Illustration / Fine Art Portfolio
About
This program is designed for developing admission portfolios for art colleges and related majors, including but not limited to illustration, fine art, and design majors. Emphasizing the creativity and interests of individual students, this program will help to build a balanced portfolio that exhibits problem solving skills in a visual context using color, design concepts, and rendering techniques.
Our Illustration Students Got Into…
With Icon’s Illustration program, our students show an amazing result in college acceptance. They are accepted by the following programs: ArtCenter College of Design, California College of the Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Laguna College of Art and Design, Maryland Institution College of Art, Otis College of Art and Design, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, Savannah College of Art and Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, School of Visual Art and other many schools! We feel very proud to have contributed to this success of our students.
Possible Careers for Illustration Major:
Animator | Concept Artists | Comic Book Illustrator | Game Artist | Graphic Designer | Illustrator | Packaging Designer | Publishing…
Learning Objectives
By the end of the program, you should be able to:
Evolve fundamental painting and drawing skills
Create 3D media artwork
Be professional in figure drawing
Identify form, space, and balance through sculpture, installation art, and material study
Prepare and present variety of work in a unified voice
Develop different styles to express your creativity
Curriculums
Level 1: Foundation Art
Level 2: Advanced Art
*Prerequisite: Foundation Art
Level 3: Illustration Portfolio or Supplemental Portfolio
*Prerequisite : Advanced Art
Why are prerequisites important?
Prerequisites are a way of making sure that students, like you, enter into a course or subject with some prior knowledge. This, not only helps the instructor to teach at a certain level, but it also helps students to feel more comfortable and confident with the subject matter.
Class Recommendation
Figure Drawing Practice & Live Figure Drawing
In figure drawing, you can learn how to capture action from the movement of the body to the balance between proportions to tensions. And this is the basic knowledge for every artist. Figure drawing also is an essential subject in every art college portfolio and can be used for various industries such as fashion, animation, gaming, etc.
Date: Every Sunday (Live Figure Drawing is only available for last Sunday of every month)
Time: 10am-1pm
Materials: Newsprint, Charcoal, Pencils & Erasers
Instructors
Songyi Park
California Institute of the Arts | MFA in Scene Design
Hongik University | BFA in Industrial Design
Peter Zhu
Rhode Island School of Design | BFA in Illustration with Honors