FULL PROGRAM IN ILLUSTRATION/COMICS 2024/25
Head of Department: Daniel Lima, Madalena Parreira
Full three-year program dedicated to the development of technical and artistic skills in Illustration and Comics, understood as graphic and narrative areas of thought and expression.
In addition to the core subjects - illustration, comics, drawing, graphic workshop - the full course includes various specialized areas, both technical and theoretical, which are essential for the development of a substantive and versatile graphic culture, as well as autonomy in the creation and production of objects, books and editions.
Progress is assessed informally on an ongoing basis by teachers and formally at the end of each semester by teachers and Heads of Department.
Candidates who already possess a portfolio in these areas and wish to develop individual projects with regular tutorships, may wish to present their candidacy to Applied Project in Illustration/Comics, asking for an evaluation of same portfolio for that effect.
Options of further development: students may apply for entering Individual Project in Illustration/Comics and/or Advanced Course in The Visual Arts.
Teachers: Daniel Lima, Madalena Parreira, Amanda Baeza, André Pereira, Tiago Baptista, João Carola, Inês Machado, Ana Braga, Teodora Boneva, Carolina Celas, Nuno Saraiva, Catarina Lente, Pedro Moura, Manuela Correia Braga, Jorge Nesbitt, Margot Vilaça, Marcelo Costa, João Miguéis, João Catarino, Mariana Pita, Catarina Sobral, Tiago Guerreiro
Monitores: Ana Dias, Beatriz Correia
Fee 10 x 210€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments until 15th september)
Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.
Program Training program in Illustration and Comics where drawing and printing play a crucial role. Participants will develop their capacity for graphic expression through exercises that relate word and image. Concentration skills will be developed through exercises in observation drawing.
Disciplines
Notes
Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Attachments schedule
Fee 10 x 210€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Admission Illustration/Comics 1 or equivalent training. Portfolio presentation. Interview.
Program Medium duration exercises aimed at the development of a personalized graphic expression through the systematic use of both analog materials, such as gouache, watercolor, Indian ink, etc., and digital programs (Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign). Development of a small individual project in Comics.
Disciplines
Notes
Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Attachments schedule
Fee 10 x 210€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Admission Illustration/Comics 2 or equivalent training. Portfolio presentation. Interview.
Program Developing projects with orientation in the form of practical classes; development of the students’ skills in specific areas, such as digital illustration, children’s illustration, storyboard, etc.
Disciplines
Notes
Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Attachments schedule
Price 390€ + 39€ (Enrolment) +4,50€ (Insurance)
Admission Interview
Schedule Tuesdays from 15h00 às 17h30
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes
Illustration exercises meant to strengthen the formal strategies of image construction. Resorting to the technique of silkscreen reproduction students will plan, structure and finalize a publication with graphic unity.
In the context of this course Level III students will have a more individualized approach to the work proposals.
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Drawing For Illustration Workshop
Date 11 Oct 2024 to 7 Feb 2025
Price 350€ + 35€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance)
Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.
Schedule fridays from 14h30 to 17h
Type semestrial
Program
On-premise classes.
Intensive course in observation drawing with an emphasis on the techniques used in Illustration and Comics. Students will work with materials such as India ink, gouache, watercolor and acrylic paints.
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Workshop: Books, Authors, Editors & Publishers
Date 25 Oct 2024 to May 2025 (once a month)
Price 12€ + 0,75 (Seguro) por sessão
Schedule Fridays rom 10h30 to 13h
Type annual
Program
On-premise or on-line classes.
Guest artists, editors and cirtics with experience in the filed of Illustration, Comics and Publications.
Notes
25 Out - Ana Maçã & Simão Simões
29 Nov - Afonso Ferreira
20 Dez - Cassiano Soares
31 Jan - Maria Remédio
28 Fev - Ana Biscaia
28 Mar - Cristina Sampaio (a confirmar)
11 Abr - José Feitor
30 Mai - Rita Pereira & João Silvestre - Magma Bruta
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Price 520€ + 52€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (insurance)
Admission Interview
Schedule Thursdays from 15h to 17h30
Type semestrial
Program
On-premise classes.
Various exercises explore the adaptation of short texts to the language of Comics. Students will develop a personal project with the teacher’s orientation.
In the context of this course Level III students will have a more individualized approach to the work proposals.
Notes
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Price 310€ +31€ (Enrolm) + 2,50€ (Ins)
Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.
Schedule Tuesdays from 14h30 to 17h30
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
The workshop’s objective is the creation of a small format book, from cover to back cover, using the linocut printing technique. In the process, students will learn how to structure and build the contents of an illustrated artist book. A final challenge will consist in approaching bookbinding and post-production techniques in order to create a small artist’s edition.
