Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination
Experience as a reference
A course by Leonor Pérez B. , Illustrator and Instructor
About the video: Experience as a reference
Overview
“In this lesson, we will see how to use all of our artistic sources and references to fuel our creativity. We will make conscious what inhabits us, such as memories, experiences, tastes and inspirations.”
In this video lesson Leonor Pérez B. addresses the topic: Experience as a reference, 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
“Experience as a reference In this lesson we will see observing personal experiences as creative content. In addition to the aesthetic references, our own experience is full of references. Our life, memory, memories, situations they can feed and transform in content for our creation. I consider that this content, in creative terms, it is very original, since it is a unique and personal experience. Unrepeatable. And we can turn to that to incorporate it into our work. For example, in this book that I made some years ago I worked with the memory of my family. It is a very important book for me...”
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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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