This is a fully open, public, online elective course designed to include theoretical study, illustration techniques and creative practice. The theoretical session is mainly a video course, through the systematic study of the definition, classification, methodological steps, means of expression and techniques of illustration design, students will be able to comprehensively grasp the role, interrelationship and basis of the creation and realization of the various elements of illustration design; in this session, there will be a large number of visual pictures to read, linking theory and intuitive visual art, allowing students to recognize the world of illustration in the process of reading pictures, reducing the boring learning of science, improving students' interest in interdisciplinary learning and enhancing students' aesthetic ability.

Recommendatory bibliography:

1. 100 illustrators, Steven Heller & Julius Wiedemann, TASCHEN, 2017Collage make the impossible possible, Send Points, 2018

2. Artless, art & illustration by simple means, Laurence King, 2016

3. Beyond illustration, designs & application, Send Points, 2014

4. Illusive4 Contemporary illustration, Gestalten, 2015

5. Look Inside: Cutaway Illustrations and Visual Storytelling, Gestalten, 2016