Fine Art and Illustration BA(Hons)

This course focuses on illustration, using fine art practice as its starting point. It aims to help you become an independent, creative practitioner with the ability to create exciting art works and illustrations through explorations and experimentations, in both ideas and materials. As a broad introduction to concepts, contexts, techniques, and technologies, you’ll be encouraged to draw upon existing knowledge.

This will help you establish the frameworks within which to operate as a creative practitioner through the exploration of painting, drawing, installation, film, photography, and digital art. On this flexible Fine Art and Illustration degree course, you’ll be taught by tutors who have professional industry experience within art and illustration. You’ll be able to develop the techniques and skills required to pursue a broad range of careers within the creative industries.

This course will prepare you for a career as a professional artist or illustrator, which could include exhibiting in galleries, creating content for the web, books graphic novels, or animations. By studying Illustration at the University of Huddersfield you’ll get to work from our state-of-the-art Barbara Hepworth Building, which features collaborative studio spaces, advanced photography and CAD studios and a high-quality digital print centre.