Creative Illustration: Play with Unexpected Materials
Fanzines and artist books
A course by Adolfo Serra , Illustrator
About the video: Fanzines and artist books
Overview
“Next, I am going to explain the differences between an artist's book, an artist's notebook, a fanzine, an object book and an art book. ”
In this video lesson Adolfo Serra addresses the topic: Fanzines and artist books, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Illustration: Play with Unexpected Materials. Awaken your creativity with everyday items, from coffee to feathers or an apple, and create illustrations freely and without judgment..
Partial transcription of the video
“Fanzines and Artist’s Books In this lesson, I want to tell you a bit about the differences between artist’s books, artist's notebooks, book-objects, fanzines... I’ll give you a clue. There are no differences. Every week, tons of librarians and bookstore owners try to catalog or document artist’s books, fanzines, artist's notebooks... Labels dilute them. One of the they keys to be able to define or classify them is to go right to the artist and ask, “Is this an artist’s book?” Then they defer to that kind of classification. The problem is when there are lots of artists who are no longer livi...”
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Course summary for: Creative Illustration: Play with Unexpected Materials
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Areas
Creativity, Fine Arts, Painting, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration
Adolfo Serra
A course by Adolfo Serra
Adolfo Serra (Teruel, 1980) studied Advertising and Public Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid, but it wasn't long before he decided to follow his childhood passion for drawing by reconnecting with pencils and watercolors at the Escuela de Arte 10 in Madrid. Since then he's been no stranger to colors, papers, textures, and stories.
He loves to experiment with techniques, play with materials, and, above all, tell stories with his art. He considers himself a trailblazer of blank pages who maps uncharted territory with illustrations for children and young adults.
His illustrations have been featured at the Bologna Children's Book Fair (Italy), Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (Slovakia), Sharjah Children's Book Fair (United Arab Emirates), Ibero-American Illustration Contest (Mexico), CJ Picture Book Awards (Korea), and the International Exhibition of Illustrations for Children in Sàrmede (Italy).
His wordless version of Little Red Riding Hood has been published in Spain, Germany, France, and Mexico, and has won numerous awards. He also won the 19th A la Orilla del Viento Award for illustrated album from the Fondo de Cultura Económica.
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