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Illustration/Comics Workshop – A Visual Expedition
Date 16 Jan to 27 Mar 2025
Price 210€ + 21€ (Insc) + 2,50€ (Seg)
Schedule Thursday from 11hto 13h
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
Creation of a piece to be shown in a group exhibition, opening possibilities for object-books and installations. Image, text and material will be worked as a whole while exploring a personal visual space/universe.
Taking as a starting point the analysis of an artistic work with which the participant identifies him/herself (film, book, painting, sculpture, etc.) a Visual Archive/Notebook is developed as a basis for the exploration of the theme, your Space.
Questions are suggested (for instance: what does my space look like? What exists there? Who inhabits it? How is the weather in my space? What does one hear in my space? What does one feel in my space?) in order to trigger answers, more direct or more metaphorical. These answers are registered in the Notebook and feed the exploration of that Personal Visual Universe.
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Price 160€ + 16€ (Enrolm) + 2,50€ (Ins)
Schedule Tuesday from 10h30 to 13h
Type occasional
Program
On premise classes.
Workshop dedicated to the creation of original scripts. Adapting texts to the specific languages of Comics or Illustration. Examples of the history of script in the graphic arts. Narrative construction techniques with simple structures that emphasize visual articulation.
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Price 110€ + 11€ (Insc) + 0,75€ (ins)
Schedule Mondays from 14h30 to 17h
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
The workshop aims at promoting an effective collaboration between students whose sensibility is closer to the cinema and others whose sensibility is closer to the discipline of illustration. The confrontation between both languages should give way to a schematic representation, in the form of sequential images, of the plot and rhythm of a film project.
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Children’s Literature Illustration Workshop
Date 8 Oct 2024 to 7 Jan 2025
Price 220€ + 22€ (Insc) + 2,50€ (Seg)
Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.
Schedule Tuesdays from 18h to 20h
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
We will explore aspects of graphic expression and its relationship with the word which are specific to Illustration within the context of children’s literature. Practical exercises in editorial illustration for children and in the illustrated album.
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Workshop in Creative Writing: from Aesop to Brian Bilston
Date 10 Oct 2024 to 5 Dez 2024
Price 190€ + 19€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (insurance)
Schedule Thursday from 18h00 to 20h00
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes
Creative writing workshop applied to the picturebook. Participants will carry out practical exercises in creative writing, or writing and illustration, and learn techniques to unblock writing.
The motto for this workshop is found in short texts that will be read in class: from Aesop's fables to the surprising poems of Brian Bilston, by way of Mayakovsky's children's books, The Characters, by Theophrastus, or A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear. An approach to these and other texts will help to recognize the mechanisms of narrative and writing, serving as an inspiration to the students.
At the end of the workshop, students are expected to hand in a final work where they put into practice the knowledge acquired.
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Price 150€ + 15€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (Insurance)
Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.
Schedule Mondays and Wednesdays from 18h to 20h
Type occasional
Program
On-premise
The workshop aims at producing graphic materials by using some of the traditional techniques of Scientific Illustration (graphite on paper and polyester, watercolor on paper, watercolor and graphite, India ink on polyester and scratchboard).
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Theoretical Course in Illustration – Drawings and Designs of the Imagination .
Date 25 Nov to 16 Dec 2024
Price 100€ + 10€ (Insc)
Schedule Mondays from 18h00 to 20h00
Type occasional
Program
On-line classes.
Going back to the thread of myths and to the dream that unleashes fantasy events, whether in legends or in the narratives of the oldest children’s stories, we will now follow the theoretical and artistic clues that sustain them. In accordance with platonic theory, imagination is similar to fantasy, like a ghost, a simulacrum or a premonition that emerges in vision. Following legends, between Eros and Thanatos, the dream allows the spirit to wander through “blind visions”, or nightmares, accompanying corporeal metamorphosis, when waking life and reason cease to pay attention.
We will follow these mutations thoughout age old stories and images, from the dormants in mountains and caves, or sleeping beauties, to the nocturnal digressions of Little Nemo, until they start to move in Comic strips or in cinema.
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Theoretical Illustration Course – Girls and animals in the thread of histories.
Date 6 to 27 Jan 2025
Price 100€ + 10€ (Insc)
Schedule Mondays from 18h00 to 20h00
Type occasional
Program
On-line classes.
Myths, legends and traditional stories are forms of things “seen”, even when never actually witnessed. They are rooted in the depths of the unconscious and of the tímeless memory kept in dreams. To illustrate means to bring something to light and is also a means to render visible what the letter kills.
