Illustration for Children's and Teenagers' Publications

To register for this course, candidates have to pass a selection process and meet the academic and administrative requirements.

First of all, you need to have a university identification number (NIU/NIA) and a password. If you do not yet have these details, you can obtain them by doing the registration application.

You must then access the registration platform and attach the admission documentation (maximum of 2MB per file):

• CV
• Book/Portfolio
• University degree (*)
• Academic certificate
• DNI/passport
• Passport photo for the card

(*) For Postgraduate Diplomas, if you do not have the required university qualification or it is being processed, you can complete and attach the following Declaration of non-availability of qualification.

For more information about the acceptance procedure, degree requirements and other matters of interest, please consult the master's and postgraduate courses admissions section on our website or write to postgraus(a)eina.cat.

• Higher graduates in Design.
• Fine Arts graduates.
• Advertising and Public Relations graduates.
• Anyone with an interest, skills and experience in the field of plastic and graphic arts, illustration, animation or comics.

Analysis of drawing applied to illustration

The workshop will focus on the analysis of both the formal and the content characteristics of illustrations. The analysis will be made, on the one hand, through public comments of the portfolio with which the students gained admission to the course, connecting the style, technique, composition, line, colour, etc. with the narrative aims inherent in illustration work. In addition, there will be a practical exercise aimed at helping each student recognise the characteristics of their own work, with a view to enhancing it and locating the flaws that they have accumulated or the ones they commit through a lack of skill.

Magazine illustration

The course studies periodical publications aimed at children and young people. It describes the characteristics of the specific types (stories, games, pastimes, short stories, etc.). The practical part includes work on projects adapted to this medium.

Publications for pre-readers

Publications for pre-readers This subject looks at the understanding of the world of the child who has not yet fully established their reading and writing instruments. In the theoretical part, students will study the conceptual elements that help in the child’s development, while in the practical part, they will create a project.

Text books

Students study the determinants that text books have (concision, clarity, speed of understanding, etc.). They will analyse the difficult balance between the educational functions of the text book and the pleasing, original and often fun presentation that can aid school learning. In the practical part, students will work on various illustrations through this medium.

Narrative illustration

The subject investigates, in its broadest sense, the relationship between literary text and visual narration through illustrated books in pocket format included in the leading publishing collections aimed at young readers. The workshop will include the practical exercise of illustrating a selected text for a book of given characteristics, in the form of a real commission.

Album analysis

The subject offers an approach to illustration for children and young people from its strictly narrative aspect. The theoretical part consists of the analysis of leading examples in the history of children's literature.

Ideas generation

The subject offers an approach to illustration for children and young people from its strictly narrative aspect, including a practical part consisting of a small writing workshop.

Illustrated children's albums

The subject studies the most ambitious and iconic illustrated product: the illustrated album. The theoretical part will investigate the peculiarities of this product, in which artistic quality plays such a leading role. In the practical part, students will work on a book project.

One-time payment option: 

• 100% at the time of acceptance (payment must be made within 10 days of acceptance to guarantee the reservation of the place) 

Fractionated payment option: 

• 50% at the time of acceptance (payment must be made within 10 days of acceptance to guarantee the reservation of the place) 
• 50%: two months after the start of the course 

For further details check on academic info.

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