Playful Illustration Techniques for a Visual Diary
What Is Pareidolia?
A course by Diego Bianki , Illustrator
About the video: What Is Pareidolia?
Overview
“To begin with, I will tell you about the concept of pareidolia, which will help you in collecting the objects. You will learn several tricks, including how to see and recognize the reverse of an image. You did not know? The images also have a front and a back. In the end, you will see how drawing can be transformed into a game.”
In this video lesson Diego Bianki addresses the topic: What Is Pareidolia?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Playful Illustration Techniques for a Visual Diary. Learn a creative approach to illustration using unconventional tools and techniques while exploring your style in a sketchbook .
Partial transcription of the video
“What is Pareidolia? Before we start working on the inside of the logbook, we will highlight a very particular concept that will accompany us throughout the rest of the units. This concept is pareidolia. What is pareidolia? Surely when you were little you looked for shapes in the clouds. Pareidolia is exactly that, finding recognizable shapes within other shapes. For example, at this table, we are now in the presence of a cloud. This cloud is a photograph of the sky that we can view from this straight-on angle, as we are doing here, but we can also play with the shape. Let's not forget that ...”
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Course summary for: Playful Illustration Techniques for a Visual Diary
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Colored Pencil Drawing, Creativity, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketchbook, Watercolor Painting

Diego Bianki
A course by Diego Bianki
Diego Bianki is an Argentine illustrator and founder of the publishing company Pequeño editor, which was named the best publisher in Latin America at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. He has authored books and written content for TV that has been translated into multiple languages and broadcast in countries like Germany, the United States, France, Belgium, Spain, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, Italy, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and Korea.
He also shares his passion with the world by organizing entertaining workshops and events for children and adults. On top of it all, he has written speeches and articles about editorial design, illustration, and editing, and his client lists includes major newspapers like La Vanguardia and Público from Spain and Clarín in Argentina.
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