Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination
Pareidolias 2
A course by Leonor Pérez B. , Illustrator and Instructor
About the video: Pareidolias 2
Overview
“I will continue here my exploration of pareidolias looking for characters and animals in my roles. The beauty of this technique is in the simplification of complex forms such as the human body. We will also see that pencils and other materials can be used to complete the exploration.”
In this video lesson Leonor Pérez B. addresses the topic: Pareidolias 2, 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 I will continue to practice pareidolia. I want to explore different possibilities for characters, maybe, be animals, people. I find it interesting too find different ways to represent living characters. Let's see, let's see among the pieces of paper that I was accumulating. Work with characters, look for animal shapes or human beings. Pareidolia is very interesting because it allows us to synthesize, find simpler shapes to represent a thing as complex as a body is. The palette that I have here, it's basically quite ocher, they are colors that are rusty, typical of an old magazin...”
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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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