Illustration BA(Hons)

With a focus on illustration, this course aims to help you to develop into an independent, creative thinker with the ability to create and deliver exciting visual communication and image-making through your visually engaging work. You’ll create storyboards and characters or environments for animation and games design on this course. You’ll also develop comic strips and build narratives for children’s books or make interesting and desirable packaging and merchandise. On this flexible Illustration degree course, you’ll be taught by tutors who have professional industry experience within art and illustration. You’ll be able to develop the techniques and skills required to pursue a broad range of careers within the creative industries. By studying Illustration at the University of Huddersfield, you’ll get to work from our state-of-the-art Barbara Hepworth Building, which features collaborative studio spaces, advanced photography and CAD studios and a high-quality digital print centre. During this degree, you’ll develop an authentic and personal visual language by experimenting with a broad range of media and processes, as well as established and emerging technologies.

IELTS 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5

International students: £17,600

UK students: £9,535

UK/Home: £9,535

International: £17,600

21 September 2026

28 June 2026

• University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, United Kingdom