, or establish visual identities in contexts ranging from books and magazines to digital media, advertising, and public art. It is a discipline that sits between fine art and graphic design, requiring both the freedom of artistic vision and the discipline to serve a communicative purpose, and it rewards practitioners who have a distinctive visual voice alongside the technical range to work across different media and contexts. Understanding how images are made and how they function in the world is as much a part of illustration as the making itself. At Leeds Arts University this three-year programme takes you on a creative journey through communication, image-making, and conceptual thinking. You will develop your own practice across a range of media and approaches, building

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