Higher diploma in Visual Arts and Design for Illustration

The Advanced Vocational Training Module in Illustration offers students the chance to discover and work without a continuity solution on the professional and artistic sides of the discipline with rigour and exigency. With a teaching staff that includes active professional illustrators, the course allows students to explore the narrative, expressive and communicational possibilities of illustration and, by extension, visual language, by providing them with methodological tools and technical resources including narrative, visual and graphic resources that enable them to approach visual narration projects from a strictly contemporary point of view, in which they will be able to combine work in traditional media (with a special emphasis on project reproducibility and dissemination) and digital media, including video and the digital publishing of books, games and apps.

The course takes an in-depth look at artistic sensitivity and the development and maintenance of a proactive attitude to enable students to establish their ability as artists, in addition to professional techniques. Students become familiar with the work involved in publishing, the press and advertising on paper and in digital publishing, and acquire the basics needed for the desktop publishing of their own work, to develop basic animation projects and to engage in creative projects involving digital and audiovisual publishing in collaboration with programmers, screenwriters, etc.

 

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Title
Higher Diploma in Visual Arts and Graphic Design for Illustration.

Category
Audio-visual and graphic communication.

Level
Advanced Vocational Training in Visual Arts and Design.

Duration
2,000 class hours. Two years. 120 ECTS.

Access to higher university courses
Direct access to university courses pursuant to attachment 3 of Decree 113/2001 of 2 May for holders of the higher diploma in visual arts and design shall be provided in accordance with the selection procedures for acceptance into university for students who meet the legal requirements needed to obtain a university place.

Schedules 2025–26