Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination
Observe and draw
A course by Leonor Pérez B. , Illustrator and Instructor
About the video: Observe and draw
Overview
“Next, we will delve into the practice of observation, a fundamental experience to sharpen the gaze, improve the capacity for representation and begin a process of creation.”
In this video lesson Leonor Pérez B. addresses the topic: Observe and draw, 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
“Observe and draw This lesson is an invitation to observation through drawing. Make an illustration of space, objects, situations, helps us to sharpen our gaze, helps us to improve as well representation drawing ability, the ability to observe itself and get away from stereotypes. When we do not make observation drawing, when we don't incorporate it into our practices, we tend to draw what we remember, what we memorize and some preconceived images that have nothing to do with what it really is. When we talk about observation drawing, we are not necessarily referring to realistic drawing, to ...”
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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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