Children’s Book Illustration Certificate

The Children’s Book Illustration Certificate is designed to prepare students to create content specifically in children's picture books. This certificate emphasizes book content development, processes and publishing methods. It also provides skills and strategies for students to develop their own original Intellectual properties. To fulfill the requirements in this Certificate, the student must have first taken the following courses: ART 137F Basic Drawing for entertainment Arts, ART 186 F Beginning Life Drawing, ART 120 F Basic Design, DART 100 F Intro to Digital Art, and ART 157 F Sketching for Animators and Illustrators, or by portfolio review by department

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Children’s book publishing accounts for over $4 Billion of annual US book sales. Self-published children’s books provide a forum for students to develop intellectual properties that they own, and can license to production, animation, film, and game studios. This program surveys classic Children’s books as well as modern approaches to identify those disciplines. It provides skills for creating pictures that accompany written text, and delivering product that is technically professional for both print and web publishing. This program provides structure for students to develop a book idea that can be sold, and a working process that allows them to develop more books efficiently.

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)

Required Courses: 21 units Children's Book Illustration Visual Storytelling: Structure and Form Genre and Style in Entertainment Art Composition for Artists: Elements and Principles Illustration Sketching for Animators and Illustrators- Traditional Media Techniques Digital Publishing I Introduction to Narrative Illustration Restricted Electives: 9 units Fundamentals of Cartooning Beginning Watercolor Painting Illustrating Literature Survey of Children's Literature Introduction to Printing Fundamentals of Character Design TOTAL: 33 Units ART217 F ART 218 F ART 220 F ART 222 F ART 244 F ART 247 F DART 140 F DART 148 F ART 144 F ART 188 F ART 225 F ENGL 239 F PRNT 101 F DART 110 F Children's Book Illustration Visual Storytelling: Structure and Form Genre and Style in Entertainment Art Composition for Artists: Elements and Principles Illustration Sketching for Animators and Illustrators- Traditional Media Techniques Digital Publishing I Introduction to Narrative Illustration Fundamentals of Cartooning Beginning Watercolor Painting Illustrating Literature Survey of Children's Literature Introduction to Printing Fundamentals of Character Design 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3

Fine Arts

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