Program Information
Illustration and Design is a three-year program that trains students to work as professional illustrators and designers. It concentrates on the development of illustration techniques and visual concepts in distinct areas such as advertising, editorial, animation and technical illustration. Students make use of state-of-the-art digital technology as well as traditional approaches. Dawson College is the only Anglophone college in Quebec to offer Illustration and Design.
During the first year of the program, emphasis is given to exercises in drawing, painting, drafting and photography. The second year focuses on studies in illustration techniques, visual concepts, computer-aided drawing and design, and reproduction techniques.
In the final year, the program deals with the application of illustration in digital and classical animation, advertising, architecture, and publications, as well as its use in print, audio-visual and electronic media.
Components of presentation design and exhibit design are also included in the program.
Skills acquired in the program are:
- producing a variety of illustrations in media such as pencil, ink, pastels, watercolour, acrylics, airbrush, etc.
- producing computer-generated artwork
- completing two- and three-dimensional animation projects
- producing technical and architectural illustrations from specifications or sketches
Career Opportunities
- advertising studios or agencies
- animation studios
- art departments of retail stores
- architectural and engineering firms
- manufacturing industries
- printing companies
- television studios
- freelance illustration
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