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Art of Illustration

  • Ages: 18+
  • Term: Autumn, spring
  • Length: 10 weeks

Overview

On this 10-week course, you'll explore the world of illustration, from brief to concept to final artwork, with the aim of developing your personal style of image making.

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About this course

On this highly practical course you’ll look at different approaches to art, design and illustration to help inform the development of your artwork and to understand illustration in the context of visual culture today.

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Meet your tutor

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Toby Fox Drew

Toby Fox Drew is an illustrator and educator living and working on the south coast of the UK. Toby’s work is largely character-driven...

Beyond the course

This could just be the start of your creative journey! After this course, you could further your digital design skills with another short course or look to the future and explore our creative qualifications that can prepare you to further your current career, enable you to retrain to an alternative career path or prepare you for future creative arts studies.

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Why choose AUB for your short course?

We're a first-choice provider of art and design short courses for anyone wishing to engage in art and design subjects in their spare time.

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Reasons to study a short course

There are plenty of reasons to consider studying a creative short course. Perhaps you want to retrain, learn new skills, or just have fun...

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How to book

Looking to book onto one of our Evening and Saturday courses? You’ll find everything you need to book your place here.

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