Certificate in Freelance Cartooning & Illustrating

This course is ideal for students considering a freelance career in commercial illustration or cartooning.

Trained by an industry professional, you will learn how to bring perspective and proportion to your illustrations; introduce style and text into your work; and bring your drawings to life. The specific skills of cartooning are also covered, and you will gain critical knowledge that will help you to add a commercial edge to your work, set up as a freelancer and maximise the opportunities for selling your art. The course includes some complimentary materials.

• Course Detail

  Course number 89500	Course duration Max 18 months
  Course fees from $45.94 per week	Qualification Open Colleges Certificate
  Delivery mode Online	Nationally recognised No
  Assessments 8 written assessments	Awarded By Open Colleges

• Subjects

  • Introduction to your course
    • Drawing equipment
    • The freelance road
    • Illustration that pays
    • Getting started with cartooning and illustrating
    • Drawing anatomy in three dimension
  • Drawing: proportion and perspective
    • Practice
    • Improving your work
    • Scripting your work
    • Applying proportion
    • Keeping everything in persepctive
    • Lettering
    • Creating ideas for cartoons and illustrations
  • About the marketplace: how to draw people and animals
    • You, drawing and the marketplace
    • Taking care of business
    • Marketing your cartoon and illustration
    • Taking an illustrative brief
    • Managing client expectations
    • Making the freelance sale
    • Drawing people: men, women, children, the elderly
    • Drawing animals
    • Comparative anatomy
  • Drawing: expression, action and balance
    • Bringing it to life
    • Making it happen
    • Exaggerate
    • I'm really a cartoonist!
    • Watch your spelling
    • Expression
    • Action and balance
    • Wrinkles and folds
  • Character style and design: caricature, Manga art and animation
    • Drawing politicians and celebrities
    • The Manga way
    • The digital age
    • Computer animation
    • Selling your work
    • Drawing caricatures
  • Cartooning: comic books, comic strips and press art
    • Comic books versus comic strips
    • How to self-publish
    • Working for comic books: who does what
    • Press art: the newspaper cartoon
    • Code for editorial matter
    • Onomatopoeia
    • Anthropomorphism
    • Inventing characters
    • Montages
  • Illustrating: books, magazines and covers
    • Illustrating for books and covers
    • Tips from professional illustrators
    • Starting out in magazines
  • Style: shading, lettering, texture, backgrounds
    • Introduction to texture and shading
    • Enrich your drawings
    • Texture
    • Shading
    • Methods
    • Inking
    • Scraper board
    • Special effects
    • Backgrounds
  • Copywriting, philosophy and tabloids
    • Copywriting secrets
    • Spelling
    • Working with a publication in mind
    • Syndicating without conflict
    • Tabloid humour
    • Proportion revisited
    • Strip plan
    • Scriptwriting
    • Layout
    • Finishing off
  • Computer technology applied
    • Studio technology
    • Digital imaging
    • File formats
    • Transporting illustrations
    • Digital printing
    • Digital imaging glossary
    • How to draw with a computer
    • Drawing electronically
    • Types of graphics applications
    • Cartooning exercises
  • Merchandising: greeting cards, calendars and posters
    • Market demand
    • Filler gags
    • Greeting cards, calendars and posters
    • How to sell your work
    • Cartoons on greeting cards and other merchandise
  • Freelancing: your portfolio
    • Your portfolio
    • Skills revision
    • Methods revision
    • Comic strips
    • The true cost of freelancing
    • Improving your portfolio
    • Income goals
    • Keys to selling your work
    • Staying abreast of the industry

• Requirements

  Entry requirements

  Minimum education

  Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.

  Minimum age

  Minimum age of 16 years. If you are under 18 your application must be signed by a parent or guardian.

  Computer requirements

  Students will need access to a computer and the internet. For students who do not have access to either a computer or the internet please contact a student support officer to discuss alternative methods of communication.

  Minimum specifications for the computer are:

  • Microsoft Office 2003 or equivalent and
  • Microsoft Windows 98 or
  • Mac OS X and
  • CD-ROM drive.

  Students will also need access to a printer and the following applications:

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader and
  • Macromedia Flash player.

  English language requirements

  If English is not your first language and you did not complete the last two years of secondary education in English, you are required to provide evidence of English language competency before enrolling into the course. Examples of appropriate evidence are listed below:

  Evidence	Example
  IELTS	Overall score of 5.5
  TOEFL	530 (paper), 197 (computer) or 71 (internet)
  12 months in English-speaking employment	Testimonial, statutory declaration

  Additional requirements

  There are no additional requirements for this course.

• Pathways

  Upon completion of this course, you will have developed a better understanding of the subject area and be able to put your new skills into practice.

• Extra Benefits

  Included materials

  • Inkspot magazine
  • Cartooning and illustrating GIF Animator CD

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