Illustration - Draw Yourself Here!
WATKINS' LIGIA TEODOSIU CONTINUES WREAKING HAVOC IN LOCAL, REGIONAL, AND NATIONAL COMPETITIONS, WINNING A GOLD AWARD FOR ILLUSTRATION AT AIGA'S 4TH ANNUAL TENN SHOW.
Ligia Teodosiu received five awards, including three Honorable Mentions, one Silver, and a Gold Award for her captivating "Little Red Riding Hood" illustration series. Stephen Jones added to Watkins’ success at AIGA’s 4th Annual Tenn Show with two Honorable Mentions for Brochure, and Package Design.
Tenn Show, the state’s most prestigious juried design competition, was open to professionals and students throughout Tennessee involved in designing visual and creative communications in print, motion graphics, packaging and seven other categories, plus student and pro bono work. Over 200 AIGA members and non-members participated and their work was judged by a panel of creative professionals from each Tennessee AIGA chapter. (from AIGA’s website)
Ligia Teodosiu'S "RED RIDING HOOD" is juried into the 2010 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition.
Selected from over 6,000 submissions, 195 college-level illustrations were chosen for the 2010 Student Scholarship Competition, including Ligia’s haunting interpretation of “Little Red Riding Hood.” Works will be on exhibit at the Society’s Museum of American Illustration, May 5- 29. The Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship is considered one of the top student illustration competitions in the world. This year’s competition received 6205 entries, the largest in the competition's history. This is the third year in a row that a Watkins graphic design major has been accepted into this exhibition.
Poster & illustration series by Julian Baker selected for publication in CMYK Magazine*! to hit newsstands in february 2010.
CMYK Magazine #46: Call For Aspiring Creatives is open to emerging artists across the globe. The publication will include Julian’ s screenprinted Neanderpaul poster, and Woodland Creatures-a series of four whimsical animal portraits. Due out on newsstands everywhere in February 2010. “When it rains it pours. I am blown away by all this recent publicity …Maybe someone will take notice.”—Julian Baker, Fall 2009 graduate
*A quarterly magazine with a reach of 70,000, CMYK Magazine is where creative directors, agency principals and art buyers recruit students and recent graduates at today's top art-design schools: art directors, copywriters, designers, photographers and illustrators.
SHOW ME A STORY—PICTURE BOOK ART BY WATKINS STUDENTS, at lush
Friday, December 11th, we opened a public exhibition of Illustration 2’s final picture book series at the swingin’ Lush Gallery & Playground on lovely Lake Amulet. The warmful show was a treat for eyes & ears on a chilly night. Featuring 48 killer pics by 16 killer student illustrators, and 3 hours of rockin’ tunes offered up by Nashville’s beloved Ukedelics, it was an evening full of smiling faces and dancing legs. The perfect end to a wildly productive semester. Thank you Lindsey Armstrong for the awesome invitation and exhibition graphics!
WATKINS INTRODUCES ILLUSTRATION 3—VISITING ILLUSTRATORS
Travis Foster & Isle of Printing's Bryce McCloud ramp things up a notch, adding serious fun to Watkins new Illustration concentration.
An exciting addition to the college, Illustration 3 will weave guest professionals, active on a national level, into the curriculum. Beginning Spring 2010, Travis Foster and Bryce McCloud will take the reigns, challenging serious student illustrators with stimulating assignments designed to advance their skillset and knowledge of the field while introducing valuable new techniques and perspectives. The class will include guest professionals, field trips, and workshop sessions. With Illustration 1 AND Illustration 3 running concurrently this spring, it will truly be “Illustration Friday” on campus.
Frequent contributors to Watkins' illustration classes, Travis and Bryce are respected locally and nationally as forward thinking, quick-witted image makers, beloved by high & low brows, the well-heeled and the barefoot, corporate minds hungry for levity…and lovers of chocolate and art. Let's ride!
Image by Travis Foster.
Shelby Rodeffer's Illustration chosen to promote the American Artisan Festival!
Rodeffer's witty interpretation of the festival as a cuckoo clock appears on the festival's 2009 poster.
Nancy Saturn, festival organizer and recipient of Watkins' first Arts Advocacy Award, presented the festival poster as an assignment to fifteen talented students in Illustration 1 class. A beloved Nashville event, the American Artisan Festival benefits Gilda's Club and includes craft artists from across the United States. Celebrating its 39th year, the festival will be held June 19-21 on the grounds of Centennial Park.
Congrats Shelby!
