Illustration pages in Japanese here, blog pages here

Fostering creativity and expression by going beyond borders of various media

The purpose of this course is to foster artists who can flourish in all aspects of visual media, not simply book illustration, in the context of today’s society. The curriculum offers many opportunities to develop individual talents in areas ranging from advertising media, including magazines, posters, and commercial message (CM) work, and more creative fields such as picture-book illustration, character representations, and other visual art works. Students will develop rich sensibility and highly creative capabilities, and will be well prepared to participate fully in all aspects of this continually expanding field.

Department profile (May 2009):

Faculty:

Curriculum:

1st year: Students will develop drawing skills, imagination, and expression through basic exercises. English for professional design communications is a required subject.
Drawing, representational image-making, perspective drawing, ink painting, Japanese painting (Nihonga)

2nd year: Expansion of image-making skills through introduction of computer graphics and video work.

Drawing, representational image-making, computer graphics and video, etching, tempera, CG drawing skills
3rd year: Students will establish their own styles through various assignments utilizing various visual media. They will attend lectures on art criticism, and participate in CG 3D graphics practice.

Illustration, visual art, CG 3D graphics, art criticism
4th year: Planning and producing web-galleries in collaboration with companies and/or other students.
Art promotion, media presentation, collaboration, production of graduation works

Seika graduates and their works: