We will encourage you to be imaginative, ambitious and resourceful, which should prepare you for the challenges of an unpredictable world. Following successful completion you should have the skills of an illustrator-artist with the creative, critical, reflective and technical skills to develop innovative, idiosyncratic and imaginative forms of visual communication.

Designed with the modern-day artist in mind, this Fine Art and Illustration (Hons) at Coventry University will let you experience and gain essential skills and knowledge in two distinct art disciplines, while exploring new and exciting ways of combining techniques from both to create a body of work that is truly distinctive.

We focus on providing you with the support to find your unique creative voice, so that you can develop an amazing body of work to demonstrate your subject matter and individual identity to greatest effect. We will also teach you what to do with that work in order to pursue a successful career in the arts via a series of business and marketing workshops in your final year. These provide a thorough understanding of topics such as branding and presentation, marketing and social media, commissions and pricing, exhibiting, legal issues and ethics.

Career prospects

Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to produce professional outputs which can be exhibited in public and used to target publishers, agents, media organisations, competitions and potential employers.

There are a vast number of career paths that can emerge from a degree in Fine Art and Illustration, for example, our students increasingly adopt a portfolio approach to their careers, working on a freelance or commissioned basis. They have gone on to work as practising artists, freelance illustrators, gallery curators, designers and teachers. Patrick Simkins, now a freelance artist himself, went on to work as an official ÔBT StorytellerÕ artist for the London Olympics and Paralympic Games very soon after graduating.