Poster design: Kent Hunter
Graphic Design Student, Julian Baker, selected for the 2009 Society of Illustrators Student Competition / Exhibition
For the second year in a row, a Watkins graphic design major has been juried into the NY Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition & Exhibition! Julian Baker’s “Man, Man” will be among the 125 works exhibited at the Society’s Museum of American Illustration from May 6-June 6, 2009. Visit Julian's portfolio here.
This year’s competition received 5,598 entries from 80 schools, including School of Visual Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Ringling College of Art & Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, Savannah College of Art & Design, Parsons the New School for Design, Maryland Institute College of Art,
Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Art Center, and Watkins College of Art, Design & Film.
For nearly 30 years, the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition has awarded over $1.5 million to illustration students throughout North America and is considered one of the top student illustration competitions in the world.
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TIn PAN SOuth utilizes Student work to promote Annual Event.
For the second year in a row, NSAI partnered with Watkins College to commission original artwork for their annual Tin Pan South Festival held in Nashvile. Students in the Graphic Design department's Illustration I class taught by Dan Brawner were asked to create a design that depicted what the festival was all about.
"It was a difficult job to choose one image from all the amazing work submitted by the students," said Director of Development and Tin Pan South Fesitval Director, Erika Wollam-Nichols. The selected piece was by senior Craig Gwin and will be used in all festival print and online collateral. "The illustration evokes a feeling of the intimacy and expectation. Our venues are small and audiences get to hear stories and remarkable songs - you never know what you'll hear at Tin Pan South. The festival always has awesome moments, unique unexpected moments, and Craig captured that sense in this work."
Congratulations to Craig, a Nashville native who works with several companies and churches across the State with their graphics and websites to strengthen their message through design. Craig will graduate in 2009 with a BFA in Graphic Design.
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Illustration Comes to WatkinS
Illustration Concentration debuts this fall in the Graphic Design Department.
Illustration styles are as varied as the hands and minds that draw them. This fall Watkins College offers you an opportunity to develop your skills and nourish your unique style. Students majoring in Graphic Design may choose to concentrate in Illustration, enjoy courses such as Drawing I & II, Figure Study, Printmaking and Painting and graduate with a professional quality, entry-level portfolio.
Here are a few of the Illustration specific courses offered to those interested in concentrating in Illustration:
Illustration I
The class is an introductory course that provides an understanding ofthe illustration process and its role as an art form that reflects,serves, and advances contemporary culture. Class assignments parallel professional practice.
Required for graphic design majors. (ART 162, ART 161 or GRD 110)
Illustration II
The class will explore character development, sequential imagery, and visual storytelling as related to storyboards, picture books, game design, and animation. The class will include guest professionals and possible field trips. Graphic Design Elective; required for Illustration concentration. (GRD 321)
Illustration III - Visiting Illustrators
Students will work with visiting professionals -illustrators, designers, and animators - to benefit from distinctly different and valuable perspectives. Graphic Design Elective; required for Illustration concentration. (GRD 421)
In addition, students will be given the opportunity to take special topic classes with in the Illustration genre such as Illustration / Printmaking Camp and The Picture BookProxy-Connection: keep-aliveCache-Control: max-age=0b>.
Complete course lists can be found here. And course descriptions may be read here.
More news and information about the Illustration Concentration will be coming soon.
If you have questions please feel free to call (866.887.6395) or email ([email protected]) the Admissions Office
Who the heck is Dan Brawner?
Nashville native, Dan Brawner, creates idea-based art that reaches a wide audience through its appearance in books, magazines, and advertising campaigns. Commissioned by respected agencies, including Saatchi & Saatchi, Hal Riney & Partners, McCann-Erickson, Porter Novelli, and The Richards Group, Dan has created imagery for Children's TV Workshop, Coca-Cola, Kellogg's, KFC, Saturn, Simon & Schuster, Sonic, Texaco, U.S. Postal Service, WGBH/Boston, Yoo-Hoo, and Zanie's Comedy Showplace. His character designs for BASF's FreshStart's campaign appeared on NBC's The Today Show and marched in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Among his book projects is The Prayer of Jabez for Kids, named by Publisher's Weekly as the best-selling children's book of 2002. Published work has garnered awards from Advertising Age, American Ad Federation, American Illustration, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, Illustration West, Print, 3x3, Society of Illustrators, and SILA: Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles. In 2009, he received a gold medal from 3x3's Illustration Annual 5, and was published in Illustrators 50.
Dan has exhibited his work internationally, and in 2005 received Best of Show from Huntsville Museum of Art's Red Clay Survey. Recent work has been juried into group exhibitions at Billy Shire's Fine Art Gallery and Gallery Nucleus in Los Angeles, Nashville's Main Library, and the Society of Illustrators, NYC.
Visit Dan's site and be sure to check out our news page to see some of the work his students have been creating!