Our MA Illustration course encourages you to question the nature of your practice and its context and position relative to the creative industries. The course allows you to further refine your creative identity, offering a bridge between HE and professional illustration practice. It offers a great opportunity for creative professionals to return to university in order to reflect upon their creative practice and change direction.

In the 21st century, advancements in technology, shifts in media consumption, and evolving industry needs have opened new opportunities for illustrators as digital content creators, interactive media specialists, environmental designers, research communicators, marketing creators, educators, e-commerce designers, animation artists, and social advocates.

The Master’s Degree in Creative Illustration will analyse the numerous fields, uses and applications of illustration demanded by the market, while developing both technical and conceptual issues as students seek their own voice and an understanding of illustration as a form of artistic expression. This programme will delve into the functions of illustration while examining its principal fields and applications in depth, along with illustrators and the role of their work as an information provider, trend generator, critic, historian and graphic chronicler.

The MA in Illustration provides the skills to develop portfolios with samples in Children’s Book, Editorial, Licensing, Package Illustration, Concept Art, Book Covers, Preliminary Art, Advertising, or Institutional Art portfolios. Both representational and stylistic approaches for print and or web are taught. Students graduate with a portfolio created in a personal style and medium of choice that is market appropriate.

In today’s contemporary communication landscape, illustration has emerged as one of the most influential artistic disciplines. Professional illustrators now have access to a plethora of resources and techniques, allowing them to pursue careers in various graphic projects and fields. LABASAD’s Online Master’s Degree in Illustration is specifically designed to equip aspiring illustrators with the necessary tools and knowledge to confidently undertake any professional project, from conceptualization to final delivery.

In this international study programme, you will learn to make accurate visualisations of topics from the clinical, medical and biological domains. You will get the skills to use a wide range of traditional and digital visualisation techniques.

Welcome to the exciting world of Concept Art! If you have ever dreamed of bringing characters, settings, and objects to life in cinema, video games, or illustration, you have come to the right place. Concept Art is the first cornerstone in creating captivating visual worlds and immersive narratives.

Collaborating with scientists and physicians, medical illustrators transform complex information into visual images that are used in education, research, patient care, public relations, legal cases, and marketing efforts.

Immerse yourself in exploring professional and practical approaches to children’s illustration as well as engaging in the academic study of children's literature, to gain an in-depth understanding of the relationships between image, text, readers and context in the world of children’s literature.

Specialize as a concept artist and boost your professional career! With our Master in Concept Art, you will learn to design characters, vehicles, spaces, environments, and unique worlds. You will also master creating layouts that match the theme of each story and conveying various emotions through colour.

With the Master's Degree in illustration and Comics you will find your own voice as an illustrator and draftsman, while expanding your skills and graphic languages to successfully answer to the professional market requirements.

Kingston School of Art offers a stimulating environment for the postgraduate study of Illustration. Kingston University has some of the best fabrication and visual process workshops in the UK. This enables the most exciting innovations in 'thinking through making'.

The Illustration and Animation MA aims to expand the digital and physical knowledge of your craft, helping you find your own ‘voice’ and style.

This master's degree is designed as a specialization course with the aim of providing students with the necessary skills to develop professional illustration and illustration projects applied to audiovisual media.

At the heart of this Illustration MA is an examination of authorship and storytelling. You’ll learn to see your work as an evolving practice, as you challenge and re-evaluate your personal vision and voice with the help of experienced practitioners. Through hands-on workshops, you’ll develop skills like screen-printing, creative writing and bookbinding, while working on longer-term projects in your choice of media. Taking an entrepreneurial approach, you’ll develop your professional practice and consider outlets for your work.