Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination
Pareidolias 1
A course by Leonor Pérez B. , Illustrator and Instructor
About the video: Pareidolias 1
Overview
“Starting a project from an abstract reference offers several creative opportunities. To explore this process, I'll show you how to work with pareidolias - this is a psychological ability to find recognizable elements in abstract ways. In this way, we will give space to meet new morphologies and graphic possibilities.”
In this video lesson Leonor Pérez B. addresses the topic: Pareidolias 1, 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
“Pareidolias In this lesson, we are going to work with paper wall paper and we'll explore what it means work a creative image from an abstract reference. Pareidolia is a psychological capacity that we have of finding recognizable elements in abstract shapes. This happens because the brain needs to understand what it sees. So when you see an item that you don't recognize, complete according to this base shape. This is a super interesting possibility to work creatively, since we can explore from these abstract forms morphological possibilities different from what we are used to working with. W...”
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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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