Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination
Influences
A course by Leonor Pérez B. , Illustrator and Instructor
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you which have been my most important references and inspirations so far, and which are the works and authors that I admire and have fueled my work.”
In this video lesson Leonor Pérez B. addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination. Learn to mix different materials and discover new visual narratives that feed your creativity.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, I am going to show you some of my main influences. One of my biggest references is the Chilean illustrator Marta Carrasco. She is one of the few illustrators that existed for some decades in Chile. Therefore, many of the books there are from those years are illustrated by her. It has been a reference for many people of my generation. What I like most about his job is the ability to communicate with very simple records. Marta Carrasco's drawing is very subtle, very simple, but at the same time he communicates very eloquently emotional expressions, physical expressi...”
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Course summary for: Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Acrylic Painting, Collage, Drawing, Fine Arts, Traditional illustration
Leonor Pérez B.
A course by Leonor Pérez B.
Illustrator Leonor Pérez was born in Santiago, Chile where she also received her BA in visual arts. She taught children and teens for some years until finally deciding to dedicate herself solely to illustration. She then moved to Mexico to study the discipline at the UNAM's Casa Universitario del Libro, a trip that had a great impact on her career. She went on to study imagination and creativity and is currently taking a master's in education. She has worked for the vast majority of the publishing houses across Chile as well as collaborated with publishers in Mexico, the US, Korea, and Brazil.
She is a three-time winner of the IBBY Chile's Hummingbird Medal and her book Balada da estrela e outros poemas has won awards from the FNLIJ IBBY Brasil and the Catedra Unesco de Leitura PUC-Rio. Additionally, Leonor is a professor for the illustration diploma and continuing education program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
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