As a creative iscipline Illustration at RISD is broaly efine — by purpose, not meia. While illustrators employ the same tools use in painting, photography, film, graphic esign an other isciplines, they make imagery with the intent of conveying specific meaning an messages.
作为RISD的一个创造性学科的例证，它的定义很宽泛——是由目的，而不是媒体。
虽然插画家在绘画、摄影、电影、平面设计等学科中使用的工具是相同的，但他们制作图像的目的是传达特定的意义和信息。
Whether painting at the easel, rawing on a computer screen or making 3D characters, Illustration majors learn to master the skills an techniques neee for effective visual storytelling.
无论是在画架上绘画、在电脑屏幕上绘画还是制作3D人物，插画专业的学生都要学习掌握有效的视觉叙事所需要的技巧和技巧。
In mastering the ability to raw an paint powerful, meaningful images, stuents grauate reay to write an illustrate books, create surface esigns for proucts, work in web or game esign, become an animator or character esigner an communicate concepts through one of many other creative paths open to Illustration majors.
在掌握了绘制和绘制强大的、有意义的图像的能力后，学生们毕业后就可以编写和绘制书籍，为产品创建表面设计，从事网页或游戏设计，成为动画师或角色设计师，并通过插画专业的其他创意途径来交流概念。
Through a broa an iverse range of course offerings, Illustration majors engage in a largely self-irecte exploration of meia as they gain a soli unerstaning of contemporary themes an concepts. Faculty insist upon keen observation an strong conceptual thinking combine with the mastery of manual skills an techniques neee to convey ieas in a compelling manner.
插画专业的学生通过广泛而多样的课程设置，在对当代主题和概念有了深入了解的同时，也在很大程度上对媒体进行了自我引导的探索。
教师坚持敏锐的观察和强大的概念思维，结合熟练的手工技能和技术，以令人信服的方式传达思想。
