In this blog I will be looking at what skills my degree is giving me and how they will help me getting jobs after the course and what sort of jobs these would be.
Here are a list of skills I am gaining through this course (List on CCAD website):
• Drawing techniques and media applications
• Digital illustration
•
Printmaking
• Materials and equipment
• Composition and layout
•
Contemporary trends
• Narrative illustration
• Decorative
illustration
• Problem-solving
• Concept development
• Research
skills
• Presentation and communication skills
• Professional
practice
• Planning and organisation – meeting deadlines
• Working with
clients
• Promoting and marketing your work
• Working in industry or
self-employment
As you can see this degree will leave me with a very large skill set, enabling me to approach many different careers if I wish. Here are a few ideas for these careers, as told to me by the course description:
• Freelance illustrator or studio illustrator
• Book illustrator, including
children’s books
• Fashion illustrator
• Greetings card
illustrator/designer
• Illustration for magazines, editorials and
advertising
• Illustration for products, eg. homeware, fashion accessories,
stationery
• Working in publishing
• Printmaker
• Styling
• Project
management and community arts
• Postgraduate study, eg. MA Illustration
•
Postgraduate teaching qualifications
• Teaching and lecturing
This course will give me plenty of skills and opportunities to break in to the industry. As students we will already be working in the industry with live briefs and competitions in our second and third year, so by the time we complete our course we will be working well within the industry. This means our step from studying in to our proper career will be simple and smooth, meaning that we are able to enter any one of the jobs above, so we can do this while we also work towards bigger jobs.
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