A thread connects the most ancient initiatory evocations of entering adult life: the meaning of the nymphs and the wrath they provoque (as Roberto Calasso so aptly described), the enchantment and whirlwind that from Greco-Latin Antiquity nymphs moves on to the inspiring muses of artists, the sleep/dream of sleeping beauties, the meeting between boys, girls and animals, the metamorphosis that surface in young girls who are also animal.
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Price 210€ + 21€ (Enrolment) + 0,75€ (Insurance)
Schedule Tuesdays from 18h to 20h
Type occasional
Program
On-premisse classes.
Introduction to the work of contemporary illustrators and Comics authors, allowing for an approach to the historical and formal contents of both Illustration and Comics. The course is constituted by small specific formation units.
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Scientific Illustration Workshop. Zoology
Date 18, 25 Jan and 1, 8 Feb 2025
Price 120€ + 0,75€ (Insurance) - materials not included
Schedule Saturdays from 10am to 1pm
Type occasional
Program Workshop dedicated to the production of graphic content in the Zoology field. Application of some scientific illustration techniques, namely indian ink and scratchboard. At the beginning of each session, there will be an overview of the species to be studied and a brief introduction to the technique that will be applied.
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Advanced Seminar in Illustration
Date 3 Fez to 30 May 2025
Price 4 mensalidades x 165€ + 60€ (Insc) + 4,50€ (Seg) ou 600€ + 60€ (Insc) + 2,50€ (Seg)
Admission
Submission of portfolio and/or selective interview (Pdf with 10 images and short bio, up to 8Mega) to secretaria@arco.pt by January 24th.
Admissions after the start of the course are exceptional, by interview.
Schedule 2ª das 18h às 21h e 6ª feira das 18h às 22h
Type occasional
Program
The Advanced Seminar in Illustration aims to consolidate technical and artistic skills in Illustration.
The structure of the seminar is based on the realization of a medium-term project of an illustrated album, oriented towards the possibility of editing and with direct monitoring by the editor André Letria / Pato Lógico
The program includes creative writing sessions, project layout, illustration techniques and technologies and individual tutorials.
Notes
Datas das sessões:
Fev - 3, 7, 17, 21, 28
Mar - 7, 10, 14, 21, 28
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Price 210€ + 21€ (Insc) + 2,50€ (Seg)
Schedule Mondays 18h às 20h
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes
Exploring the expressive and stylistic potential of black ink drawing, with one foot based on cinema and the other on comics.
Departing from black and white cinema references, the students will draw key scenes from the various films filtering their interpretation through the personal styles of different comics authors. They will do so using black ink exclusively.
The workshop will be divided into two phases. First, a new pair of film/Comics will be given to interpret in each session: a Metropolis scenario, by Fritz Lang, with the thick and confident lines of a Jack Kirby, for instance, or a scene from O Sangue, by Pedro Costa, in the light of the shaky and anarchic gesture of a Brian Chippendale. In a second phase, the drawings produced will become the starting point for the elaboration of two comic strip boards by the enroled students.
The program’s ultimate purpose is the development of two essential skills: 1) principles of scene composition and light modulation that can be used in illustration as well as in comics; and 2) observation techniques that allow for the identification of the characteristics of the graphic styles of different authors, so as to consciously use them and adapt them according to one’s own affinities. Students will also learn to identify the materials appropriate for the execution of specific expressive modulations, always using black ink drawing.
Notes
For the first session, students must bring:
A3 pad (preferably over 120g in weight)
Permanent black ink pens of various thicknesses (with tips between 0.1 and 0.8)
Very thick black ink marker.
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Workshop: Illustration Portfolio
Date 3 Apr to 15 May 2025
Price 110€ + 11€ (Enrolment) + 0,75€ (Insurance)
Schedule Thursdays from 18h00 to 20h00
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
How to build a simple portfolio for the Illustration job market. The digital formats. Managing social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.). Managing the photo sharing apps (Flickr, Instagram, etc.) and video sharing apps (YouTube, Vimeo, etc). Building a Blog (Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, etc) and a microblog (Twitter, etc)
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Illustration workshop: final artwork
Date 12 May to 9 Jun 2025
Price 110€ + 11€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (Insurance)
Schedule Mondays from 18h to 20h
Type occasional
Program
On-preise classes.
From the thorough discussion and manipulation of an image or sketch until the creation of a final artwork, the workshop aims to familiarize participants with the demands inherent in the collaborative work between the artist and his editor.
Participants will use multiple digital editing and compositional tools. Photoshop will help to obtain an image for a specific editorial purpose.
Notes external participants must bring portfolio.
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