Skills needed for this area

As I am currently studying BA Illustration, I think that the skills needed for this area would be:

• drawing

-getting ideas down, (thumbnails)
-final pieces
-life drawings

• computers

-illustrator
-photoshop
-indesign

• photography

-getting a photographic resource to help visualise the work that I am aiming to do

• general knowledge

-able to know what your doing and talking about in terms of evaluating and annotating or perhaps presentating