Years 2 to 4 Graphic Arts Illustration Program

The Graphic Arts Illustration Program

The Graphic Arts Illustration Curriculum (Years 2 to 4) provides theoretical, practical and artistic education, a good part of which is allocated to the mastery of drawing. It addresses the areas of narration and imagery, and allows you to specialize in concept art, children’s illustration, comics and storyboard…

3 training options offered:

Illustration / comics option

Research of its own graphic identity through exercises of illustrations and comics.

End-of-year project: Creation of a comic strip or a children’s book with presentation file for a publishing house.

Option Concept Art & 3D

Search for graphic universes for animated films or video games.

End-of-year project: Creation of a complete Artbook illustrating a scenario: design of characters and sets, posing, objects, animals… This work will allow the student to demonstrate his graphic skills and his artistic style to advertising production companies, video games or animated films.

Option Storyboard & 2D Animation

From a scenario: search for staging, cutting, framing, rhythm, and graphics for the realization of a fixed or animated storyboard.

End-of-year project: Creation of storyboards for an animated film, a series, or a cinematic of video games. This work will allow the student to present a book of his work to advertising, video game or animated film production companies.

Teachings

The teaching of the first year aims to the deepening of drawing techniques, the discovery of various illustrative techniques, an introduction to narration, as well as the acquisition of computer graphics techniques essential to the realization of graphic projects.

The third year deepens graphic techniques and storytelling. Creative workshops allow the student to work on a more personal design. At the end of the year, he will have to choose his option among the three proposals.

During their 4th year, students in the Illustration program focus mainly on their final year projects (PFE). Each student builds up his or her project according to the option chosen, so as to be able to approach companies or production firms with a portfolio of work of a high graphic and artistic level.

The + of the Arts Program
Illustration Graphics

• A solid general training allowing to work in several areas of drawing
• Openness to jobs in tension such as storyboard, concept art…
• Support and opening up to the professional network
• Possibility of doing a period of artistic residency abroad

Educational objectives

Create and produce illustrations, concept art adapted to different formats in using various graphic techniques.

• Develop and deepen drawing techniques on different media.
• Building a graphic and artistic culture
• Identify narrative forms.
• Develop scenarios and create storyboards
• Create graphic concepts.
• Decline the graphic concepts produced on different supports and media.

Prerequisites

Be holder of a level IV title or diploma, of a solid general knowledge, demonstrate a regular practice in the artistic disciplines. In addition, entry tests based in particular on the production of a certain number of works are required.

Terms of access and duration of studies

• Application to be submitted 2 months before each academic year (September).
• Total duration 4 years, (+/- 2,600 hours), plus preparatory class (if required).

Teaching methods used

• Learning artistic and graphic fundamentals and putting them into practice.
• Graphic exploration and experimentation.
• Realization of artistic projects.
• Professional situation.

Assessment modality

Individual oral and written, continuous assessment, and evaluation during the project phases. At the end of the cycle, production, and presentation to a jury of a complete file of graphic research.

Results indicator(s)

Training success rate (class of 2023): 97%

Dates

Next Intake: September 2025

You may be wondering about the possibility of following our training courses. Contact us, so that we can inform you and guide you as best as possible: accessibilite@brassart.fr.

What opportunities are there after
the Graphic Arts Illustration course ?

The numerous and complementary disciplines make graphic arts a world of specialists who work alone or in teams depending on the projects. We thus find children’s or advertising illustrators, comic book authors and artists, storyboarders or concept artists who create graphic universes.