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MA Illustration portfolio guide
You'll need this guide if you're applying to MA Illustration.
<̽»¨¾«Ñ¡>What to include in your portfolio
As applicants are from many different backgrounds, we don’t prescribe an ideal portfolio. However, your artwork examples should demonstrate an ability and aptitude towards illustration.
Artwork examples should include:
- images from your sketchbooks, along with drawings and/or work in progress to show your working methods; we’d like to see experimentation and evidence of your various skills
- finished illustrations with a brief description, which could include single images or image sequences
- a range of media and outcomes – but you should have some examples of completed work resolved to a high level
- self-generated projects that comment on a social issue
Your portfolio must include:
- working methods (sketchbook or other)
- finished illustrations, with short description about the project and materials used
Your portfolio may include:
- painting and drawing
- digital illustration
- printmaking
- children’s book illustration
- zines
- graphic novels
- textiles
- 3D work
- animation
- storyboards
- experimentation – roughs and drafts
- sketchbook work and/or work in progress
- college or self-generated projects
<̽»¨¾«Ñ¡>What we’re looking for
We want your portfolio to demonstrate your:
- understanding of illustration and its application in a wider social and global context
- projects that are socially aware
- ability to express your creative process, decision making and idea realisation
- ability to reflect on what is, and is not, successful about your work
- interest in researching historical and contemporary visual culture
Your portfolio should evidence:
- enquiry, research and observations
- original idea generation
- conceptual development
- experimental work
- a good level of technical ability (both traditional and digital)
- an ability to select and present a range of work to a high professional standard
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