Graphic Design: Digital Illustration - Certificate

Graphic Design: Digital Illustration - Certificate

The Certificate of Achievement in Digital Illustration provides the basic skills for students interested in the field of digital illustration. Graduates of the program might seek employment as medical, book, magazine, or newspaper illustrators, create illustrative work for training, and promotion in a corporate environment, or create digital illustrations for digital media projects and/or the web. Students learn technical and creative skills used in the creation of illustrations using both raster based and vector based software tools, while working on projects such as product illustrations. Many illustrators work as freelancers, and this is a competitive field which requires skill, drive, and talent to succeed. The classes in the core requirements should be taken in the general order that they are listed.

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Program Learning Outcomes:

• Students will identify and apply the fundamentals of vector art creation and manipulation.
• Students will create technical product illustrations using both the vector and raster tools in Adobe Photoshop.
• Students will create original illustrations using a combination of Illustrator's creative tools, including various free-form drawing tools.

To earn this certificate, students must complete the minimum required courses with a grade of C (or P) or better.

Core Curriculumn Courses (Required):

• Students must take one of the: drawing (31B or 34A), digital art/intro to photoshop (064 or 062) and illustrator classes (062 or 066)

plus additional course(s) requrired from the following to bring your total to a minimum of 17.0 units. Courses may not be repeated from the above list.

Career/Transfer Opportunities:

Career opportunities include the following: illustration, graphic arts production, advertising, web production, and fine art.