Travel Journal: Illustrate Your Reality
Influences
A course by Powerpaola , Plastic Artist, Cartoonist, and Illustrator
Joined December 2019
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Now I want to tell you about my influences and references on the travel diary.”
In this video lesson Powerpaola addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Travel Journal: Illustrate Your Reality. Capture the moment by combining drawing and storytelling to create an unforgettable travel journal.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences Now I'll tell you a bit about my influences, although I will only show you some. One of my biggest influences is Julie Doucet who has more books than these, she has several diaries. One of her dreams, this one, which is her diary of New York and one that has 365 days, in which she writes every day. She's a Canadian author who does engraving. She studied Fine Art, but she got tired of the art world, like me, and decided to enter the world of comics in the '80s and '90s. She speaks about violence, drugs, sex, about being a woman in a man's world, especially in the '80s and '90s, th...”
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Course summary for: Travel Journal: Illustrate Your Reality
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration, Writing

Powerpaola
A course by Powerpaola
Powerpaola is a renowned plastic artist, cartoonist, and illustrator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her sketchbooks are part of a collection at the Luis Ángel Arango library in Bogotá, and her drawings and paintings can be viewed at the IDLB gallery in Buenos Aires. She has also published over eight books and exhibited her work in several countries.
Additionally, she was artistic director of the animated feature Virus Tropical, based on her eponymous graphic novel. She produced more than 5000 cartoons for the film over a total of 5 years.
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