Program Overview

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IU Indianapolis Campus Bulletin

IU Herron School of Art and Design

Overview of Programs

The IU Herron School of Art and Design offers a variety of programs in art and design. The school provides students with a comprehensive education in the arts, including courses in art education, art history, ceramics, drawing and illustration, fine arts, furniture design, music and arts technology, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and visual communication design.

Drawing and Illustration Program

The Drawing and Illustration program at IU Herron School of Art and Design offers a range of courses that focus on the development of technical and conceptual skills in drawing and illustration. The program includes courses such as:

• Introduction to Illustration I (HER-A 205)
• Introduction to Illustration II (HER-A 206)
• Intermediate Illustration I (HER-A 303)
• Intermediate Illustration II (HER-A 304)
• Advanced Drawing and Illustration I (HER-A 403)
• Advanced Drawing and Illustration II (HER-A 404)
• Rotating Topics in Illustration (HER-A 407)
• Children's Book Illustration (HER-A 414)

Drawing Program

The Drawing program at IU Herron School of Art and Design offers a range of courses that focus on the development of technical and conceptual skills in drawing. The program includes courses such as:

• Drawing III (HER-D 201)
• Drawing IV (HER-D 202)
• Figure Drawing (HER-D 230)
• Anatomy for Artists (HER-D 251)
• Drawing V (HER-D 301)
• Drawing VI (HER-D 302)
• Drawing/Illustration-Digital Rendering (HER-D 303)
• Drawing/Illustration-Narrative Imagery (HER-D 304)
• Drawing VII (HER-D 401)
• Drawing VIII (HER-D 402)

Course Descriptions

Introduction to Illustration I (HER-A 205)

Introduction to Illustration I familiarizes students with the building blocks of visual storytelling. Students utilize vital tools of the illustration discipline through projects focused on creative uses of composition, color, and contrast, while simultaneously developing their abilities to effectively convey emotional content and narrative concepts.

Introduction to Illustration II (HER-A 206)

Introduction to Illustration II directs the generalized exercises of the prerequisite course towards more market-specific applications. Students will create visual development assets for industries such as animation, gaming, and film. They will also focus on publishing-based projects surrounding aspects of cover art, sequential art, and picture books.

Intermediate Illustration I (HER-A 303)

Intermediate Illustration I challenges students to create illustrations as they develop personal individual styles. Projects are based on stories, editorials, and personal writing. Students research, build models, use props and costumes, and photograph figures, models, and settings as they complete an illustration. Assignments encourage students to use various narrative and visual concepts.

Intermediate Illustration II (HER-A 304)

Intermediate Illustration II builds upon concepts and skills employed by students in A303. The A304 assignments are based on professional illustration projects. Students are directed to develop the personal direction of their work in content, mood, form, and style. One project requires the students to create a series of illustrations in sequence.

Advanced Drawing and Illustration I (HER-A 403)

Advanced Drawing and Illustration I teaches contemporary standards and practices enabling each student to seek related professional opportunities upon graduation. Through a combination of drawing and illustration projects, independent investigations, and critiques, students will develop technical and conceptual skills and acquire individual styles/portfolios demonstrating myriad materials, methodologies, and philosophies.

Advanced Drawing and Illustration II (HER-A 404)

Advanced Drawing and Illustration II teaches advanced and contemporary standards and practices enabling each student to seek related professional opportunities upon graduation. Through a combination of class projects, independent investigations, and critiques, students will develop superior technical and conceptual skills to acquire an individual style/portfolio demonstrating various materials, methodologies, and philosophies.

Rotating Topics in Illustration (HER-A 407)

Rotating Topics in Illustration allows students to develop their abilities in specified, senior-level rotating topics related to contemporary Illustration studio practices.

Children's Book Illustration (HER-A 414)

Children's Book Illustration requires students to work with a preexisting children's text, develop a layout and mock-up or "dummy" of a children's picture book. Each student will then produce three finished illustrations for interior pages and/or the cover. Issues of page composition, sequential imaging, visual flow, and use of techniques will be covered.

Drawing III (HER-D 201)

Drawing III investigates drawing from nature and the human figure to expand students' knowledge of visual structures and human anatomy while emphasizing line, value, gesture, and movement. Advanced work includes interpretive approaches to figure and object drawing along with experimental use of media.

Drawing IV (HER-D 202)

Drawing IV is designed to heighten students' awareness of the abstract qualities in drawings and to expand their abilities to utilize them. While still working largely from observation, students will be increasingly required to interpret the observable world while incorporating their unique perceptions of it.

Figure Drawing (HER-D 230)

Figure Drawing focuses on elements and principles related to the human figure with drawing from live models.

Anatomy for Artists (HER-D 251)

Anatomy for Artists is a studio class that focuses on the study of human anatomy and its function in the fine arts. Course work includes lectures and study of skeletal and muscular structure of the body and is supplemented by drawings from anatomical and live models to examine the surface form of the body and its relationship to artistic anatomy.

Drawing V (HER-D 301)

Drawing V investigates traditional and nontraditional elements of space in drawing. Emphasis is placed on conceptual development and on drawing as an exploratory process and a means of producing finished works of art.

Drawing VI (HER-D 302)

Drawing VI investigates traditional and nontraditional elements of space in drawing. Emphasis is placed on conceptual development and on drawing as an exploratory process and a means of producing finished works of art.

Drawing/Illustration-Digital Rendering (HER-D 303)

Drawing/Illustration-Digital Rendering addresses a range of theories in studio practice for representation and interpretation in contextual frameworks. It provides expertise in digital art programming as artistic tools in expressing unique style, content, enabling the use of drawing tablets and navigating various software interfaces to understand capabilities, limitations, and artistic value.

Drawing/Illustration-Narrative Imagery (HER-D 304)

Drawing/Illustration-Narrative Imagery deals with a broad range of theories to advance studio practice in narrative storytelling, providing meaning through imagery. It offers a sophisticated value addition approach to visual expression in figure drawing, advancing knowledge of working with multiple interconnected layers of meaning via organization of parts to the whole.

Drawing VII (HER-D 401)

Drawing VII is concerned solely with conceptual and technical capabilities in drawing necessary to satisfy the student's individual expressive needs. A primary aim of the course is to refine and extend analytical and verbal skills by means of participation in regularly scheduled open class critiques.

Drawing VIII (HER-D 402)

Drawing VIII is concerned solely with conceptual and technical capabilities in drawing necessary to satisfy the student's individual expressive needs. A primary aim of the course is to refine and extend analytical and verbal skills by means of participation in regularly scheduled open class critiques.