Pictoric
What is
Illustration?
Illustration is a course for teens ages 11-18 for an inspiring start in design
- An illustrator is an artist who creates an image from a written text or story. They are the ones who create themed pictures in books and magazines. Beautiful illustrations on websites are also their job
- The essence of an illustrator’s job is to create sketches and finished works for customers. Illustrators must master a massive number of different drawing techniques
- Teenagers will learn: how to create charismatic characters, work with book and magazine illustration, create visual content for websites, packages, and postcards, will start to develop own style, and will get their first work experience as an illustrator
- An incredible amount of practice, big projects on real briefs, feedback and master classes from industry masters
Benefits
For teenagers only
We are experts in teaching 13-19 year-olds. For many years we accumulated experience of teenage features to take it into account for educational programs and approaches. In dealing with parents, we take the teenager’s side
Drawing well = profession
The ability to draw is a potential, the ability to draw technically is a profession. Good illustrators are in demand in various business fields, including IT, where the best illustrators acquire the profession of Game Artist
Career Service
Level Beginner is for understanding the basics of the illustrator profession, and level Advanced is for obtaining professional knowledge and skills at the Junior specialist level. Information about the actual salaries of specialists is here
Creative thinking
Creativity — the ability to make non-standard decisions in different life and work situations – is one of the main skills of the decade (The World Economic Forum (WEF))
Profession relevancy
Illustrator is a much sought-after profession. Growth is related to the market development:
— printing: magazine and book illustrations, posters, postcards
— advertising: flyers, booklets, posters, internet banners
— IT industry: visual content of web sites, development of computer games
— production: packaging for mass consumption products
How to find the first job
Pre-acceleration (entrepreneur) module is a part of level Advanced: how to work freelance, in a company, or start own business; diving into a profession with the support of industry experts; project built-up and pitch for industry experts. Career service for level Advance graduates: internship and/or the first job.
Structure of learning:
The Course consists of two parts: Hard skills (Illustration lessons – professional skills) and Soft skills (personal skills training – over-profession skills). We teach from scratch. Preliminary test on level Beginner — to check logic and basic computer skills
Educational results
In case of successful completion of the course, the teenager develops such skills:
Level Beginner
- Professional skills (Hard skills)
- the first portfolio of 3+ projects on behance.com
- basic illustrator skills: academic drawing composition and chromatics, sketching and human drawing
- Adobe Photoshop basics
- creation of comics
- work with magazine and book illustrations
- individual and team work on technical tasks within the set timeframe
- design and promotion of own work portfolio
Level Advanced
- Professional skills (Hard skills)
- knowledge and skills at the level of Junior design specialist
- search and formation of own style, professional portfolio with 16-20 projects on behance.com
- advanced skills in vector and raster graphic design software (Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop), work with stop-motion effects
- creating a graphic report, working with photos and collages, book layout and GIF animation, etc
- work experience individually, in pairs, and in big teams in different roles that are relevant to the design industry; project management, Trello
- participation in the unique 4-month pre-acceleration program with the following results: individual and team projects, pitches for design industry experts; knowing how to find the first job in a company, work freelance or start own business; how to get first orders, employment, or internship after graduation from level Advanced
Program created / verified
Ann Andreeva
Diana Tomenko
freelance
Marta Hmilyar
freelance
Liza Novosad
freelance
Yulia Vus
freelance + own project "Шо за скетч"
Sergiy Maidukov
the Ukrainians/ Closer/ National Geographic/ LOW/TheOdeser/ New York Times
Mari Kinovich
Untime - animation studio
Iryna Valye
YAP
Format
Training in groups
- Duration, level Beginner — 6 months (24 weeks/lessons)
- Studying in a group with a design expert as a mentor — design specialist, level Middle+; a group of teenagers and study manager support
- Tasks for midweek work: video tutorial (1-5 videos per week), tests to it, practical tasks, additional materials (industry articles, etc.). Checking tasks by the mentor. Communication in the chat
- Group online lessons with a hard skills mentor on weekends (Saturday or Sunday, 2 hours, online in zoom/google meet)
- Feedback for parents: 1. once a month the status of training in the program from the study manager 2. once every three months — feedback from the mentor
Works by our teenagers
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Results
Profession
The design industry values knowledge and experience. Illustration Course graduate gets:
- Career service, preparation for entering a design faculty at a university (after level Beginner)
- Ability to work on Junior design specialist level (after level Advanced)
- Professional portfolio of individual and team projects
- Upgrade Certificate of each level (Beginner, Advanced)
The first job
- The level provides a base and understanding of further development. The level Advanced is professional, so it allows our teenagers to work freelance
- The training program consists of team projects and their pitches for industry experts and HR managers. Ampli has a career service for finding internships and first jobs for our graduates
Community
We create a community of teenagers and industry experts
- Project-based education = working in teams on own/team commercial and social projects. Management experience already in adolescence
- Ampli Talks webinars and social events for teenagers. Speeches by experts from IT, design, and business