Expand your hobby or turn professional.
For those with a talent for drawing, cartooning and illustration offers a fascinating hobby with plenty of career potential.
The Cengage Education Freelance Cartooning & Illustrating course teaches students the essentials of how to professionalise their drawing and illustration talents and turn it into a career. With the help of an industry professional as your tutor, you’ll learn how to produce saleable drawings and illustrations, and where and how to market your work.
The course is equally suitable for both those with professional aspirations and those simply looking to take their talents to another level.
On completion of your course:
Upon completion of this course you will receive a Cengage Education Freelance Cartooning & Illustrating Certificate.
In addition to this, you will receive a FREE one year subscription to the Australian Cartoonists Associations and a FREE one year Media Pass.
Key areas of learning:
- Introduction to your course
- Drawing: proportion and perspective
- About the marketplace: how to draw people and animals
- Drawing: expression, action and balance
- Character style design: caricature, Manga art and animation
- Cartooning: comic books, comic strips and press art
- Illustrating: books, magazines and covers
- Style: shading, lettering, texture, backgrounds
- Copywriting, philosophy and tabloids
- Computer technology applied
- Merchandising: greeting cards, calendars and posters
- Freelancing: your portfolio