Bring Your Vision to Life
With a Bachelors of Fine Arts (BFA) in Illustration, you’ll learn to use visual storytelling to captivate audiences. By taking immersive art courses that will grow your ability, you’ll discover how your distinct visual voice can be used in a variety of illustration markets.
With this Illustration major, you’ll focus on drawing, painting, storyboarding, visual voice, and visual narrative. You’ll study and practice how to tell stories visually, learn character development, and explore a variety of digital and tangible mediums, such as Corel Painter and Water Based Media. This studio-intensive degree is designed for students with a strong commitment to a professional future as illustrators, studio artists, and designers, or to further graduate studies.
Through Taylor’s dedicated art faculty, you’ll be learning from artists who understand working in the art industry. Most importantly, from your first day of class as a freshman to your final senior show, you’ll see them model God’s heart for beauty and truth, integrating tenets of our faith in every class.
Why Get an Illustration BFA?
A standard at art and design colleges, this Illustration Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is designed with a focus on a practical studio component, rather than on lecture or discussion classes. With no language requirement (unlike a BA), you’ll take 14 additional hours of art classes instead. An Illustration BFA offers a competitive edge in the job market, and it’s seen as a gateway degree to a Master of Fine Arts. According to the Wall Street Journal, students who earn a BFA degree have relatively high income levels, job prospects, and levels of job satisfaction.