Illustration - Comics (BA)

During the three years of bachelor's degree in comics and illustration at the erg, the student is led to gradually solve a series of problems around the narration and the formatting of a story. Starting from their appetite for images and writing, their personal interests and objectives, the student is encouraged to bring together their thought, their practice, and their intuitions fruitfully to achieve a personal and singular production. . Through diligent practice, they will question the ethical and aesthetic issues of their tools, and their impact on their subject, based on an extensive knowledge of what constitutes graphic literature today.

Bachelor 1

Teachers: Geneviève Casterman, in Illustration and Mathilde Van Gheluwe in Comics.

The illustration workshop meets the challenges of the comic book course, namely the text-image relationships. Through the practice of drawing, image and writing, the student is led to develop a personal point of view and universe. Emphasis is also placed on the presentation of the work and the quality of the hanging. The main issues and tools of illustration will be considered: the text / image relationship, the story board and the cutting, the constituents of the image (framing, point of view, scale, temporality, space), figures of speech, the different techniques and their adequacy with the project, the diversity of media, outlets for the discipline, its history and current events. The pedagogy of the illustration course is an active pedagogy, of the project, both cooperative and individualized. It encourages research and experimentation and is supported by numerous references from all contemporary disciplines close to the notion of image and narration. In the first term, the illustration course program is made up of compulsory learning activities, collective exercises that the student appropriates in a personal way to gradually arrive at the end of the second term to develop a personal project both in its form than in its content but framed by given imperatives.

Bachelor 2 & 3

Teachers: Joanna Lorho, Rebecca Rosen

The objective is to lead the student to create a singular universe by developing means of representation, and to question his practice in the contemporary world in relation to other arts and media.

The students are anchored in a singular practice and put in place a series of gestures and processes that are unique to them. They are quite capable of claiming the choices made in their artistic projects. They must be able to report on a range of references, sources and documentation that have informed their practice and their words, and report on the research and experiments carried out throughout the year.

Several titles are presented throughout the year as part of the course or during a workshop and are supposed to act as incentives: they set a rather broad framework and have few constraints. They are an opportunity for teachers to share specific lessons. In this context, students are invited to work on a story that links text and image, the form(s) are completely free. Except in special cases, each lesson is introduced by a collective meeting which is an opportunity to watch and share around a series of works (books, films, documentaries, cinema, exhibitions, podcasts, texts, etc.).

The course has a site that includes all the statements as well as a series of references proposed by the teachers. All the references brought over the year, according to the moment, the needs, the news by the students and the teachers are shown in class and/or shared on the cloud. These references can draw on all areas. Students are expected to take an active part in the cultural reinforcement of the workshop.