Travel Journal: Illustrate Your Reality
What Is a Travel Journal?
A course by Powerpaola , Plastic Artist, Cartoonist, and Illustrator
Joined December 2019
About the video: What Is a Travel Journal?
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you what a travel diary is and the possibilities they have, both the trip, the drawing and your own way of narrating. ”
In this video lesson Powerpaola addresses the topic: What Is a Travel Journal?, 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
“What Is a Travel Diary? Now we'll see what a travel diary is. A travel diary is a literary genre on which you note down, draw, write your sensations, emotions, you can draw them too. And the trip can be taken in several ways. You can take a plane and travel to an unknown place or you can go out on the street and walk around your neighborhood, your city, it can be in your bedroom, on an internal journey and using your imagination. We need two things for this. You can observe and draw or write what you see and describe what you see. You can also base it on old photos or books or search for im...”
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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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